ChatGPT, Anthropic, MAHA, User Stories, and Dark Matter
Weekly Review of News in Technology, UX and AI
Here’s the latest news, resources, and use cases from the world of product, UX, AI and technology. Let’s go:
📊 Unstructured Data
🏢 ChatGPT
📱 Anthropic
👓 MAHA Hallucinations
✍️ User Stories
🌑 Dark Matter
💉 GLP-1s
Podcast
Structured Thinking for Unstructured Data: A Conversation with Founder Kirk Marple
In this episode of Product by Design, Kyle is joined by Kirk Marple, founder and CEO of Graphlit, to explore the world of unstructured data and how it’s transforming with the rise of LLMs and AI-native tools. Kirk shares his journey from working at Microsoft and General Motors to building Graflit—a platform designed to make unstructured data as usable as structured data.
News and Useful Reads
OpenAI wants ChatGPT to be a ‘super assistant’ for every part of your life
According to internal strategy documents, OpenAI unsurprisingly wants ChatGPT to be infused in every aspect of your life.
“In the first half of next year, we’ll start evolving ChatGPT into a super-assistant: one that knows you, understands what you care about, and helps with any task that a smart, trustworthy, emotionally intelligent person with a computer could do,” reads the document from late 2024.
AI CEO says the tech could replace 50% of entry-level jobs
Will AI take a significant number of jobs? The CEO of Anthropic certainly thinks. Though it’s hard to tell if it’s what he really thinks, or just part of the hype these companies continue to push.
The billionaire CEO of Anthropic, Dario Amodei, told Axios this week that AI could eliminate 50% of all white-collar, entry-level roles within the next one to five years, potentially pushing unemployment rates up 10% to 20%.
MAHA report filled with flawed references, including studies that don't exist
Unsurprisingly, the make america healthy again report this week from RFK Jr. and the Trump regime looks like it was partly written by AI.
The first report from the Trump administration’s Make America Healthy Again Commission, released last week, appears to be rife with errors, including some studies that don’t exist.
Ultimate Guide to Writing a High-Quality User Story
Good user stories is one of the most important things in product development. And as much as we talk about them and use them, I still find many product managers and teams don’t do a great job.
While there are many principles and techniques in Agile, a user story is one of the most effective techniques to improve the team’s performance. The user story defines requirements effectively and efficiently so that it clarifies goals, eliminates misunderstandings, and increases the quality.
Other Interesting Finds
The Nobel Prize Winner Who Thinks We Have the Universe All Wrong
By doing the work that led to the discovery of dark energy, Riess had helped add the final piece to what has since come to be called the “standard model of cosmology.” Indeed, few people played a larger role in establishing the standard model as the field’s dominant theory of how the universe began, how it organized itself into galaxies, and how it will end. But in recent years, cosmologists, the people who study the universe on the largest scales of space and time, have begun to worry that this story, and particularly its final act, might be wrong. Some talk of revolution. A growing number now say that the standard model should be replaced.
How Making GLP-1s Available Over the Counter Can Unlock Their Full Potential
GLP-1 drugs are primarily used now for diabetes and weight loss. But there is evidence they might be able to reduce all cravings, not just food.
As clinicians and clinical researchers learned more about the direct effect that GLP-1s have on food cravings, they set out to find if they may help reduce cravings for other substances and perhaps even help people with substance-use disorders.