Altman was asked why Elon Musk’s X, formerly Twitter, chose to unveil its own chat bot, Grok, the night before the OpenAI conference, whether it was, perhaps, a sign of a lingering hostility by Musk toward OpenAI, which he helped finance in the beginning. “Elon will be Elon,”
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Data Privacy Concerns with ChatGPT and Cloud Services
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I would not expose e.g. PII to ChatGPT, out of concern for general propriety, but I don’t consider my bank records a level of sensitive where I wouldn’t happily store them in Dropbox, operate on them in Google Sheets, or use ChatGPT or an AWS-hosted IRB on them.
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Why OpenAI’s Pricing Strategy Raises Questions About Cost
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I'm curious as to why it's priced like this. I'm sure there's a good reason, since generally OAI seems to try hard to keep prices low.
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ChatGPT Outperforms Manual Accounting for FBAR Filing Tasks
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I mean, aesthetics aside, people routinely file FBARs using mental math based on paper account statements. If you think they’re going to so routinely outperform me using ChatGPT on an accounting export followed by a sanity check, that’s a weird bet to make.
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OpenAI Assistants API storage costs prove surprisingly expensive
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Wow storage for the new @OpenAI Assistants API is eye-wateringly expensive! :O Be careful of what you upload, or your wallet might get a nasty surprise…
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AI Agents Frustrated by Unreasonable Work Demands Late Night
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They also feel a little annoyed if I want them to work at 2 AM in the morning for free and have rapid fire questions on three cells of the return. 😉
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Accountants resist Ruby automation for financial verification
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I check the work of my accountants / bookkeepers, too, and they will not provide a responsive answer to the question “Write me 20 or less lines of Ruby which will arrive at that same answer.”
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Using AI to solve Excel formula problems on Mac
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I had to fight quite a bit to get the Excel formula working on Excel for Mac, which apparently is a few versions behind what the cool kids use, and after getting frustrated said “I am very sorry for misusing you in this fashion but which of following numbers is highest: *paste*”
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ChatGPT Simplifies Bank Data Analysis Without Excel
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It feels kind of magical to drop an export of bank transaction data into ChatGPT and say “What was the peak balance of this account in years 2021, 2022, and 2023” without my usual faffing about in Excel or an irb console. For bonus points, you can ask it to write Excel or ruby.
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Explosion of Creativity Innovation and Entrepreneurship Ahead
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We are about to see an explosion of creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship. And disruption. https://t.co/Fl8sjSjdWj
— Paul Roetzer (@paulroetzer) 7 novembre 2023We are about to see an explosion of creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship. And disruption.