How AI Changed My Life and Work in 2023

This Week

• How AI Changed My Life and Work in 2023

• McKinsey’s Year in Review

• AI in 2023 from Yahoo Finance [video]

• The future is here from Forbes

• The Year of AI from Satya Nadella [video]

How AI Changed My Life in 2023

I always knew AI would be big. I just didn’t realize how big.

The first time I used ChatGPT, I thought it was a quirky and fun way to ask questions. My first experiments with DALLE were comically bad. I struggled to get optimal outputs and find truly useful workflows. Every AI platform I used was clunky, and its outputs were subpar.

And then everything changed.

To find out what, read on at Medium.

McKinsey’s Year in Review

McKinsey curated 23 of their best charts. They cover AI, economic uncertainty, inclusion in the workplace, climate change, and more.

You can read the full article here.

AI in 2023

Yahoo Finance looks at AI’s influence in 2023, its adoption rate by major tech players, gains seen by AI-adjacent tech manufacturers, and OpenAI's shaky leadership in late November.

Watch here.

The Future is Here

According to Forbes, AI is still coming for your white-collar job. 

In comparative tests, GPT-4 scored higher than 90% of humans on the bar exam and the GRE. The LLM from OpenAI has scored impressively high on many standardized tests and has been used by millions of users in everyday tasks.

While predictions had warned of LLMs displacing blue-collar jobs, white-collar jobs are most threatened in the short term.

Read the article here.

The Year of AI From Satya Nadella

The pace of AI innovation in 2023 was astounding - but even more impressive was how people applied this technology to make a real difference in their careers, communities, and countries. Satya shares some of their stories in his end-of-year video.

Watch here.

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