AI gets woke
Improve your AI chats, why everybody is selling their data, and how to generate ideas quickly
Apparently Apple has been developing an autonomous car for 10 years, codenamed Project Titan. I for one had absolutely no clue. Sadly the 2,000 employees working on it had no clue either that Titan’s time had come to an end until this week, when it did. Fortunately, a lot of them will be getting transferred to……… you guessed it, Apple’s new AI division.
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Master your AI communication skills
Prompting is the fancy word for telling an AI, such as ChatGPT, what to do. Literally just a more specific word for talking to an AI. Which is why I think the position (now in high demand by the way) “prompt engineer” is hilarious. Come on. You’re really tryna tell me somebody is an engineer in texting an AI chatbot? Sounds more like an AI psychologist to me. Are there texting engineers too? For real…
Disputable job positions aside, prompting IS a very real skill, and it does have a very real impact on the responses you receive from your conversations with AI. This is where Copilot Notebook comes in. Copilot Notebook is a new way of prompting (aka talking to) Copilot, Microsoft's leading AI model.
Currently, in Copilot, and other chatbots like ChatGPT, the interface is a text / messaging thread, the same as you would have with a person. With this interface, the conversations flows naturally, but it usually takes a few messages back and forth to get what you want from the AI.
With Copilot notebook, instead of a text thread, the prompt / input is displayed on the left side, and the AI response is on the right. Instead of sending new messages in conversation style, you can easily edit / add to the original prompt you sent.
What’s the point? By modifying your original prompt until you get the best answer, you’ll get a much better feel for what it takes to get a great output from an AI model on the first try. This is super valuable because down the road it will save you a lot of time in getting what you want from an AI fast.
The big deal
AI eats the internet
Bad news: A lot of your personal data is getting sold.
Good news: It’s just to robots, no governments or creepy stalkers.
Last week Reddit signed a deal giving Google access to all of its user posts and data for the nice sum of $60 million.
Shutterstock, Politico, and the Associated Press have all struck big deals to let AI companies use their data.
This week Tumblr and WordPress both announced they were in talks with OpenAI to license their data. The exact dollars haven’t been released yet but you can assume it’s gonna be in the millions of bookoos range.
What’s going on here?
In the race to build the biggest and brightest new AI model, one thing has become clear. AI companies need MORE.
More data.
More human-created data to be specific.
The more high-quality human-created data, aka blog posts, emails, websites, etc., that an AI is trained on, the smarter it turns out. This is why every company that owns a lot of human-generated content / data has just turned into a goldmine. And they’re all cashing in.
What does this mean for you?
Probably not much, but if you happen to be a prolific writer or creator with a large following, it’s not ideal, because it means these AI bots are getting trained off of your writing, to write like you, and you’re getting nothing in return.
For most of us average apes though, it’s life as usual.
Make life EASY
Boost your creativity with AI
This week’s life hack is a remix of the first one I ever did because I STILL think this is the most useful application for AI: Coming up with ideas. Lots and lots of ideas! Instantly!
To make it extra easy here are some ideas:
Date ideas
Meal recipes
Money saving hacks
Workout plans
Travel Itineraries
Gift ideas
Party themes
Team names
What to wear
Fun / stress relieving activities
How to meet people
Books to read
Movies to watch
The list goes on! And yes, I used AI to help come up with that list of ideas! It’s simply a waste of time not to because AI can generate so many ideas so fast.
The human brain works via connections. This is why it is very hard to look at a blank wall and come up with a good idea. But when you’re with some creative people bouncing ideas you can come up with one thing after another. Even if every idea ChatGPT gave you was bad, it would still be helpful because the rapid novelty spurs connections that enable YOU to come up with the BEST ideas!
To get started head over to Copilot and type: “Give me 20 different [insert category here] ideas! [Add specific details here]
That’s it for today folks. Hopefully you learned a little, laughed a little, and live today like there’s no tomorrow!
Smell ya later,
Joe
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P.S. Don’t get the title for this week’s article? Tumblr is a social media site, so if new AIs are getting trained off social media posts like on Tumblr oh you know they are about to be spitting out some woke garbage.
P.P.S. I actually initially had the title as “AI learns to flirt” because I thought Tumblr was the same as Tinder haha. It is not. Very different.