ChatGPT's secret notetaker 🤫

Hi Non-Techies,

The Cornetto I’m currently eating is melting quickly in this heat, which means I’m racing to prevent rogue droplets of ice cream from reaching my fingers.

Sound the metaphor alarm, because there’s one coming: Eating this Cornetto feels a bit like keeping on top of AI news. It moves so quickly that, just when you think you’re up to speed, another huge update drops.

To keep our AI Academy members in the loop (or to help them avoid Cornetto-covered fingers, if you’re still hung up on the metaphor), we host a live session every Monday and send a weekly member-only newsletter, too.

I’m trying a similar thing with today’s newsletter. You’ll hear about three big AI news items that have unfolded over the last week. If you enjoy this email, you’ll definitely enjoy being an AI Academy member. Just click the button below to learn more:

Which jobs are the safest?

AI doesn’t have an actual Godfather, but if it did, it’d probably be Geoffrey Hinton (sorry Geoffrey, but that means you owe AI at least a few birthday presents).

That’s because of his pioneering work on neural networks, which is the Techie way to describe how AI learns and improves.

Last week, he was on Steven Bartlett’s Diary of a CEO podcast, where he was asked about which jobs are the safest from being replaced by AI.

“I'd say it's going to be a long time before it's good at physical manipulation…so a good bet would be a plumber.”

And the jobs most at risk?

“For mundane intellectual labour, AI is just going to replace everybody.” He picked out call centre workers and paralegals, in particular.

ChatGPT’s secret notetaker.

ChatGPT released a notetaker last week, but only on the desktop app. It doesn’t appear in meetings (which is a BIG privacy red flag, in my opinion) and drops the meeting notes in a ChatGPT Canvas (that’s the interface you get when you're working on something more complex).

I haven’t tested it yet, but Olivia Moore did. She shared her findings in this X thread.

To summarise, it’s not great...yet. It doesn’t recognise names, the notes weren’t that good, and it doesn’t autojoin meetings. No doubt it’ll improve over the next few months, though.

A celebrity endorsement for AIFNT?

I’ve always thought that Brad Pitt would love this newsletter. Now, using AI, I could probably make a video of him wearing an AIFNT t-shirt.

That’s using a tool called Higgsfield.ai, which is causing a proper buzz amongst AI geeks this week. They released a new feature that lets you easily combine your product with an image of a celebrity to create a video that looks scarily real:

Someone grab the tin opener, because this is an ethical and legal can of worms. Still, it’s no surprise that early users are so impressed by the tech itself.

Should I do these update-style newsletters more often? You’d be doing me a huge favour by responding to this poll and letting me know:

See you next week,

Heather