Generative AI Weekly - Jan. 16, 2024
Ben Evans' tech trends, CES's AI innovations, AI's impact on economics, and advancements in text extraction signal a dynamic AI evolution.
- "Every year, [Ben Evans produces] a big presentation exploring macro and strategic trends in the tech industry. For 2024, ‘AI, and everything else’.
- Video here, worth the 20 minutes and highly recommended.
- Some really interesting hardware coming from CES (native AI device and operating system). Designed by Teenage Engineering with a really interesting operating system. If the "LAM" is as good as the demo suggests - we may be looking at a whole new way to interact with the web. It's early days (I preordered)!
- Navigating the AI Landscape of 2024: Trends, Predictions, and Possibilities and some interesting points on AI in Dave Kellogg's 2024 predictions (both worthwhile throughout).
- “OpenAI’s GPT Store Now Offers a Selection of 3 Million Custom AI Bots.”
- Generative AI for Economic Research: Use Cases and Implications for Economists
- I analyze how large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT can assist economists by describing dozens of use cases in six areas: ideation and feedback, writing, background research, data analysis, coding, and mathematical derivations. I provide general instructions and demonstrate specific examples of how to take advantage of each of these, classifying the LLM capabilities from experimental to highly useful. I argue that economists can reap significant productivity gains by taking advantage of generative AI to automate micro-tasks.
- This is not generative AI, but it is very cool. We are well on our way to extracting text for all sorts of documents easily (and soon with extraction + hierarchy), making things like analyzing many PDFs at once doable at scale.