George Butler @YourButler

@thisisyogic @FourthReserve My only thought is that tokens were probably easier to counterfeit than coins (being less official) so were checked for the quality of the silver in a brash chopping way - and this one didn’t make the grade? I admit I’m making this up tho!

WATCH: @JesseKellyDC and @Heritage President @KevinRobertsTX discuss Project 2025 on the @JesseKellyShow at the RNC.

I made an iPhone app that always points at the centre of the galaxy!

A forgotten anniversary: it’s 100 years since Claude Hopkins published “Scientific Advertising”. The book sold over 8 million copies, but few read it now. Is it still relevant in the digital age? 1/12

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Marketers often have an unhealthy obsession with efficiency - in many circumstances the Principle of Redundancy is of more value In the excellent Why does the pedlar sing by Paul Feldwick

Can the oil and gas industry play a constructive role in transitions? This is one of the burning questions for the climate. Today, the @IEA released a massive new report on the subject. Let’s dive in for a quick one, shall we?

NEW: Generative AI is already taking white collar jobs An ingenious study by @xianghui90 @oren_reshef @Zhou_Yu_AI looked at what happened on a huge online freelancing platform after ChatGPT launched last year. The answer? Freelancers got fewer jobs, and earned much less

In 2006, I was 1 of 4 designers on Google Search. For 20 years, every search engine has copied Google. Now ChatGPT, Bard + Claude look like Google's offspring - "better” search engines. But last week signaled we're on the brink of a design revolution. ChatGPT unveiled incredible new features. These could give us the opportunity to completely shift how we interface with AI. Here's the full story: ––– When I was a designer on Google Search, all major search engines looked the same – Google, Yahoo, MSN Bing. Google was the market leader with a heavily optimized UI that supported billions of dollars in ad revenue. Naturally, it became THE way to show search results. Its success made it illogical for Google to consider big UI changes. And any changes they did make were just mirrored by everyone else. So 20 years later, we’ve only seen incremental changes to search engine UIs. ––– Today, we have consumer-ready LLMs (Large Language Models) freshly in our hands. As consumer products, these are in their infancy. We’re very early in understanding their capabilities and defining how people interact with them. These are uncharted waters. And yet ChatGPT, Bard, Claude etc. all chose a text-based input box — just like Google’s search box — as the core interface. Why? The input box is simple, versatile, and familiar. - It’s simple to understand → you type your questions into the box. - It’s versatile → the box can handle all sorts of questions/queries. - The paradigm is super familiar → people immediately know how to use it. Because of this, LLMs have essentially become “a better Google.” ––– But last week’s ChatGPT announcements thrust open the doors to new possibilities. ChatGPT is now multi-modal — it can see, hear, and speak. These are the recent announcements from @OpenAI : Voice: x.com/openai/status/… Photos: x.com/openai/status/… The example of ChatGPT explaining how to lower a bike seat was incredible. But, it could be so much better! The video showed you'll have to post multiple new photos to keep adding new information and to progress the conversation. It was still a linear conversation centered around the text box. But what if we rethought the interface to center around the image? What if ChatGPT supported both images AND voice simultaneously? Could we end up with a more immersive experience? ––– How else could interacting with LLMs mimic IRL conversations? Could we (or the AI) pinch to zoom or rotate the image? Could we interact in real time with video? What new possibilities open up with context being preserved over time? ––– There is so much energy and excitement around what AI can do. But we are limiting the potential by assuming the conversation box is the best interface. Right now, designers have the chance to create truly novel interactions and bust through the 20+ year old search UI paradigm. The ideas above are just to illustrate some potential options. But they are also intended to spark a flame. Now is the opportunity to be creative and explore divergent UIs. What are the craziest, coolest, most creative UI ideas we can unleash? LFG 🚀

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today @AviSchiffmann launched Tab, your personal always-on AI Assistant

Used book day at MIT

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We’ll be hosting our first developer conference, OpenAI DevDay, on November 6. Registration to attend in person in San Francisco will open in a few weeks. We’ll also livestream the keynote. openai.com/blog/announcin…

RHETORIC IS STICKY ADVERTISING. davetrott.co.uk/2023/09/rhetor…

YouTube adds playable games for select users to try theverge.com/2023/9/6/23861…

Memo to ministers: A net-zero transformation could boost UK GDP by 6.4% in 2050, relative to current govt policy (If govts delay action, GDP could be 1.1% lower) Findings @OxfordEconomics for @EnergyUKcomms energy-uk.org.uk/insights/the-c… HT @jhmsanders

Thank you to all that attended our summer networking Q&A event with @johnestevens, Political Editor @DailyMirror, generously hosted by @hanovertweets & moderated by LIC's @SarinaKiayani 🗨️​🌹

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we launched chatgpt enteprise. enterprise-grade security and privacy, large-scale deployment support, unlimited (and fast) gpt-4, 32k context, and more. customization on your company's data coming soon! openai.com/blog/introduci…