Study on ChatGPT usage, Meta's new AI model, Time's list of 100 most influential people in AI

In Focus

A study on ChatGPT prompts with real user data, was recently released. It’s based on anonymised panel data from Datos (a clickstream data provider), and gives a glimpse into how people use ChatGPT “in real life”. I think this is particularly cool because it’s a much-discussed subject in the AI community, but with little publicly available data to substantiate the discussion so far.

Here’s the TLDR about the results:

Sparktoro, in collaboration with Datos, has analysed ChatGPT usage from an opt-in panel of about 20 million devices, with a global spread.

The data indicates a drop in OpenAI's traffic since May, but offers limited insight into the underlying reasons for this decline.

The top use cases for ChatGPT according to the study are:

• ‍Programming: 29% - Tasks include writing code, formatting, and debugging.‍
• Education: 23% - For both personal and professional contexts.
• Content Creation: 21% -  Various types of writing, social media posts, blog posts, etc.
• Sales & Marketing: 13% - Web analytics, ad optimization, product messaging. Some overlap with content creation.

Percentages refer to the share of prompts about the given topic. Despite the big panel size the final sample of filtered and credible prompts is rather small, around 4,000, which should be taken into account when looking at these results.

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Dario’s Picks

• What OpenAI Really Wants.

OpenAI’s executive team are featured on the cover of Wired’s upcoming October issue. This engaging read discusses the company’s history, ambitions and challenges on the path to building AGI.

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• Time Magazine announced list of the 100 most influential people in AI.

Great way to get an overview of impactful people and companies in AI right now. The list has already been criticised for all the people they did not include, which I’m sure is true – then again that’s the nature of top lists.

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• Meta is planning a new AI model several times more powerful than Llama 2.

The company expects to start training the new model in early 2024, and hopes it will be as capable as GPT-4. It’s likely that the launch will happen after Google’s upcoming release of Gemini, which recent reports show greatly surpasses GPT-4.

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ChatGPT plugins

• The plugin store just passed 1,000 plugins 📈
• There’s now 1,014 ChatGPT plugins, of which 44 were launched in the past 7 days.

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• Notable launches:

Printify - Transforms your ideas into personalized t-shirts, helping you start your own ecommerce business with Printify.

Supermetrics - Taps into Facebook Ads data effortlessly for insights, trusted by over a million marketers worldwide.

• Categories with most new launches:

Marketing and SEO - 57 plugins (6 new)

Document Formatting - 24 plugins (6 new)

Job Search - 42 plugins (5 new)

• Have you tried ChatGPT plugin games? Check out this article I came across about the best ones.

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AI Bytes & Resources

• Anthropic launched a paid version of Claude 2. Similar to ChatGPT plus, the subscription costs 20$; it gives priority access to Claude 2 and 5x more usage than the free tier. It’s mostly relevant to heavy users, as the free tier limit is relatively generous.
• Inflection AI reached 1 billion exchanged messages on Pi. Pi stands for “personal intelligence”, and aims to provide more supportive and conversationally intelligent experience than other chatbots.
• Hugging Face launched Training Cluster as a Service. It allows you to see the approximate price of training a large language model with different configurations (parameters, dataset size, GPU types).
• X’s privacy policy confirms it will use public data to train AI models. Elon Musk states they will leverage “just public data, not DMs or anything private”.
• OpenAI announces first developer conference on November 6th in San Fransisco. “We’re looking forward to showing our latest work to enable developers to build new things,” said Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI.
• Spread Your Wings: Falcon 180B is here. The largest open-source language model available with a whopping 180 billion parameters, trained on 3.5 trillion tokens.
• Ideogram is now open to everyone. It’s a free text-to-image generator similar to Midjourney, but distinguished by it’s ability to render coherent text inside images.
• Zoom Unveils New AI Companion Features. Currently the main feature is meeting summaries, but Zoom will release a “significant expansion” of generative AI features in the coming months.
• Major websites are increasingly blocking OpenAI’s web crawler GPTBot. Nearly 10% of the top 1000 biggest website are have blocked the crawler, including Bloomberg, Reuters, Amazon, New York Times, and more.
• eBay's new 'magical' AI tool writes product descriptions for you from a single photo. Shopping platforms are increasingly leveraging AI to make it easier and faster to create product listings.

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