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ChatGPT is Not Your New Employee
Harry McCracken: How I Finally Learned to Love ChatGPT
When I struggled to come up with a brief, clear headline for last week’s newsletter, I pasted the text into the chatbot and asked for suggestions. I liked one of its ideas more than any of my own, and used it in slightly edited form.
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Zombies on Broadway (365 Albums)
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Macs Already Run the Most Popular PC Games. No One Cares
Did you know that the top 2 games on Steam are available for the Mac? That's right, Counter Strike: Global Offensive and DOTA 2, which at any moment in time have about 2 million concurrent players on Steam alone, are sitting right there for Mac users to download and play.
Meanwhile, No Man&
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Beyond (365 Albums)
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Most Americans Would Take a Pay Cut for AI Assistance
Sara Korolevich: Insights From American Workers: A Comprehensive Survey on AI in the Workplace
This study is full of fascinating numbers, but I wanted to call out a couple in particular.
57% of American workers — 53% of Boomers, 49% of Gen Xers, 59% of Millennials, and 65% of Gen Xers — said they would take a
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YouTube as a Productivity App
David Pierce: The odd appeal of absurdly long YouTube videos that play nothing on purpose
In a way, I’ve come to see “24 hours + of pure black screen in HD!” as a perfect microcosm of YouTube. YouTube is part entertainment platform, part information library… and part tools repository. It can soundtrack your day, teach
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Dookie (365 Albums)
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evermore (365 Albums)
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Generative AI Podcasts Suck
Kate Knibbs: Generative AI Podcasts Are Here. Prepare to Be Bored
It’s unclear whether the audience will hang around, or if they simply wanted to check out something unusual and new; Hugo has released four episodes, and each subsequent installment has pulled a smaller audience than the last.
Of course views/listens are going
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17% of Twitter Usage Came from Third Party Apps
Andrew Logan: Two Texas Indie Developers Made It Big on Twitter a Decade Ago. Now They’re Fighting It.
about 17 percent of engagement on Twitter, historically, was through third-party apps
17% is actually much higher than I expected, especially after years of seeing many people dismiss third party apps as effectively just something
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Armchair Apocrypha (365 Albums)
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Mass Romantic (365 Albums)
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The Devil and God are Raging Inside Me (365 Albums)
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Holy Ghost (365 Albums)
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Delusions of Grand Fur (365 Albums)
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The Family Tree: The Leaves (365 Albums)
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This is…Icona Pop (365 Albums)
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No One Will Ever Write Again
iA: AI and the End of Writing
Soon, you won’t need to write much anymore. Artificial Intelligence will do it for you. With all the free time we will have, we could try to rethink how we learn, work, and how we communicate.
And:
As an employee, your job will be reduced to barking
