Issue #106 - Simulating Uncertain Opinions

July 13, 2025
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In This Issue

  • What Caught My Attention This Week
    • Startups now implement features that ChatGPT hallucinates.
    • Academics overwhelmed by millions of papers published with AI.
    • UK first job applicants for teacher positions must do micro-lessons now.
    • American Federation of Teachers receives $23 million in funding from Microsoft, OpenAI and Anthropic.
    • Youngest Chinese entrepreneurs unfazed by job displacement caused by AI.
  • The Way We Work Now
    • Goldman Sachs piloting AI agent Devin.
  • How Do You Feel?
    • How people react to AI interviewers.
  • What Could Possibly Go Wrong
    • Let’s now simulate users with AI.

What Caught My Attention This Week

Startups now implement features that ChatGPT hallucinates.

I started receiving a serious number of “requests for comments” from the readers of this newsletter. Many of you, every week, send me links to news, blog posts, X posts, asking me to read the content and comment here.

You already read the news, obviously, and yet you want to hear my take on it.

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