Good morning!

I'm an earth scientist and though we wrote most of our own data for our projects, I'd be very keen to hear your thoughts on how you feel it will change aggregating pre-existing data for research purposes. Or just science in general.

Also if I wanted to use the tool in my everyday research I'm currently doing, what would you recommend?

My favorite one has been Rewind (no affiliation to them). Unfortunately it's Mac only. It's basically a rewind button + search bar for everything you see on your screen and everything that gets picked up by your microphone. Everything happens locally and it's pretty fast, but I had to disable it because my poor Macbook Air couldn't handle it. I'm sure it will improve in time.

So in my case, if I'm trying to reproduce a bug and I forgot what I did, I just swipe to rewind and play it back. Also being able to search every text that ever appeared on your screen is pretty insane. If you had told me 2 years ago that this would be possible today I wouldn't have believed you. That's why when someone tells me how AI can't do this or that, my answer is to check back in 2 weeks.

If you were to start a side hustle using AI tooks, what would it be and which tools would you use?

Did you come across any tools that attempted to mimic a type of humour (stylistic - like, observational; or cultural - British)? How successful were they?

How do I keep AI out of my life as much as possible?

As a designer in both industrial design and UX design, I’ve seen talk in the community expressing everything from fear of being replaced by AI to brushing off AI as a “neat gimmick” (both opinions I think are quite misinformed). IMO, AI is going to be incredibly impactful in this field, and the best thing for designers to do is find out how best to integrate it into their workflow.

My current issue with tools I’ve seen is lack of control. The results seem too unpredictable at this point. Are there any AI tools right now that allow a better degree of intentionality on part of the designer? For example, I’m thinking if an industrial designer wants to sketch a new backpack concept - they draw the general shape/outline of what they want, then feed a moodboard or reference images into the tool, and it spits out versions of a backpack that follow the outline as a guide but with the material and aesthetic from the reference images. Then if they don’t like a specific area, they highlight it and can make specific modifications.

Is AI always powered by neural network based computations? Or some tools use different approaches?

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Salut!

Yes, I use Github Copilot on a daily basis and I couldn't live without it. Every developer I've spoken to in real life shares the same opinion (it's so good that people are paying for it out of pocket, not even waiting for their companies to buy it for them). Haven't seen this much adoption of a product by programmers since the early days of Slack.

Jasper is pretty good for copyrighting, it's built on GPT-3 but has a lot of extra functionality. I know some product and marketing people who are using ChatGPT for things that they view "low-importance" commercial boilerplate, pages like "Our mission", etc.

The most important tip when using ChatGPT (or Bing chat) is to specify the agent that you want to instantiate. Think of these chat bots as Simulators - they can be simulate both a good copyrighter and a bad one with similar difficulty, so it's important to specify that you want a good one :) I'm oversimplifying a bit, but remember that the chatbot doesn't know what world it's in and you need to help it help you, if that makes sense.

What has been your favorite AI you have discovered so far?

What AI tools do you recommend to help people learn (additional) languages?

I was talking to someone the other day about this. There are some tasks that AIs can do better than the average human and one of them is audio transcription. OpenAI Whisper is incredibly good at transcribing audio in multiple languages, even when the sound is pretty bad. It's really, really impressive. So it can already be used as a sort of "gig worker", where you give it the audio and it outputs the text (there are already a myriad of self-hosted solutions so you don't need to run the model yourself).

But if you're referring to the job in terms of everything it includes, things like working with your team, interacting with your boss, doing various real world tasks, we're not quite there yet. This might change in a year or two though. Also, some (perhaps an increasing amount of) jobs are reducible to gigs, so in those cases it's more clear cut.

What was the most socially disturbing tool or application you encountered?

Salut Andrei!

I have 2 questions for you!

1. As a software developer, have you integrated any AI in your workflow that has positively affected your work? Have you tried the AI bot on github?

2. What would you recommend to non-tech teams (hr, sales, marketing, etc) in order to start integrating AI into their workflow so that they can also use them and expand their knowledge?

Thank you,

No one can. It will be used for evil

Great question. Unfortunately deepfakes have gotten even better lately, to the point where people are using them to do things like fake celebrity endorsements. I think the cat's out of the bag and short of banning everyone from owning GPUs, there's not much we can do to stop things like deepfakes. Interestingly enough, requiring licenses for powerful GPUs was one of the proposals put forward by OpenAI, I can't find the document right now, so if someone has a link that would be appreciated.

I share the same opinion of Emad Mostaque, founder of Stability AI, who says that the best course of action is to make sure everyone has access to the tools, and educating people on how to use them and where the dangers are. I know it's not a magical solution, but I think the risks are even bigger if we don't build AI out in the open.

What's a job you can fully automate right now? Or what's the closest. I assume affiliate marketing or something.

What are the best free AI apps for art creation?

I wanted a 1 year MBA as I had 4.5 years of prior work experience. Hence, Europe and Singapore were the two places I was looking. Out of these I chose Singapore for my MBA because of language, location, program structure and post mba opportunities.

I haven't been a fan of AI since seeing some of the first deep fakes of famous people saying things they obviously didn't say. How can society ensure that AI is used for good and not evil?

Where did you get your MBA? And how’d you pick that program?

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I did get someone to refer me. This would’ve definitely helped me get the interviews. But post that I had to clear 5 interviews to get selected.

I am working on launching my startup and/or changing jobs to work at a high-growth company.