I run an AI-first team.
If we’ve done something 3 times and we think it’ll happen at least 10 more times, we make a GPT.
If the payback period for a new tool is under a week, we buy it for a year.
If the payback period for a new tool is under a month, we buy it the next
ChatGPT is changing the game, and I want to share real things you can do with this AI system today.
Please save this thread and start testing this technology NOW so you’re ahead of the curve.
Google just dropped a 100% free learning path on Generative AI with 9 Courses 👇
Intro to Gen AI
Intro to LLMs
Intro to Responsible AI
Intro to Image Generation
Encoder-Decoder
Attention Mechanism
Transformers and BERT
Image Captioning
Gen AI Studio
Put EVERYTHING in your calendar.
Get it out of your head. Stop spending brain power holding things in RAM. Clear your mind.
Put in dinners, gym time, birthdays, commutes, brainstorms, writing, shopping, bill reminders, followups, appointments. All of it.
If you're only using ChatGPT, you're missing out.
Here is a SUPER simple way to start using OpenAI APIs (with screenshots and everything!) for all of my non-technical followers that want to use more of this tech.
A sobering thought on the speed of AI:
Something that took 50 eng, 4 PMs, and 1.5 designers 6-12mo to build in 2018/2019 can now be (mostly) done by two people in a few days.
And I know this because I led the team in 2018.
And a 2-person team just pitched me on it.
Gulp.
BREAKING: OpenAI Assistant is now available in the playground.
This is the most insane way to use natural language to program your own bot. Literally upload an entire textbook and build your own tutor. Upload technical docs and teach yourself a new program.
🤯🤯 🤯
I fed Google Gemini 1.5 Pro the last 8 quarters of Amazon shareholder reports and call transcripts.
Wow.
"What was an Amazon focus for 2022 that is weirdly absent from the 2023 shareholder calls and reports?"
Gave ChatGPT a list of interests. Asked for a list of jobs to consider.
Added that I was a woman. No additional info provided. New job list includes fashion.
Said I mistyped and was actually a man. No additional info provided. Fashion is replaced by engineering.
Cc
@OpenAI
🫠
New idea for authors and book publishers:
When you release a book, release a Custom GPT with it for all buyers.
Takes minutes to build (and days for a front end that you only need to do once). Upload the PDF of the book. Train a custom assistant with the API. Charge.
@OpenAI
Andrew Ng and Yann LeCun just hosted a 30min live webinar on YouTube discussing why the 6-month pause is a bad idea.
Here are some of the things they shared…
🧵
We need to share more about how teachers are adapting to ChatGPT.
One of my favorite new policies comes from Professor Ethan Mollick, Associate Professor at
@Wharton
.
What do you think?
I am at
@OpenAI
Dev Day in SF.
I was front and center for the keynote.
I have tweeted so many tweets.
But…
There is ONE BIG TAKEAWAY that you’re not going to see over the livestream.
One feeling that you only get in person.
And that is: compared to every other big
ChatGPT can help you with...
✅ Summary
Copy and paste an article, and ask, “can you summarize this article in one paragraph in a way that a 5th grader could understand it?”
ChatGPT can help you with...
✅ Planning
Think of an task you have and a reasonable timeline. Ask, “create a schedule for me to launch my new startup by May 1, 2023? Include deliverables, timelines, contingency planning, team bonding, breaks, brainstorming, and user testing.”
Plug-ins are dead.
The new kid on the block is GPTs, custom actions programmed through natural language.
The
@canva
and
@zapier
announcements from
@OpenAI
are UNREAL.
ChatGPT can help you with...
✅ Coding
Ask it to write basic scripts or even more qualitative questions like “what is the most efficient way to loop through a list in Python?”
But part of preparing for the future means understanding it.
And understanding it often means trying it, testing it, breaking it.
AI is not science fiction. It’s not a thought experiment from the 60s or a movie you watched in the 90s.
It’s here.
I have to give a talk on AI in two weeks and the tech is moving so fast that I’m just going to put it together the night before so it’s not out of date.
ChatGPT can help you with...
✅ Creativity
Think of something you want to shake up and ask, “I’m turning 40yo soon and want to celebrate my birthday in a way that incorporates my passions. I love BBQ and axe throwing. What are 3 ideas for a party that costs under $2k?”
Wise words from
@karpathy
:
“I don’t think it’s accurate to think of large language models as a chatbot or like some kind of a word generator.
I think it’s a lot more correct to think about it as the kernel process of an emerging operating system.”
ChatGPT can help you with...
✅ Writer’s Block
Do you have an email or blog post you’ve been meaning to write? Ask, “write a nice email to Tom - ask him if he enjoyed the offsite, then ask him to update his monthly report.” Use that as a foundation, then edit or tweak as needed.
Airbnb just announced its new remote work policy for its employees.
As someone who has lived in airbnbs the last two years, here are the lines that stood out to me the most… 🧵
It’s official: I’m moving to New York! 🚕
After a 2.5yr road trip across 70 cities, 12 states, and 8 countries, I’m excited/nervous to start my next chapter.
Send any art, music, and restaurant tips, and if you’re in the area (especially if you’re in AI), let me know 👋
ChatGPT can help you with...
✅ Motivation
AI is not a replacement for trained medical professionals, but if you’re feeling a little low you can ask, “can you give me three motivational phrases to help me get through a hard day when I’m low on sleep?"
Just published a 5500-word article on ChatGPT, what it is, why it’s important, and how professionals can use it in their daily lives 🧠
Give it a read here 👇
Claude 3 Opus is outperforming GPT-4 on basically all of my team’s prompts.
As measured, anecdotally, by:
- shock and/or awe at response
- correctness
- least amount of editing required
Way to go
@AnthropicAI
👏
And that’s just the beginning.
Is the tool perfect? Absolutely not. I’ve explored these flaws in countless posts—bias, data privacy, homogeneity, centralization, accuracy, reliance, plagiarism, job shifts, just to name a few.
Every room I give an AI talk to has a Jerry.
It’s an older Gen X or Baby Boomer that has been using ChatGPT (or similar) multiple times a day for over a year.
But notably: no one in their circle uses it. Not their family, not their company, and not their customers.
They’re not
This is what an AI-first interface actually looks like.
The grid lets users see each step the AI is taking, allowing “edits” to the AI's “thought process".
In 2020, I wrote over 500 pieces of content on:
📝 Getting started in AI
📝 Building ML
📝 Trends in ML
📝 Book recommendations
📝 Leadership
📝 Day in the life
📝 Productivity
📝 Fave quotes
Check out the summary! ❤️
I’ve written over 100 articles and posts this year on:
📝 Getting started in AI
📝 Building ML
📝 Trends in ML
📝 Book recommendations
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📝 A day in the life
📝 Productivity
📝 Quotes
Check it out! ❤️
My first big NYC moment.
Was in a CVS last night. Guy runs in and shouts, “My daughter just shaved off her eyebrow! Can anyone help me find makeup to draw it in?” I raise my hand and say, “I’m in.”
(We went with Maybelline soft brown.)
Looks like ChatGPT got a big math upgrade.
Anyone else notice this?
A year ago, it would just send a math problem to the LLM itself and fail pretty miserably.
Now it looks like (and this is a guess) there’s some math classifier that determines that it’s a math problem and
Houston Airport is a full-on
#GHC18
takeover. The whole airport is women in tech. Women on phones. Women on laptops. Women in pantsuits. Women in branded tech shirts. I am grinning ear to ear.
JUST ANNOUNCED:
@Microsoft
has launched Microsoft 365 Copilot to uplevel business users with AI.
And as someone who has worked in AI for almost two decades and hates Outlook with a passion (I don’t think I’m the only one), this is exciting 😉
Based on their launch video, here
OK -
@OpenAI
GPT Builder is the BIG NEWS 💥
You can make a private GPT, public GPT, or if you’re on ChatGPT Enterprise, you can build a GPT *just* for your company.
THIS feels like the actual Apple App Store competitor, not plug-ins. PLUS there is rev share to builders!
Ethan Mollick, Professor at
@Wharton
, is a brilliant educator on how AI is impacting the classroom.
He breaks down how AI is creating the “Homework Apocalypse” and how to handle each assignment type 👇
I’ve been mulling over “ChatGPT for Therapy” for the last 6 months, trying to figure out where an AI could actually help a ton.
I think I finally cracked it 👇
Amazing opportunity to help “ring” the
@Nasdaq
opening bell today 🔔
Here’s to more AI teams getting to do the same for years to come.
Photography courtesy of Nasdaq, Inc.
GPT-4 feels worse than it was a few months ago.
No fancy benchmarks, I just “UGH” way more often these days.
Most folks I know are using Claude 3 or Mixtral 8x7B instead.
BUT this is not a sign to ditch
@OpenAI
.
To me, this is because OpenAI is focused on the next model.
“You just changed my life.”
Was talking to my Uber driver and started asking him about his side businesses. He said he had heard of AI but never used it.
At the end of our ride, I asked him if he had 3 minutes to show him ways to improve his work.
(Here’s Caesar 👇)
I packed a bag and left San Francisco thinking I would be gone for one week. I’ve been gone three months. Not sure where I’m headed next. And that is awesome.
(And yes, this is an unpaid accidental
@subaru_usa
ad.)
Google needs a filter to only show results before November 2022.
I just tried looking up a recipe for Thanksgiving and half were AI-generated gobbledegook.
10.5MM
@LinkedIn
views and an equally insane number of likes and comments.
Thank you all for your excitement and support.
I can’t wait to share AI with the world.
Critical thinking has always been a top skill in the workplace, but with the rise of generative AI, it's even more vital.
Look at the difference between these two prompts and their initial respective answers from ChatGPT.
Lot of folks may not appreciate how far we’ve come since 2018 when it comes to NLP and doc parsing 😂
Lemme jog your memory:
- spaCy got non-English languages late 2017
- BERT wasn’t even published til Oct 2018
- Textract didn’t drop til Nov 2018, GA May 2019
- GCP DocAI 2020
The new AI-powered Bing is “sure” that Billie Eilish is performing in the Super Bowl tonight.
No media is reporting it.
Her instagram story had a photo of the field (from the seats) an hour ago.
OpenAI just released the ChatGPT iOS app an hour ago 🚨
I’ve already downloaded it and tested it.
Takes:
- no plug-in access, which is fine tbh
- haptics make it feel like a little AI is inside your phone typing the answer to you (kinda fun honestly)
- glad they added the
Encourage more women in your life to consider joining AI teams and companies.
I just looked at an AI company’s team page, and it had 1 dog, 2 women, and 46 men.
While enterprises business are focused on generative AI, many of the top founders I'm hearing from are focused on proactive AI agents that reason.
And guess what:
@ylecun
says to scrap and abandon generative AI as a means to get there.
(I know this MIT lecture video of his
Calling all women founders of AI startups! If your startup is built on AWS, drop me a DM or reply to this - let me know what you're building and how we can help.
Alright, Airbnb's new "online experiences" rock my socks.
Just took a Zoom drawing class led by Ben Ponté with two strangers. I don't draw, I can't draw, and I loved it.
Who wants to do the next one with me?
Okay. I’m going to hit 1 million followers soon, and I want to throw a virtual event. 🎉
Anyone out there a virtual event master and want to take this on with me?
Must love: AI, community, global focus, details, diversity, creativity
🏆 Unveiling my 2023 AI Winners 🏆
Note: There will be some overlap in these categories (ChatGPT could be in almost all of these) and inclusion on this list is not an endorsement.
Other thoughts:
- most responses took 30-40 seconds, with a few taking several minutes
- safety settings are a great UX/control addition
- doesn't do the "type as it replies" thing, it just replies all at once
- handled reasoning over long context length better than I've seen in
Why is enterprise AI adoption so slow?
INERTIA.
We can only learn and upskill and pivot and reinvent and retool and reorg and meet and make decisions and get budget and get alignment and test and scale and protect and (insert 700 other verbs) so quickly.
It’s one of the