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Impact of ChatGPT on freelancing income

2023-11-11

NEW: Generative AI is already taking white collar jobs

An ingenious study by @xianghui90 @oren_reshef @Zhou_Yu_AI looked at what happened on a huge online freelancing platform after ChatGPT launched last year.

The answer? Freelancers got fewer jobs, and earned much less pic.twitter.com/kbtp8uDUPU

— John Burn-Murdoch (@jburnmurdoch) November 10, 2023

It is now so much cheaper to access intelligence on demand.

Humane

2023-11-09

Predicting it now: Humane will be acqui-hired by OpenAI to be their hardware shop within 24 months.

🐶 > 👶

2023-11-09

There are more pet dogs (~83 million) than children (~72 million) living in the United States.

Open AI Dev Day reflections

2023-11-07

I'm most excited about

• Longer context windows
• Lower prices
• Custom GPTs. I've got ideas that range from silly to serious that I can't wait to try out
• Text to speech – can't wait to try it out

Questions

• How should I be thinking about documents at the assistant level vs. the thread level?
• I assume the assistant level is more “core” knowledge… but how will this impact performance?
• Should I be managing the interplay here between “core” things and stuff that just passes through the threads?
• When would I choose to use the Chat API instead of the Assistant API?

Observations

• Between Chat / Assistant / GPTs there are a lot of different levels to play in
• The value layers (to me) seem to be 1) what unique data can you bring to the model from the real world and 2) what can you make it easy for the model to do in the real world (although this is less well understood so far).
• If I'm understanding custom actions correctly (and it's possible I'm not), then I believe that custom actions can only be leveraged by the CustomGPT that creates them. So as an example, only developers with access to the Instacart API could make ChefGPT that creates orders for Instacart. If this is the case, I think this is mistake If I have a service that can do interesting things in the real world (e.g., Instacart), I want to be a tool that can be leveraged by ~all custom GPTs, not just the customGPT that I create. I suspect that this will get changed over time.

I wish

The mental health of Georgia Farmers

2023-11-07

From State Affairs:

The Georgia Rural Health Innovation Center at Mercer University School of Medicine did an online statewide survey between January and April 2022 . The survey drew 1,651 people in the agriculture industry. It looked at their mental health and well-being. Here’s what the survey found:

• 29% of farmers said they thought of dying by suicide at least once a month.
• 42% of farmers have had suicidal thoughts at least once in the last year.
• 47% said they experienced loneliness at least once a month.
• 49% reported being sad or depressed at least once a month.
• 39% said they felt hopeless at least once a month.

Truly shocking numbers.