AI is surpassing Human intelligence; How to become irreplaceable at your job!
AI meme of the week. The biggest opportunity since iPhone apps. OpenAI CTO Mira Murati's journey to the top.
👋🏽 Hey, I’m Nawaz, and Welcome to the “AI Shortcut.” This newsletter is a curated gist of what’s happening in AI—stories, advice, think pieces, interviews, and memes.
Let’s jump into our inaugural newsletter! To kick things off, we have three items,
AI Meme of the week
Interesting AI news and launches—check out how Mira Murati rose to be the CTO of OpenAI
Think piece on AI surpassing human creativity—find out how not to get replaced by AI.
AI news and launches
The Meteoric rise of OpenAI’s CTO Mira Murati—A Reddit summary
Generative AI—The Next Productivity Frontier by McKinsey
PlayHT2.0 launches state-of-the-art Generative Voice AI Model for Conversational Speech.
White House-supported DEFCON31 hosts thousands to find bugs in AI models
NVIDIA Launches a Superchip Platform for the GenAI Era
Is AI going to replace your job? Find out how to stay relevant!
Generative AI has left the world in awe. Thanks to Google’s research paper on Transformer models and OpenAI’s ChatGPT for exposing the potential of AI models through its innovative User Interface. While AI has won games against Chess Grandmasters in the past, AI’s ability to match human intelligence at a visual and conversational level was unheard of before ChatGPT and Dall-E-like models. OpenAI’s GPT-4 model seems to have aced the standardized tests landing in the 90th percentile.
What lies ahead?
Generative AI is poised to displace numerous jobs in the next ten years—from creatives like writers and musicians to knowledge workers like data analysts and customer support.
The Good news
GenAI & its associated products will forever be a tool at our disposal, and we’re faraway from AI singularity.
But don’t let that fool you. We still need to take measures to avoid getting replaced at our jobs. What steps can we take?
How to become irreplaceable at your job
AI cannot replace humans with mastery of tools, in-field subject matter expertise, and articulation skills.
Start stacking up on these competencies consistently. The ability to identify an issue in your field, articulate potential solutions, and showcase it in public is an invaluable asset—humans are unique at this and cannot be replicated by AI 😏
Ways to level up with AI
Play with an AI tool in your field of interest and post your learnings
Get a high-level understanding of how LLMs work
If you’re technical, brush up on the AI glossary and docs and build AI side projects.
Stay on top of new AI products and developments.
Work for an AI company like OpenAI or StabilityAI
The massive opportunity since iPhone apps
Think about OpenAI as Apple’s smartphone revolution in 2007 with its iPhone launch. Folks who understand OpenAI’s offerings can build a product atop this platform or sell an SDK-like service to the AI companies developing on top of OpenAI, raking in those big dollars. Or, if you’re highly tech-savvy, you could build an Anthropic or Cohere-like startup to slice a big chunk of the market share—although these are capital-intensive endeavors. Check out these YC-funded AI startups for domain & product inspiration.
What AI products and tools have caught your attention so far? How do you plan on capitalizing on this AI gold rush? Are you building anything in the AI field?
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Sincerely,