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In this issue, we’ve included a response to Phil, who wanted a bit of a deeper look into how AI can help build a resume and write a cover letter.
We’ll also look at a bit of hypocrisy from Musk (which is hardly a surprise), and other tasty AI stories. Without further ado…
In today’s newsletter:
Top News: Musk buys 100,000 GPUs, Alibaba’s AI chatbot, and AI contributing to water shortages
The Rundown: Pentagon using AI to look for satellite imagery, AI can crack your password, and ChaosGPT tries to destroy the world
Tips, Tricks & Tools: AI resume builders, AI-powered movie suggestions, and videos to viral shorts
You asked, we delivered: Phil, here’s your AI-resume-building tool, and a ChatGPT prompt to get precisely what you’re looking for
What’s your opinion?: Tell us what you want in the next issue: AI music, images or spreadsheets?
Top News 🔝
Three biggest stories if you’re in a rush
Elon has just purchased over 100,000 GPUs for use in a generative AI project at Twitter. The significant hardware acquisition comes just months after Musk publically recruited Igor Babuschkin, an ex-DeepMind employee and generative AI specialist. At this stage, news outlets can only speculate as to the potential application of generative AI at Twitter, but revamping the platform’s advertising strategy or augmenting its search function with user data seem likely directions for the project.
Bear in mind, Musk, of course, recently called for a 6-month halt on any AI research project which is more powerful than GPT4. So either his Twitter project isn’t planned to be that powerful, or it’s;
“Do ask Musk says, not as Musk do’s”.
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Daniel Zhang, Alibaba’s chairman and chief executive, announced the launch of the Chinese tech giant’s own version of ChatGPT - Tong YiQian Wen. Loosely translating to “seeking an answer by asking a thousand questions”, Alibaba plans to integrate its new AI across all its businesses. Initially, the chatbot appears to have similar functionality to less advanced versions of ChatGPT3, capable of assisting in email writing, meeting note-taking, and drafting business proposals. In the face of U.S. sanctions on exporting processing chips to China, China’s AI development appears to be significantly further behind that of Silicon Valley - at least on a public scale. Baidu’s recent launch of its AI failed to impress investors, and Alibaba’s AI capabilities remain to be seen.
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OpenAI’s flagship chatbot, ChatGPT, costs around $100,000 per day to operate, over $3M per month. The hardware processing units that run the AI also need cooling so they don’t overheat - cooling that comes from water. New research suggests that an average user’s conversation with GPT equates to the system using a large bottle of water to cool down. Given that ChatGPT is the most popular program in the world, and amid historic droughts in the U.S., experts have legitimate concerns about the almost immediate effect society’s new demand for chatbots will have on water supplies and the environment.
Chatbots use water even less responsibly than this idiot
The Rundown 🐂
Deeper dive into trending stories
Scale AI, Alexandr Wang’s $7.3B startup, made the 24-year-old the world’s youngest self-made billionaire by providing AI companies with human workers. (link)Sybil, a promising new AI, can detect early signs of lung cancer which are undetectable to doctors. (link)
Eric Schmidt, former Google CEO, isn’t on board with a 6-month pause on AI because it will “benefit China”. (link)
Microsoft’s Azure recruits generative AI to help The Pentagon find satellite imagery. (link)
51% of common passwords can be cracked in under a minute using AI. (link)
Eight hundred thousand job listings in the U.S. were AI-related in 2022, with high-population states like Texas, New York and Florida ranking amongst the most listings. (link)
Authors are being accused of using AI tools to write their material, even when they wrote it themselves. (link)
Thai man win’s the lottery after asking ChatGPT to generate four, two-digit pairs of numbers. 99 was his lucky winner. (link)
AI-generated news presenter debuts in Kuwait. (link)
ChaosGPT outlines a way to “destroy humanity”, “establish global dominance”, and “attain immortality”. (link)
China makes it clear that any AI they create must be aligned with socialist values and will not challenge the social order. (link)
The U.S. government seeks the public’s input on how to regulate AI, saying, “We have to move fast”. (link)
Depression and anxiety could be detected early, using AI and a user’s social media footprint. (link)
Tips, Tricks & Tools ⚒️
Discounts, trials and productivity-boosting hacks
ClipFM- Turn long videos into viral shorts with just a single click. (link)
ChatDOC - Chat with documents, get instant answers. (link)
MaiMovie - Use AI to discover movies that match your preferences with high accuracy. (link)
Vizologi - Get accurate answers to all your business questions. (link)
Monica - Customer relationship management AI tool Chrome plugin powered by ChatGPT. (link)
Rezi - The world’s smartest GPT-powered resume builder. (link)
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Thanks for your question and input, Phil!
We recently asked a dedicated group of AI Plug readers what they’d like to see more of in our issues.
Phil asked about using AI to help write a resume and cover letter - which is why we’ve featured Rezi in this issue.
Rezi will put together your resume based on your experience and target job.
Another tip, for anyone writing a cover letter, or using ChatGPT for anything, is to go ahead and copy-paste this prompt into ChatGPT (taken from Jason West):
I want you to become my Prompt Creator. Your goal is to help me craft the best possible prompt for my needs. The prompt will be used by you, ChatGPT. You will follow the following process:
1. Your first response will be to ask me what the prompt should be about. I will provide my answer, but we will need to improve it through continual iterations by going through the next steps.
2. Based on my input, you will generate 3 sections. a) Revised prompt (provide your rewritten prompt. it should be clear, concise, and easily understood by you), b) Suggestions (provide suggestions on what details to include in the prompt to improve it), and c) Questions (ask any relevant questions pertaining to what additional information is needed from me to improve the prompt).
3. We will continue this iterative process with me providing additional information to you and you updating the prompt in the Revised prompt section until it's complete.
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