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ChatGPT is about to revolutionize the economic system. We have to determine what that appears like.

Whether or not it’s primarily based on hallucinatory beliefs or not, a gold rush has began during the last a number of months to earn a living from generative AI fashions like ChatGPT.

You possibly can virtually hear the shrieks from nook places of work around the globe: “What’s our ChatGPT play? How will we earn a living off this?”

However whereas corporations and executives need to money in, the doubtless impression of generative AI on staff and the economic system on the entire is way much less apparent. 

Will ChatGPT make the already troubling revenue and wealth inequality within the US and lots of different international locations even worse, or might it in truth present a much-needed increase to productiveness? Learn the total story.

—David Rotman

An early information to policymaking on generative AI

Proper now, generative AI is the factor that everybody is speaking about. And although the tech just isn’t new, its coverage implications are months if not years from being understood.

Regardless of all the present pleasure, generative AI comes with important dangers. Fashions educated on the poisonous repository that’s the web typically produce racist and sexist output. In addition they often make issues up and state them with confidence, and doubtlessly threaten individuals’s safety and privateness.

For coverage of us in Washington, Brussels, London, and places of work in every single place else on the earth, it’s essential to grasp that generative AI is right here to remain. Sure, there’s important hype, however the latest advances in AI are as actual and essential because the dangers that they pose. Learn the total story.

—Tate Ryan-Mosley

Tate’s story is from The Technocrat, her weekly tech coverage publication. Enroll to obtain it in your inbox each Friday.

The must-reads

I’ve combed the web to seek out you right now’s most enjoyable/essential/scary/fascinating tales about know-how.

1 The place do startups go from right here?
Silicon Valley Financial institution has gone, and with it, many founders’ hopes and desires. (FT $)
+ The collapsed financial institution has been purchased by First Residents financial institution. (Bloomberg $)
+ Bouncing again from a financial institution disaster comes at a value. (The Data $)

2 Elon Musk thinks Twitter is price lower than half what he paid for it
He alleges it’s misplaced round $24 billion in worth in simply six months. (FT $)
+ The corporate is taking authorized motion to try to discover the leaker. (BBC)

Three Microsoft thinks GPT-Four is displaying glimmers of common intelligence
Which seems to contradict what OpenAI’s CEO has been saying. (Motherboard)
+ How scared ought to we be of AI, actually? (The Atlantic $)
+ Baidu has canceled a launch linked to its Ernie Bot chatbot. (Reuters)
+ Large Tech’s gone on an AI hiring spree. (Economist $)
+ Generative AI is altering every thing. However what’s left when the hype is gone? (MIT Know-how Overview)

Four Apple’s staff are skeptical about its AR headset
Its $3,000 price ticket isn’t their solely concern, both. (NYT $)

5 The rise and fall of an FTX-backed crypto tycoon
However Alex Grebnev’s enterprise was kneecapped by conflict in Ukraine first. (The Guardian)+ What’s subsequent for crypto. (MIT Know-how Overview)

6 How China’s apps took over the US
The extreme competitors between Chinese language companies results in deeply compelling platforms. (WSJ $)

7 The US authorities’s Willow Challenge is riling Gen Z
The oil drilling deal is way from in style amongst environmental scientists, both. (Slate $)
+ Taking inventory of our local weather previous, current, and future. (MIT Know-how Overview)

eight How Ozempic impacts our relationship with train
Weight reduction isn’t the one aspect impact of figuring out, however its attract is difficult to disregard. (The Atlantic $)+ Tweaking your metabolism is not any small factor. (New Yorker $)
+ Weight-loss injections have taken over the web. However what does this imply for individuals IRL? (MIT Know-how Overview)

9 When is figure not work?
When it’s “faux work,” in line with TikTok. (Insider $)

10 Silicon Valley can’t get sufficient of espresso
Who is aware of what you’ll overhear within the queue for an oat latte. (The Data $)

Quote of the day

“We nonetheless have desires and we is not going to surrender, ever.”

—Sofia, a 22-year previous dwelling in Afghanistan, describes the willpower of girls and women dwelling beneath the Taliban to continue learning on-line to Reuters.

The massive story

Tips on how to save our social media by treating it like a metropolis

December 2021

Social media can typically really feel like dwelling within the best world metropolis on the earth. Nevertheless it’s additionally rotten. Uncooked sewage runs within the streets. Each every now and then, a mass frenzy takes maintain. To repair that, social media corporations must prioritize integrity design over content material moderation.

Integrity design is already taking place at some corporations, but it surely wants assist. Too typically, corporations block these groups from doing their work to its fullest when it conflicts with different firm priorities, equivalent to boosting engagement. Learn the total story.

— Sahar Massachi

We will nonetheless have good issues

A spot for consolation, enjoyable and distraction in these bizarre occasions. (Acquired any concepts? Drop me a line or tweet ’em at me.)

+ This oyster-loving thief’s Wikipedia web page could be very entertaining. 
+ I want nothing however the most effective for Friar Bigotón, aka Brother Mustache.
+ The lengthy, cringe-worthy historical past of Metallica’s most embarrassing meme.
+ Who doesn’t need to be mates with Pamela Anderson?
+ The enduring John Cooper Clarke on writing what might nicely be the world’s favourite poem is simply beautiful.