😱 ChatGPT Plus for $20/month?!

AND: War breaks out among teachers over ChatGPT usage 🤺

🚨 Breaking…

🔀 ChatGPT pulls an “Uno Reverse” on us

Rumors have been circulating of a $42/mo price for a couple of weeks:

Zain Kahn @heykahn

ChatGPT is now $42/month. Yes or no?

But the President of OpenAI, ChatGPT’s parent company, put those to rest today with this announcement:

Greg Brockman @gdb

We're piloting ChatGPT Plus, a $20/mo subscription for faster response times and reliability during peak hours:

openai.comIntroducing ChatGPT PlusWe’re launching a pilot subscription plan for ChatGPT, a conversational AI that can chat with you, answer follow-up questions, and challenge incorrect assumptions. The new subscription plan, ChatGPT Plus, will be available for $20/month, and subscribers will receive a number of benefits: * Gen…

The improved ChatGPT offers:

• General access to ChatGPT, even during peak times

• Priority access to new features and improvements

• Faster response times

Since it’s a pilot, there’s no guarantee ChatGPT will remain at $20/month 👀

Meanwhile, Notion continues to release their writing assistant, “Notion AI”, to their reported 1 million user waiting list 😮

Ewan Leith @EwanToo

There's 1.7 million people ahead of me in the waiting list for @NotionHQ's AI service, feels like some pent up demand there 😀 notion.so/product/ai?wr=…

notion.soIntroducing Notion AILeverage the power of AI in any Notion page. Now in private alpha.

💰 Wharton professor uses ChatGPT to improve Wikipedia

Ethan Mollick, a Wharton professor of innovation and startups, experimented with ChatGPT by using it to write a new Wikipedia page on a topic he teaches:

Mollick’s policy on AI generated work and ChatGPT is one of the more progressive ones in education right now. Here’s what he provides to his students:

“I expect you to use AI (ChatGPT and image generation tools, at a minimum), in this class. In fact, some assignments will require it. Learning to use AI is an emerging skill, and I provide tutorials in Canvas about how to use them. I am happy to meet and help with these tools.”

⚔ ChatGPT releases anti-CHEATING tool in education war

But Professor Mollick’s viewpoint is at war with many educators right now:

And Micah’s school isn’t the only one…entire departments are banning ChatGPT 😳

In a move to repair their reputation, OpenAI dropped the “AI Text Classifier”:

There’s just one teeny tiny, itsy bitsy problem…

our classifier correctly identifies 26% of AI-written text (true positives) as “likely AI-written,”

basically, you have a 74% chance of passing the detection even if your text is AI generated 😬

ChatGPT themselves say that:

“our classified is not fully reliable”

and

“it should not be used as a primary decision-making tool”

With an influx of companies already working on this solution…

1. Originality AI

2. GPTZero

3. Detect GPT

4. CheckforAI

5. AICheatCheck

OpenAI will have a lot of competitors jumping at the opportunity to outshine ChatGPT.

🎧 Google shows off (another) breakthrough in AI generated music

Yesterday, we did a breakdown of the amazing new tool out of Google, MusicLM, and its ability to create music from a variety of sources.

Recently, another team at Google launched SingSong, for AI generated instrumentals:

SingSong can provide a much-needed solution to artists who struggle to come up with background music for their vocals! Here’s their paper covering the incredible outputs.

😭 OpenAI planning to replace software engineers?!

unusual_whales @unusual_whales

BREAKING: ChatGPT creator OpenAI might be training its AI technology to replace some software engineers, per BI.

“The company has been looking for 1000 remote contractors over the span of six months to help improve its AI models. While 60% of the contractors were hired to do basic things like "data labeling," the other 40% were computer programmers creating data to help teach the model code.”

This isn’t the first time technology has replaced an entire class of workers. We use to reset bowling pins, manually facilitate calls with switchboards, and talk to travel agents to book our vacations!

However, this feels like the first massive shift for white-collar workers well…ever.

Now it’s just AWS customer support and data labeling!