🐇 Venture Funding Decline Despite AI Interest & OpenAI's Pioneering Initiative

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Here’s today’s summary:

🧐 C-Suite Expresses Concern Over Generative AI Amidst Rising Adoption
🎓 Stanford University Witnesses Doubling of AI-related Courses Amidst Tech Boom
📈 Searches for 'AI Jobs' Quadruple 'Crypto Jobs' in 2023
📉 AI Unsuccessful in Reversing Q2 Global Venture Funding Dip
🚀 OpenAI Unveils the Superalignment Initiative
🐦 Hottest Tweets
🧰 How to Scrape and Summarize Links for Free
🤏 The Curator’s Picks

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1. 🧐 C-Suite Expresses Concern Over Generative AI Amidst Rising Adoption

A survey by Insight Enterprises and The Harris Poll shows a surge in the utilization of generative AI by businesses, with a remarkable 72% of Fortune 500 leaders planning to harness its power for productivity in the coming three years. However, quality control and safety concerns still loom, with approximately 50% of respondents expressing reservations. It's anticipated that generative AI will affect certain organizational roles, as agreed upon by 90% of the surveyed business leaders.

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2. 🎓 Stanford University Witnesses Doubling of AI-related Courses Amidst Tech Boom

Following OpenAI's ChatGPT launch, the AI fascination has gripped Stanford University, resulting in the doubling of AI-related courses within the last half-decade. This increased interest has permeated various academic fields, leading to a broadened exploration of AI's societal, political, and philosophical impacts. The surge in AI democratization has sparked a debate about the future of coding, though students perceive AI as a tool for enhancing critical thinking.

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3. 📈 Searches for 'AI Jobs' Quadruple 'Crypto Jobs' in 2023

Cryptocurrency data aggregator CoinGecko's latest study reports a significant increase in "AI jobs" searches, surpassing "crypto jobs". The launch of ChatGPT in November 2022 led to a drastic rise in "AI jobs" searches, hitting almost five times the peak number of "crypto jobs" searches in 2023. Singapore takes the lead in the highest search interest for both "AI jobs" and "crypto jobs".

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4. 📉 AI Unsuccessful in Reversing Q2 Global Venture Funding Dip

Q2 2023 saw a significant drop in global venture funding, marking an 18% dip from Q1 and a 49% fall from Q2 2022, totaling $65 billion. Although this reflects a broader trend of funding decline, AI-related ventures have been a beacon of hope, drawing almost a fifth of all venture funding for the year. Late-stage funding has been hit the hardest, recording the lowest quarter since 2018.

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5. 🚀 OpenAI Unveils the Superalignment Initiative

OpenAI is spearheading a project to tackle the challenges of superintelligence alignment, ensuring that AIs smarter than humans align with human intentions. The plan involves building an automated alignment researcher of about human-level intelligence and iteratively aligning superintelligence using scalable training, model validation, stress testing, and adversarial testing methods. OpenAI has committed 20% of its secured compute for the next four years towards achieving this ambitious goal.

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🐦 Hottest AI Twitter Posts

Chart of ChatGPT’s traffic throughout last 8 months

OpenAI will release it’s Code Interpreter for ChatGPT Plus users starting next week!

🧰 AI How-To

How to Scrape and Summarize Links for Free

On the last edition of The Rabbit Hole, we introduced MyZone AI Labs, and the Youtube Summarizer app. Today we are bringing the one we use the most when creating our newsletters: Website Content Scrapper!!

This tool allows you to scrape most websites and links, and then copy the content to tools like ChatGPT to create summaries.

Here are the steps:

1. Go to the link: https://labs.myzone.ai/ Check the Home page for more information on this project.

2. If you haven’t created your account click on “START HERE”. If you have, then login.

3. Click on “Register”, follow the instructions, and fill out the necessary information.

4. Go to the “Apps” section, look for “Website Content Scrapper” and click “Open App”.

5. Copy the link you want the tool to scrape the content from.

6. Paste the link inside the “Enter website URL” empty box.

7. Click on “Scrape Website Content”.

8. Wait a few seconds; your Content will be in the box on the right.

9. Copy the Content and go to ChatGPT.

10. Create a new chat and type the summary prompt, for example:

Provide a 500 character long summary on the following content: 

[add website content]

🤏 The Curators Pick’s

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