🤖 Don't Buy AI Snake Oil

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• Researchers aim to navigate the tricky fake AI around us

• ChatGPT is your new doctor

• Bernie Sanders speaks up about AI

• ChatGPT isn’t coming for software engineers

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Not all AI is equally impressive.

Some tools claim to predict job performance based on your facial expressions during Zoom calls, which sounds like something out of a sci-fi movie.

However, experts like Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor of Princeton believe this is more fiction than science.

These two guide us through the treacherous terrains of snake oil solutions that promise the moon but deliver only stardust.

They're debunking myths faster than you can say "neural network," focusing on predictive AI—tools that claim to foresee everything from job performance to psychological tendencies with zero proof.

Their efforts couldn't come at a better time.

As AI becomes more prevalent, it's common for companies and academia to make exaggerated claims about what AI can do. There are consequences for people's lives, such as job discrimination and widespread misinformation.

Narayanan and Kapoor suggest that AI companies should release regular transparency reports, similar to social media giants, to combat this.

These reports would reveal their AI tools' effectiveness and ethical implications and help shed light on a world that often operates in a data vacuum.

Let's face it: the problem isn't going away—it'll grow unless we apply the academic rigor and ethical scrutiny it needs.

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ChatGPT is graduating from essay generator to your unofficial, don't-actually-quote-me-on-this, WebMD.

Recent studies suggest it's better at diagnosing your odd rash than some actual doctors. Who needs a decade of med school when you've got a chatbot with a killer bedside manner?

Jokes aside, this is massive.

An Emory study found that the chatbot didn't make a single "grossly inaccurate" claim when dealing with eye complaints.

But ChatGPT has its quirks (occasional hallucinations, anyone?). Still, it's giving traditional symptom checkers a run for their antihistamines.

Are we trading one WebMD hypochondria for another?

Maybe, but with accuracy levels soaring, it's like replacing your garden-variety fortune teller with Nostradamus. It's not perfect, but it's progress. 

And progress pushes us from leeches and bloodletting to antibiotics and MRIs.

ChatGPT aims to improve access to medical research for amateurs without replacing doctors.

While some critics may be skeptical, ChatGPT provides a positive view of AI's potential to enhance healthcare beyond our current expectations.

Welcome to the ChatGPT health revolution—just don't cancel your doctor's appointment yet.

🇨🇳 China is sprinting towards new AI applications, which will affect the entire space’s business model and monetization

👴 Bernie Sanders argues that workers should get shorter work weeks if AI makes their jobs more efficient

🌆 AI takes a shot at urban planning, and the results are mixed

🍎 Teachers continue to double down on generative AI in their classrooms

✈ Drone warfare’s future is tied directly to AI development

🪧 Striking unions need to push the AI conversation front and center to garner more concessions

🌊 So, what’s the next wave of generative AI that we can expect?

🧑‍💻 Coders, don’t stress. ChatGPT isn’t coming for your job quite yet

• Easy Content - content strategy, planning & writing assistant (link)

• KBaseBot - from files & sites to chatbots (link)

• MindPal - build AI agents for your tasks (link)

• Ultra Focus - AI-powered focus timer (link)

• OneAudio - transform voice recordings (link)

• Auto Localize - localize your projects automatically (link)

• Inai - fix payment failures, drive revenue & reconcile w/ no-code (link)

• StockInsights - simplifying equity research (link)

In Honor of Fernando Botero

May he rest in peace.

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