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AI Operations and AI Engineer: The New Careers AI Is Creating

On today's episode, NLW explores the ways AI is changing people's career paths. In particular, he examines two entirely new roles -- the AI Engineer and AI Operations -- and what they mean for you. Links: https://www.semafor.com/article/10/04/2023/ai-is-spurring-the-rise-of-the-novice-coder https://www.latent.space/p/ai-engineer https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/1674873002314563584 https://news.theaiexchange.com/p/premium-defining-ai-operations-new-cohorts-announced https://twitter.com/rachel_

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The AI Daily Brief

What's Next in Phase Two of Generative AI?

In today's episode, NLW picks up where yesterday leaves off with a discussion of what's coming down the piepleine in generative AI, and why the integration of products into our daily lives seems more important than ever. TAKE OUR SURVEY ON EDUCATIONAL AND LEARNING RESOURCE CONTENT: https://bit.ly/aibreakdownsurvey ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: https://theaibreakdown.beehiiv.co

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The End of the First Phase of Generative AI

A reading and exploration of Prof. Ethan Mollick's The shape of the shadow of The Thing https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/the-shape-of-the-shadow-of-the-thing The piece argues that a vision of artificial intelligence is coming into view, if haltingly, and that we're near to the end of the first phase of generative AI, which was kicked off by ChatGPT. TAKE OUR SURVEY ON EDUCATIONAL AND LEARNING RESOURCE CONTENT: https://bit.ly/aibreakdownsurvey ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you un

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The AI Daily Brief

The Epik AI Yearbook Trend Taking Over Social Media

Epik's AI Yearbook photos are everywhere you look. In this video, NLW explores why AI avatar apps keep going viral. Before that on the Brief: OpenAI is considering making its own AI chips. TAKE OUR SURVEY ON EDUCATIONAL AND LEARNING RESOURCE CONTENT: https://bit.ly/aibreakdownsurvey ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: https://theaibreakdown.beehiiv.com/subscribe Subscribe to The AI

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AI's Integration Phase: Canva Launches Slate of AI Features

AI is moving to a phase of integration where companies are figuring out how to bring AI tools into existing user workflows. Case in point, today NLW discusses Google Assistant getting a Bard upgrade and goes through a slate of new AI features from Canva. TAKE OUR SURVEY ON EDUCATIONAL AND LEARNING RESOURCE CONTENT: https://bit.ly/aibreakdownsurvey ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter:

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Anthropic Raising at a $20B-$30B Valuation

Just a couple weeks after announcing their big Amazon deal, Anthropic is out fundraising again with a $2B round that is reported to have Google's involvement and is seeking a $20B-$30B valuation. Before that on the Brief, a Mr. Beast deepfake ad scam; Morgan Stanley says 40% of workers impacted by AI in the next 3 years, and more. TAKE OUR SURVEY ON EDUCATIONAL AND LEARNING RESOURCE CONTENT: https://bit.ly/aibreakdownsurvey ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most im

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The AI Daily Brief

The AI Wearable Wars

Tab and Rewind Pendant both announced AI wearables this week, while Humane premiered on a fashion runway. In this episode, NLW looks at the emerging wearable wars, and asks whether these are even use cases that people want? Before that on the Brief: Jamie Dimon says a 3.5-day workweek is possible and Satya Nadella testifies that AI can't stop Google's search dominance. TAKE OUR SURVEY ON EDUCATIONAL AND LEARNING RESOURCE CONTENT: https://bit.ly/aibreakdownsurvey ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Bre

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The AI Daily Brief

Mobile LLMs? The Battle to Get AI on Our Phones

Stability AI has released a new 3b model that outperforms some 7b and 20b models, and previews the forthcoming battle to get local LLMs on our mobile devices. Before that on the Brief: DALL-E 3 is available now for free for Bing users, with 100 speed boosts per week; Apple appears to be hiring for AI roles in the United Kingdom. TAKE OUR SURVEY ON EDUCATIONAL AND LEARNING RESOURCE CONTENT: https://bit.ly/aibreakdownsurvey ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most impo

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The AI Daily Brief

Warriors, Doomsayers, Reformers: Understanding the Factions in AI

NLW explores an argument from a recent essay around the three factions that drive discourse in artificial intelligence. He reads excerpts from "The A.I. Wars Have Three Factions, and They All Crave Power" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/28/opinion/ai-safety-ethics-effective.html and then discusses what the authors might have missed. TAKE OUR SURVEY ON EDUCATIONAL AND LEARNING RESOURCE CONTENT: https://bit.ly/aibreakdownsurvey ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most

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The AI Daily Brief

Are Copyright Battles Against AI Destined to Fail?

NLW looks at three arguments around AI and copyright and why the current contentious approach being taken by some authors, publishers, and policymakers may not hold up long term. Including excerpts from: Does the First Amendment Confer a ‘Right to Compute’? The Future of AI May Depend on It - https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/does-the-first-amendment-confer-a-right-to-compute-the-future-of-ai-may-depend-on-it/ The Copyright Office is making a mistake on AI-generated art https://arstechn

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The AI Daily Brief

ChatGPT Vision: 8 Ways People Are Using It Already

ChatGPT Vision hasn't even been broadly rolled out yet and already people who do have access are showing off some amazing use cases. Before that on the Brief: have the AI phone wars begun? TAKE OUR SURVEY ON EDUCATIONAL AND LEARNING RESOURCE CONTENT: https://bit.ly/aibreakdownsurvey ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: https://theaibreakdown.beehiiv.com/subscribe Subscribe to The AI B

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The 5 Most Important AI Announcements from Meta Connect

Yesterday at Meta Connect, Mark Zuckerberg announces that AI was going everywhere across the Meta suite of apps including Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp. NLW counts down the top 5 new features. Before that on the Brief: ChatGPT's ability to browse the internet is back; Biden talks about his forthcoming executive order on AI and a survey of 1600 scientists. Today's Sponsor Netsuite | The leading business management software | Get no interest and no payments for 6 months https://netsuite.com/b

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