Last summer, I got access to GPT-4. It felt like I had a new kind of passport.
My pages were quickly filled with stamps: Over 1,000 prompts. 800+ pages of outputs. Just in the first few months.
With GPT-4, I traveled through light bulb jokes, epic poems, original sci fi plots, and musings on how AI might strengthen democracy, society and industries.
The goal, like in any good trip, was to learn as much about my traveling partner as the place I was exploring.
Earlier this year, I organized my explorations with GPT-4 into sections: creativity, education, criminal justice, public intellectualism, journalism and more.
My travelog, Impromptu, captures my treks with GPT-4. These paths will be well-trodden soon (if not already) by others.
I'm writing this travelog both to encourage people to not only get to know GPT-4, but to embrace our choice of how we’ll use it, and explore the different ways this choice might play out.
What if, in the future, everything breaks humanity's way?
In my new podcast, Possible, my co-host @AriaIrene and I talk with some sharp minds to sketch out the brightest future and what it'll take to get there. We also invite another guest, GPT-4, to help us.
Here's a preview:
Here’s a little bit more on why @AriaIrene and I are so galvanized by Possible, our guests, and what humanity could possibly get right if we leverage technology—and our collective effort—effectively.
We’re honored to launch Possible with comedian, author & former Daily Show host @Trevornoah. We talk the future of entertainment, but also capitalism, work, identity, misinformation & more. He did, however, only like one of GPT-4’s lightbulb jokes!💡
I believe that a guiding mission will take you farther than the success of any one product. And if you’re ever forced to choose between them, choose the mission every time.
Letting go is hard. It’s easy to fool yourself into thinking a product or service is on mission. Maybe it reaches a lot of people, or maybe the feedback is great, or it makes lots of money, or maybe you grew it from nothing and can’t bear to let it go.
I wanted to talk to @noom's @saejujeong because he’s never been afraid to choose mission over product.
In fact, he has made painful pivots in service of his guiding mission: to use technology to help as many people as possible live healthier lives.
Immigration is pure entrepreneurship. You leave behind everything familiar to start somewhere new. You must acquire skills. You will have to improvise on occasion. It’s a bold proposition.
To succeed, you need support from the people around you. That’s true for everyone, but especially for immigrants—and, in particular, immigrant children.
This population is a large, growing group in the US: 1 of 4 students under age 17 is an immigrant or the child of immigrants.
Teacher @Jessica_Lander deeply understands what it takes for immigrant students to succeed in America—and become Americans.
For years, she’s taught immigrants and refugee students from >30 countries. And she travels the US to find classrooms transforming immigrant education.
Inspired by the potential of DALL•E and NFTs — and the possibilities that they unleash together — my team and I have created a number of small image collections that we'll be tokenizing as NFTs.
The first collection debuts on Magic Eden today.
Here's why I'm experimenting:
"A picture is worth a thousand words."
But with DALL•E the inverse is true: a single word is worth a thousand pictures.
I’ve been struck by how DALL•E simultaneously creates both digital abundance and digital scarcity.
Digital abundance:
In a few hours, a single user with no artistic experience can generate hundreds of expertly rendered images.
Each of these might have once taken hours or days of work to complete using traditional methods (including software).
A great piece of career advice is to just “follow your passion” right?
Wrong!
When it comes to crafting a great career, that’s not the whole picture. You must also take into account the skills that will differentiate you, and where they fit into the marketplace.
On the latest episode of the Startup of You Podcast, @bencasnocha and I explain the “three gears” that underlie every world-class career: Assets, Aspirations, and Market Realities.
Not surprised to see Trump's attacks on @elonmusk. Elon's a classic 🇺🇸 immigrant story - an entrepreneur with a real record of success. Started EV revolution w/Tesla, resurrected US rocket industry w/SpaceX, fighting climate change while promoting American innovation.
Trump, OTOH, is a spoiled rich kid who bankrupts everything he touches. Including the US economy. His career highlight was pretending to be a successful entrepreneur on a TV show, instead of being one in real life like Elon.
Personally, I support people working to build a better future for America and the world. Trump is such a stuck-in-the-past sore loser that he'd rather spread lies, incite insurrection and damage American democracy than admit he lost a fair election.