In today’s issue:

• A Redditor with dyslexia wrote a book using ChatGPT and Midjourney.
• Meta’s chief AI scientist dishes out ChatGPT opinions.
• Fiverr sees massive rise in demand for AI-related tasks.

😎 3 Cool Things in AI

1. A Redditor with dyslexia used ChatGPT and Midjourney to create a 93-page book in 10 days. The subject? How to write a book with ChatGPT.
2. Facebook’s parent company, Meta, is working on their own text-to-video AI generator.
3. Make some of your favorite characters, celebrities, and influencers say whatever you want with FakeYou.

🤓 2 Big Stories About AI

**1.**Meta’s chief AI scientist isn’t impressed by ChatGPT.

There have been a few rumblings lately about Meta entering the AI race. And even though they might not be someone we associate with AI yet, they certainly have opinions on the AI flavor of the week.

The 🥩 of it:

• Meta’s chief AI scientist, Yann LeCun, says that OpenAI's ChatGPT program is “not unique or particularly innovative”.

• It wasn’t all bad takes from LeCun though. He did add that the program is well-put-together and nicely done, but just “not revolutionary”.

• He said that the idea of OpenAI being alone in its type of work is inaccurate, as many companies and research labs have built similar data-driven AI systems in the past.

• LeCun went on to state that ChatGPT uses Transformer architectures that are pre-trained in a self-supervised manner, which is something that he has been advocating for a long time, even before OpenAI existed.

  • He also said that the Transformers technology was a Google invention, and that the work on language programs goes back decades.

• LeCun stated that the ChatGPT program is a case less of scientific breakthroughs than it is an instance of decent engineering.

• He compared the program to IBM's Watson computer and entrepreneur Sebastian Thrun's self-driving vehicle, stating that it was not particularly innovative in terms of the underlying science but was just very well-engineered.

My two cents: Nike wasn’t the first to make shoes. But they sure as hell marketed them better. The stuff Yann is discrediting OpenAI for are things very few people will care about. Their go-to-market strategy was 100x better than what had been done before, so they got all the hype they deserved.

2. Fiverr sees massive rise in demand for AI skills.

Fiverr, the largest online marketplace for hiring freelancers, has seen a massive spike in interest for AI-related tasks in the last 6 months. In response to the trend, the company is introducing new AI categories to its marketplace.

The 🥩 of it:

• Businesses are increasingly interested in using AI, leading to a 1,400% increase in searches for AI-related services on freelance marketplace Fiverr over the last six months.
• Organizations are looking for individuals that can help them take advantage of various AI technologies, including generative AI capabilities for image and text generation that can improve marketing, sales, and business operations.
• Fiverr is now introducing new categories to its freelance marketplace to help businesses find the talent they need to benefit from the power of AI.

“We’ve seen a trend of increasing searches for AI-related services,” Yoav Hornung, head of verticals and innovation at Fiverr, told VentureBeat. “We’ve also started seeing more freelancers creating offerings that are related to the world of generative AI, for the most recent tools like ChatGPT, GPT-3, Midjourney, Dall-E and Stable Diffusion.”

• Companies are also looking for skilled freelance developers who can help them build their own AI-powered applications.

• Fiverr is also seeing sizable demand from businesses looking for help building prompts for the different AI products.

  • I’ve seen some debates in Reddit subs about sharing prompts. Some users are even asking to make it a requirement to share your prompts when you post AI art. The fact that freelancers are getting paid just for building prompts could factor into why they seem to be reluctant in sharing them on Reddit.

• The explosion in the use of generative AI tools for text generation has also led to a new demand for humans to help businesses with proofreading and fact-checking documents and articles written by AI.

It will be interesting to see what the next 6 months looks like for AI searches on Fiverr. Right now, I would wager that most companies seeking AI art specifically are lower-budget businesses that can’t afford human designers and content creators. While the next 6 months will likely be spearheaded by small-medium sized businesses, I would bet that the 2nd half of 2023 sees a lot more enterprise businesses seeking AI creators.

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