Daily AI Newsletter: OpenAI offering $10m/year package for top AI researchers

In today’s email:

👀 We've been flying blind until now
🏎️ A new version of GPT-4 Turbo is now live in ChatGPT
💸 AI could cause ‘catastrophic’ financial crisis, says Yuval Noah Harari
🧰 18 new AI-powered tools and resources. Make sure to check the online version for the full list of tools.

OpenAI is reportedly poaching Google's top AI researchers with $10m/year packages.

The recruiting fight between OpenAI and Google is growing fiercer.

As OpenAI proceeds with an employee share sale that would nearly triple the startup’s valuation to more than $80 billion, its recruiters are courting top artificial intelligence employees at Google with millions of dollars and a message: Join us now to lock in a stock package at the current valuation of $27 billion and benefit from the impending increase.

As part of their pitch, OpenAI recruiters have claimed researchers would have greater access to computing resources, including the specialized chips staff rely on to run experiments and develop new techniques for AI models, according to people with knowledge of the claims.

Financial Times: Study Shows that ChatGPT boosts low-performing employees the most

This Financial Times article discusses the impact of generative artificial intelligence, like OpenAI's ChatGPT and GPT-4, on white-collar jobs. Key points include:

Risk to High-Wage Jobs: OpenAI estimates that higher-paying jobs are more at risk from AI advancements. Those earning six-figure salaries are three times more likely to be affected than those earning $30,000.
Immediate Impact on Freelancers: A U.S. study found that after the launch of ChatGPT, freelancers in fields like copywriting and graphic design experienced a decrease in jobs and earnings. This suggests that AI is not only taking over some tasks but also devaluing the remaining work.
Varied Impact Across Skill Levels: The most skilled freelancers were not shielded from the negative impact. In fact, they often faced worse outcomes.
Productivity and Quality Increases with AI: A Harvard Business School study involving Boston Consulting Group employees showed that those using GPT-4 were more productive and produced higher quality work than those without AI assistance. The largest gains were observed among less skilled workers.
AI's Limitations and Human Collaboration: GPT-4 struggled with nuanced tasks requiring careful analysis of qualitative materials. However, employees who effectively integrated AI into their workflow ("cyborgs") or focused on tasks suited to their expertise while using AI for others ("centaurs") performed better.
Implications and Recommendations: The article suggests that regulation is crucial, particularly in unregulated markets like online freelancing. Roles involving multiple facets are less at risk of automation. Finally, maximizing the benefits of AI tools requires treating them as extensions of ourselves, actively engaging with and scrutinizing their outputs.

MIT Found the same thing earlier this year regarding call center agents:

We've been flying blind until now

Cool demo of OpenInterpreter writing the code for a UI just by looking at it using the new ChatGPT Vision API

A new version of GPT-4 Turbo is now live in ChatGPT

Other stuff

Exceptionally good overview of adversarial attacks on LLMs.
Introducing, Motion Brush by Runway
AI could cause ‘catastrophic’ financial crisis, says Yuval Noah Harari
Tutorial: Text-to-speech on Linux/Mac using Bash made by ChatGPT 4
How to Stop Feeding AWS’s AI With Your Data

Superpower ChatGPT 5.0.0 has been released. 🎉

The most powerful release yet with Prompt Chains, AutoComplete Menu, Quick Sync, Custom Instruction Profiles, and many more features.

Editor's Pick

Gobble Bot - Get all your content into one huge text file, ready to upload into your new GPT (overcome file count limits and speed up the GPT creation process )

Editor's Pick ✨

Sparkle ✨ A custom GPT that helps you craft storybooks and become a published author

Introducing Sparkle ✨, a custom GPT that helps you craft storybooks and become a published author!
It can:
- Generate a book with a page by page breakdown
- Provide amazing MidJourney prompts & illustrate with DALL-E
- Layout pages & much more!
Demo and full features below! 🧵
— Ammaar Reshi (@ammaar)
5:14 PM • Nov 12, 2023

ZeroStep - Supercharge your Playwright tests with AI

Extend - AI-Powered Workflows for Unstructured Data

YC Rejection - Share your YC application and get a YC rejection email

Shots.so - A free but powerful tool to showcase your project.

Vapi - an API provider so anyone can easily create a natural-sounding voice-based AI-powered assistant.

CONSOLE GPT - A universal game console on GPT + glif

Made a universal game console on GPT + glif: CONSOLE GPT 🤯
In order to play, you first *generate a game cartridge* on glif:
enter a game idea (e. g. "prehistoric survival adventure"), instantly get a cartridge (see below)
you then boot up CONSOLE GPT with the *image* 😅
— fabian (@fabianstelzer)
11:11 AM • Nov 11, 2023

TaxGPT - a chatbot offering tax guidance and advice.

DesignerGPT - Create simple websites directly in ChatGPT, hosted on Replit

Excited to announce my first custom GPT!
DesignerGPT 👨‍🎨
Now, you can create beautiful websites directly in ChatGPT, with natively support for dark mode 🌙
Websites hosted remotely via @Replit. 🌐
Link in the comments.
— Pietro Schirano (@skirano)
5:14 PM • Nov 10, 2023

InstaGraph - Converts natural language prompts into a visualized knowledge graph (text2graph)

GPT for US immigration and citizenship (visa, green card)

GPT for US immigration and citizenship (visa, green card)
You don't have to pay 10K$ for a lawyer to get an O-1 / H-1 visa!
GPT can answer me straight away using available info with LINKS! Check demo!
Immigration $lawyers$ are past?
chat.openai.com/g/g-LIb0ywaxQ-…
cc: @USCIStwitter.com/i/web/status/1…
— Robert Lukoshko — e/acc (@Karmedge)
11:31 AM • Nov 10, 2023

EverLearns - An AI-enhanced learning space for any material