In today’s newsletter:

1. 📖 The Recent Adoption of ChatGPT in Two Charts

2. 🤖 All AI Models Still Hallucinate

3. 🏫 Newsletter about AI: The Rundown

4.  🧠 How Far AI Has Come in 21 Months

5. 🎤 One prompt you can use at work today

Read time: 4 minutes

1. The Recent Adoption of ChatGPT in Two Charts

Research from the University of Chicago shows the adoption of ChatGPT across 11 occupations (the authors surveyed 100,000 workers). The full results are published here, but here are two main charts that I thought were interesting:

The takeaway is that the following three occupations are on top of both lists when it comes to adoption and intensity of use of ChatGPT: Software Developers, Marketing Professionals, and Journalists.

2. All AI Models Still Hallucinate

A recent study by Cornell highlighted the fact that the best AI models still hallucinate (i.e., they make stuff up with their outputs).

One of the co-authors of the study told TechCrunch that “At present, even the best models can generate hallucination-free text only about 35% of the time.”

That’s a significantly high number, and organizations still haven’t found a long-term solution to this problem. In the meantime, your best bet is to continue to use AI models as assistants, and not replacements (i.e. always double-check the output).

3. Newsletter about AI: The Rundown

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4. How Far AI Has Come in 21 Months

Ethan Mollick recently published an article on his newsletter called “Change Blindness” where he highlighted how much AI has advanced in the past 21 months (since he started his newsletter).

Here’s one example of using “Nursing School Leader” as an image prompt

Before:

After:

That’s a huge leap. Check out more examples on his post by clicking here.

5. One Prompt You Can Use at Work Today

Here’s a practical ChatGPT Prompt you can use at work:

For example,

Quick Update

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