Tech Guide #3

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We are excited to present the #3 - December 2022 edition of Codepole's newsletter.

In the third edition of our newsletter and like in others we would like to present the most exciting news from the technology field that occured during the last month.

We wish you a pleasant reading.

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Codepole Explorer’s Team

Here are the technology news:

Why Google Missed ChatGPT | 3 min | Alex Kantrowitz | BigTechnology.com

The capable chatbot from OpenAI accepts questions—some intended for the search bar—and provides astounding conversational responses. It has examined code, discussed politics, and provided recipes with such skill that screenshots of its responses are now widely shared on social media. Google promised a future like this, but not when it is carried out by someone else.

“What Chat GPT is - and isn’t?” | 47 min | Benedict Evans | Danny In The Valley

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on analyst Benedict Evans to talk about Chat GPT and machine learning (5:00), how it gets things wrong (10:00), the “fluent bullshit” problem (12:00), whether this is a genuine breakthrough moment (15:20), what this means for humans (18:25), “prompt engineering” (23:00), humans as curators rather than creators (26:40), tech’s mid-life crisis (27:45), the future of “search” (32:10), using AI do make “no-code” software (35:00), where we go from here (39:00), and the illusion of creativity (42:45).

Where Is Data Going In 2023 - 3 Trends I Am Seeing In The Data World | 6 min | SeattleDataGuy

2022 is coming to an end and the data world continues to turn. Although the foundations don’t change, the unstable markets, interest rates, and looming recession are causing constant shifts in what the business cares about. Some businesses?are cutting their data teams in half to reduce costs as a recession nears. Others are looking to increase their reliance on data by improving data quality.

The Scoop: A Return to the Office (RTO) wave? | 9 min | Gergely Orosz | The Pragmatic Engineer

Dozens of tech companies are starting to have their staff return to the office. I talked with software engineers and managers at these companies. Are we seeing the start of a trend?

How Notion leveraged community to build a $10B business | 67 min | Lenny Rachitsky with Camille Ricketts | Lenny's Newsletter

Camille Ricketts began her career in journalism, at the?Wall Street Journal, in 2006. In 2010 she joined Tesla, where she worked in communications alongside Elon Musk. She transitioned into marketing and became the Head of Content and Marketing at First Round Capital and then went on to become the very first marketing hire at Notion. In today’s episode, we dig into community-led growth—what it is, and when and how to pursue it. We get super-specific on how Notion championed their most loyal users and built a passionate community, and the incredible outcome it had for the company’s growth. We also talk about how to create great content, and how content can drive growth for your business and brand.

Big Ideas in Tech for 2023 | 30 min | a16z | a16z.com

This time of year, the floodgates open to a deluge of best-of lists and end-of-year recaps. But we at a16z have always been more interested in what’s to come. We asked dozens of partners across the firm to spotlight one big idea that startups in their fields will tackle in 2023. From entertainment franchise games to the precision delivery of medicines, small modular reactors to loads of AI applications, here are 40+ builder-worthy pursuits for the year ahead, according to the a16z team.

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