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In Today’s Email: 

• The Right way to think about AI and Work

• Product Updates: GPT-4 for students, OneNote gets Copilot, Microsoft Edge adds DALL-E

• Tidbit News: Amazon gets into cars, Japan researchers can mind read, Disney uses AI in movies, & more

• Learn How-To: 10X your sales pipeline and reduce outreach time with AI

🚨 Headline News

The one thing you need to know today

THE RIGHT WAY TO THINK ABOUT AI + WORK

Turn on the morning news: "New developments in AI." Open TechCrunch: "Another AI company receives funding." Text from mom: "Did you know AI could do this?"

Seems like you can't go anywhere these days without seeing AI and chances are you've already started having conversations about it at work.

In a recent survey, over 68% of respondents reported being afraid of AI replacing their jobs.

While it's undeniable that AI's impact will be transformation and far reaching, this isn't the first time a new piece of technology was met with societal backlash.

When typewriters and calculators first arrived on the scene, their impact and usefulness could be understood immediately. However, the sentiment around their usage wasn't from a place of amazement, but that of skepticism and even anger.

Reading something that was written with it feels insulting. "It’s too impersonal, and lacks a human touch. It comes off like bland corporate marketing. Not only that, but using it is expensive, and it feels like an invasion of privacy."

Sound familiar?

Opportunity or Threat?

When we're asked how do we perceive AI, the honest answer is, it's just a tool. Albeit a very sophisticated and intelligent tool. 

The important insight should actually be a focus on your work as it is today and asking if that work is truly valuable to you and the organization.

Valuable work is something that should be challenging, develops skills, and delivers value to both you and the recipient. 

In today's world, there are jobs that people hate to do that unfortunately provide value to people. 

Imagine someone in Customer Support, behind the computer, answering support tickets. It is very valuable to the company and end user if that person were able to resolve your problems quickly, make you feel special by pulling information from a carefully curated database of notes about you in their CRM and recommending additional products you might like.

However, that job is extremely repetitive and tedious. Low value to the employee.

AI has the opportunity replace the jobs people hate to do and move them into jobs they love to do. 

The Right Way

We've said in earlier editions that we don't believe in the banning of these technologies; access should be universal and if you don't use them, your competitors definitely will.

How we use them ethically is still up for discussion, but here are a few easy guidelines:

• Have an open dialogue with your team/company

• Disclose what aspect of your work was generated with AI

• If dealing with sensitive information, ensure you're using AI in a closed environment, ie. OpenAI Playground

This new technology is here to stay and we believe it's better to be informed than pretend to ignore it.

If you have any questions related to AI and work, please feel free to send us an email. That's the tea for the week!

🖥️ Product Updates

Updates on products + features

👩‍🎓AI for Students Brainly announces beta for personalized learning with GPT-4

📓 OneNote Upgrade Microsoft is adding Copilot to OneNote to help you write notes 

🖼️ Edge > Chrome Microsoft adds DALL-E's image generator to Edge browser

📰 Tidbit News

Quick scan of the top AI stories

🚗 Amazon Gets Into Cars Hankook, Amazon Web Services and Snowflake partner to establish AI platform

🤝Negotiations For Unban OpenAI to offer remedies to resolve Italy's ChatGPT ban

🗾 Japan Sparks Debate Osaka University researchers used AI to decode subject's brain

📺 Media Is Scared CNN and Washington Post are scared AI will make articles so good people will stop visiting their website

🏰 Disney Uses AI Recent Disney movie caught using AI actors to complete a scene 

🧰 The Tool Stack

A daily tool stack to optimize your workflow

1/ Double - Use GPT to pull in, gather info and sort 100s of leads on the internet instantly

2/ Nureply - Once you've identified you're leads, send killer emails with high response rates

3/ Attention - Setup your calls then automatically update your CRM with a few clicks

💰 VC Corner

Recent startup funding announcements

1/ Portrait Analytics - Raises $3M [AI for Finance & Investing]

2/ Native AI - Raises $3.5M [AI for Market Research]

3/ HeartFlow - Raises $215M [AI for Healthcare]

Paris Fashion Week in Midjourney.

And that's the tea for today! Cheers to the fricken weekend! Nick, takes his coffee black, Ty, iced lattes only