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AI talent is the biggest moat you can have today.⁹⁸¹ Some weeks back, Netflix posted a job shelling out total comp as high as $900,000 to hire AI talent. Other major employers like Hinge, Walmart, Goldman Sachs, and Amazon are also recruiting AI experts with salaries reaching $250,000 or more. Prompt engineering jobs are averaging at around $130,000 total comp.

The interesting chart in this WSJ report is how even after explosive growth in AI job posting, it is just 400 jobs per million. Unpaywalled version here.^1,349

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Americans don’t trust AI giants.²²⁷ Shockerrr!! Just kidding. This distrust was anecdotally evident, and now in a poll by YouGov surveying 1001 US votes, 82% said they don't trust tech executives to regulate AI. This report from Axios combines this with KPMG’s worldwide data from earlier this year and presents the relevant data points.

For example, 72% prefer slowing down the development of AI, but confidence in the government's ability to regulate AI is low UK (49%) and UK (45%). (there’s higher confidence in Asia with China at 86% and India at 70%)

3/ Amazon enhances product reviews with generative AI.³⁶⁷ Last week, Amazon released an LLM tool for sellers to write product descriptions. It will now summarize product reviews for the customers. The summary will capture different sentiments with a few buttons like “easy to use” or “fragile” that lead to specific reviews.

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 Cool Tools  trending product launches from the last 24 hours

• Backtrack⁷⁴⁵ - Record any meeting including Slack Huddles, Zoom, Teams, or in-person meeting up to 5 hours in the past.

• Wrapper’s Delight⁵⁰⁹ - Light-weight open-source OpenAI wrapper.

• Thiggle^341† - Generate text completions with deterministic and structured output.

• Fable Wizard⁷²¹ - Create personalized children's tales in seconds.

• Dataherald^422† - Query your structured database in natural language.

• MagicPaper⁶⁴⁸ - Load an article, ask a question, and watch the margins fill with answers.

• Chatwith⁶⁴⁵ - An AI chatbot that does more than just chatting.

• User Persona Generator^1,172 – Understand your ideal customer without running 50 interviews.

• ChartPixel⁶⁹¹ - Turns your raw data into charts and written insights in 30 seconds.

• Outlines by Normal Computing³¹³ - Generate valid JSON 100% of the time.

• Tweetify It⁵⁶⁶ - Turn articles and blogs into personal social media posts.

• Kyligence Copilot³³⁸ - The AI copilot to chat with your business metrics.

• Epsilla³⁰¹ - Open-source vector database with low query latency.

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• The folks at a16z have made AI-town³⁶¹, where you can run your own custom AI world SIM with JavaScript. Read more about the building process.¹⁶⁴

 Ben’s Bites News  top posts from the last 24 hours

• Neuralangelo²⁵⁵ by Nvidia - High-fidelity 3D surface reconstruction from RGB video captures.

• BOLAA - Benchmarking and orchestrating LLM-augmented autonomous agents¹⁵¹.

• ts_zip - Text compression¹⁸⁵ using large language models.

• Audio-video speech recognition and translation²³⁰ demo from Meta.

• These women tried to warn us about AI⁴⁰⁷.

• Why the great AI backlash⁴¹⁴ came for a tiny startup you’ve probably never heard of.

• The New York Times wants to prevent AI scraping¹⁸² of its content by updating its terms of service.

• What are the economics of AI?⁵⁴¹

• Unilever, Siemens, Maersk, and other multinationals turn to generative AI to manage supply chains.²⁷²

• Opposite from openness — An Iowa school district is using AI to ban books²¹².

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