Issue #53 - Clueless

In This Issue

• What Caught My Attention This Week
  • Yuval Noah Harari: it’s the first time in human history that nobody has any idea how the world would look like in 20 years.
  • JPMorgan Chase & Co. developed an AI tool that can cut almost 90% of human labor in analyzing and forecasting cash flows.
  • The US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) will start using AI to X-ray cars at the border.
• A Chart to Look Smart
  • Poorly done research suggests that text-to-image generative AI increases artist output quality but reduces novelty.
• What’s AI Doing for Companies Like Mine?
  • Amazon now turns URLs into product pages for its seller partners.
• The Way We Work Now
  • Five finalists in this year’s Pulitzer Prizes for journalism admitted to using AI to write their stories.
  • UK care providers have started using ChatGPT and Gemini to create care plans.
• How Do You Feel?
  • What happens if the value of our work goes down?
• The Tools of the Trade
  • A new Stable Diffusion LoRA meant for architects allows you to generate images of physical models.

What Caught My Attention This Week

Historian Yuval Noah Harari, guest on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, said something that too many people refuse to think about or admit: it’s the first time in human history that nobody has any idea how the world would look like in 20 years.