Generative AI Weekly - Jan. 8, 2024

January 8, 2024

Just a few for today:

  • Promotional material/research from Microsoft: "What Can Copilot’s Earliest Users Teach Us About Generative AI at Work?"
    • 70% of Copilot users said they were more productive, and 68% said it improved the quality of their work.
    • Overall, users were 29% faster in a series of tasks (searching, writing, and summarizing).
    • Users were able to get caught up on a missed meeting nearly 4x faster.
    • 64% of users said Copilot helps them spend less time processing email.
    • 85% of users said Copilot helps them get to a good first draft faster.
    • 75% of users said Copilot “saves me time by finding whatever I need in my files.”
    • 77% of users said once they used Copilot, they didn’t want to give it up.
  • To that note - Microsoft has launched CoPilot Pro that integrates across Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint.
  • Pre-print paper titled "Thousands of AI Authors on the Future of AI"
  • 2778 researchers predicted in 2023 and 2024 when AI systems would achieve various milestones such as "NYT best-selling fiction" with a bunch of other aggregate insights
  • ChatGPT is now making videos
  • Google DeepMind publishing a paper on AI systems solving "complex geometry problems at a level approaching a human Olympiad gold-medalist"