AI INSIGHTS

Hello and Welcome to the 9th Edition of the AI Insights Newsletter

AI and Career Development

I shared how you can use AI, specifically ChatGPT, to help with career development. Here is the video with 3 key prompts to help you.

Invideo and Synthesia

This week, I am absolutely in love with Invideo AI! The free version allows you to simply input a script and receive a professional video complete with narration and background music. The cherry on top is the voice clone option (Paid), which lets me use my own voice without having to sit and read the script myself.

I tried Synthesia this week and so you see Ines gave the introduction. I had hoped that I could use it for my training videos instead of me but the best I could get was 30 minutes a month or 360 minutes with the annual option. With AI moving as fast as it is, I cant pour all that money into one tool when another one is bound to come along. I will simply use up all my 30 minutes for the next 3 weeks I have left of it. Viznod is a competitor, but they don’t give you much in minutes either.

Don’t want to use ChatGPT?

Try these tools instead:

·?????? Huggingface Huggingface.co

·?????? Bing (Now Copilot)

·?????? Perplexity AI – pplx.ai

·?????? ChatGPT for Excel - numerous.ai

·?????? GPT for Images - stockimg.ai

·?????? GPT for Charts - chartgpt.dev

·?????? GPT for Students - paperpal.com

·?????? GPT for Video - pixverse.ai

Copilot's challenges and solutions:

Microsoft's Copilot, designed to improve productivity within its suite of business applications, has faced comparisons to OpenAI's ChatGPT, and they have not been favorable.

Users expect the swift and comprehensive responses characteristic of ChatGPT, but find Copilot's performance lacking. Microsoft counters this by highlighting Copilot's unique function: blending OpenAI's GPT technology with specific, private customer data to provide personalized support. This integration, while beneficial for data sensitivity and specificity, limits Copilot's speed and breadth of response compared to the internet-wide training of ChatGPT.

The discrepancy is partly attributed to users' challenges with prompt engineering—the crafting of effective queries to guide AI responses. I agree with this because I subscribe to CoPilot Pro and often find the results better than ChatGPT 4. The user interface is much better, but then again, I like shiny, new things.

To address these issues, Microsoft has initiated educational efforts, including partnering with BrainStorm to produce training videos on prompt crafting and developing internal support within the Copilot product. A notable point of confusion is the distinction between Copilot's "work" version, which uses internal data for specific tasks, and its "web" version, akin to ChatGPT's broad internet-based responses. Microsoft plans to introduce a toggle switch to help users understand and navigate between the two versions, emphasizing Copilot's role as a tailored AI assistant that combines the best of AI technology, the web, and business data to offer unprecedented productivity enhancements in the workplace.

What? Claud 3 > ChatGPT ?

In the ongoing LLM competition, Anthropic's Claude 3 Opus LLM has surpassed OpenAI's GPT-4, which was formerly the top-ranked model on the Chatbot Arena leader board. This?is a notable milestone in the history of AI language models, with Anthropic's smaller model, Haiku, also receiving recognition.

Amid the excitement, the AI community is experiencing a period of disillusionment, as they confront the limitations of generative AI, including errors and ethical issues. The departure of key staff from startups such as Inflection AI and Stability AI underscores the challenges facing the industry.

Nevertheless, there is hope for the future of generative AI, with a focus on improving models, ensuring fair compensation for data usage, and enhancing human-AI interactions, though this will require further investment and development time.

When your Chatbot is your friend

I can relate to this a tiny bit because I have arguments with my Chatbots from time to time but mine ignore me.

Sociologist Sherry Turkle, during a Harvard Law School talk, raised concerns about the increasing reliance on generative AI chatbots for companionship and advice, arguing this trend could further impair human empathy and the ability to form meaningful interpersonal connections.

Turkle, said that people prefer digital interactions over face-to-face conversations to avoid vulnerability. She says that this shift towards digital communication undermines the development of intimacy and empathy, elements crucial to human relationships and workplace productivity.

Turkle's insights warn of the deepening impact of technology on social health and the essence of human interaction.