Generative AI Will Impact Labor Market and Have Notable Economic, Social, and Policy Implications

Generative AI or GTP (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) models will have notable economic, social, and policy implications. They will impact 80% of the U.S. workforce, with at least 10% of their work task affected. Around 19% of workers will see at least 50% of their task impacted. This is the main conclusion of a research paper posted online authored by four researchers at Cornell University — Tyna Eloundou, Sam Manning, Pamela Mishkin, and Daniel Rock. According to the research, the influence spans all wage levels, with higher-income jobs potentially facing greater exposure. Language Models (LLMs) — via ChatGPT or the OpenAI Playground — can process and produce various forms of sequential data, including assembly language, protein sequences, and chess games, extending beyond natural language applications alone.

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OpenAI Starts to Roll Out Plugins in ChatGPT

OpenAI started to roll out plugins in ChatGPT with a small set of users. These plugins, now in alpha mode, extend the bot’s functionality by connecting ChatGPT to third-party applications. The plugins enable ChatGPT to interact with APIs defined by developers, performing a wide range of actions, such as: Retrieve real-time information; e.g., sports scores, stock prices, the latest news Retrieve knowledge-base information; e.g., company docs, personal notes Perform actions on behalf of the user; e.g., booking a flight, ordering food They are available to developers on the waitlist. The stated goal of OpenAI is to build a community of plugin developers. To foster the creation of new plugins, OpenAI has open-sourced a “retrieval” plugin that enables ChatGPT to access snippets of documents from data sources like files, notes, emails, or public documentation by asking questions in natural language. [Documentation] The first plugins have been created by Expedia, FiscalNote, Instacart, KAYAK, Klarna, Milo, OpenTable, Shopify, Slack, Speak, Wolfram, and Zapier. The OpenTable plugin allows the chatbot to search across restaurants for available bookings, for example, while the Instacart plugin lets ChatGPT place orders from local stores. Zapier connects with apps like Google Sheets, Trello, and Gmail to trigger productivity tasks. The most intriguing plugin would be OpenAI’s first-party web-browsing plugin, which would allow ChatGPT to draw data from around the web, as its knowledge is limited today to info prior to 2021. An AI startup called WebGPT built a plugin with access to the live web. Beyond the web plugins, OpenAI released a code interpreter for ChatGPT that provides the chatbot with a working Python interpreter in a sandboxed, firewalled environment along with disk space. It supports uploading files to ChatGPT and downloading the results; OpenAI says it’s particularly useful for solving mathematical problems, doing data analysis and visualization, and converting files between formats. ChatGPT is going to be the new App Store. This is it's iPhone moment. Look at these MASSIVE list of ChatGPT Plugins for almost every use. pic.twitter.com/ueduZN9OH5 — Barsee 🐶 (@heyBarsee) March 26, 2023

Canva Unveils New AI-Powered Design Tools

Visual communication platform Canva, which touts 120 million users, announced today a host of new AI-powered design tools and a new Brand Hub. "Ten years ago, we launched Canva driven by a vision to empower everyone to design anything, no matter their skills or experience," said Canva co-founder and CEO Melanie Perkins in a statement. "Today, the huge advancements we're seeing with artificial intelligence have given us the opportunity to once again reimagine the design process." • Assistant lets users search for design elements and gives recommendations on graphics and styles that match existing designs. It also provides access to Magic Write, the platform AI copyright assistant launched in December used for writing website copy, presentation summaries, and ideas. • Canva has also launched a new way to automatically generate presentations. • A new “Magic Edit” feature lets add or replace anything in an image. A “Magic Eraser” feature allows users to clean up unwanted details in images by brushing over the area. • Canva's new “Beat Sync” automatically matches video footage to a soundtrack, along with a new “Translate” feature that automatically translates text in designs to over 100 different languages. In addition to the new AI-powered tools, Canva is introducing a set of new features that it says users have requested: — “Draw” lets users sketch a simple shape, like a circle, and then have it transform into a polished circle. — “Layouts” allows users to add content to a page and get recommendations for layout ideas for a design — “Styles” gives users the ability to browse suggested color palettes and fonts. — “Layers” tool can be used to see all elements in one place, including text, shapes, images, and video. At #CanvaCreate, we just unveiled how we’re supercharging the Visual Suite with magic. These AI-powered features will make designing quicker, easier, and a whole lot more magical. https://t.co/VPlxhhMy7B — Canva (@canva) March 23, 2023 Introducing Brand Hub. With these new features, you can easily design, organize, and share the assets you need to create on-brand content. It's the home for every brand. #CanvaCreatehttps://t.co/FcAg42mCI8 — Canva (@canva) March 23, 2023 Say goodbye to manual editing and hello to Beat Sync. Unveiled at #CanvaCreate, this new feature will automatically match your video footage to your soundtrack. pic.twitter.com/0WHe7Sd7f5 — Canva (@canva) March 23, 2023 Drumroll please 🥁 Magic Eraser just announced at #CanvaCreate. Make your subject stand out and clean up unwanted details in your images, just like this 👇 pic.twitter.com/sR9zVtFp0t — Canva (@canva) March 23, 2023 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSJTA9BG-ds

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GitHub Launches an Upgraded AI Assistant for Developers, Copilot X, With GPT-4

IBL News | New York The GitHub Copilot programming app, owned by Microsoft, is being upgraded to use OpenAI's latest GPT-4 language model, as the owner company Microsoft announced yesterday. The new version, called Copilot X, can provide explanations of what segments of code are meant to do, create ways to test the code and propose fixes for bugs. Developers can sign up for a waitlist to preview the new service. "With AI available at every step, we can fundamentally redefine developer productivity; we are reducing boilerplate and manual tasks and making complex work easier across the developer lifecycle," wrote Thomas Dohmke from GitHub. "GitHub Copilot is already writing 46% of code and helps developers code up to 55% faster."  

Anthropic Launched 'Claude' A More Ethical Bot That Competes With ChatGPT

Anthropic, a Google-backed startup co-founded by ex-OpenAI employees, launched a chatbot called Claude that competes directly with offerings from Microsoft Corp-backed OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT. The company, run by a former OpenAI researcher, Dario Amodei, said that it wants to be more ethical than ChatGPT, producing less harmful outputs. Anthropic explained it gave Claude a set of principles at the time the model is "trained" with vast amounts of text data. Rather than trying to avoid potentially dangerous topics, Claude is designed to explain its objections based on its principles. The pricing of Claude has not been detailed yet, although two versions are available via an API, Claude and a faster Claude Instant. Like ChatGPT, Claude can be instructed to perform a range of tasks, such as answering questions, writing, summarizing, translating, explaining complex concepts, searching across documents, editing legal contracts, and coding. Anthropic has been quietly testing Claude with launch partners, including Robin AI, AssemblyAI, Notion AI, Quora, and DuckDuckGo. Both Quora’s Poe chatbot and DuckDockGo use a combination of GPT-4 and Claude+, currently the two most advanced language models in the market. Experts said that Claude is reportedly worse at math and a poorer programmer than ChatGPT, and it equally hallucinates. Recently, Google pledged $300 million in Anthropic for a 10% stake in the startup. Under the terms of the deal, Anthropic agreed to make Google Cloud its “preferred cloud provider.” Large language models are algorithms that are taught to generate text by feeding them human-written training text. In recent years, researchers have obtained much more human-like results with such models by drastically increasing the amount of data fed to them and the amount of computing power used to train them.

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