𝑵𝒐, 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕'𝒔 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒂 𝒋𝒐𝒌𝒆... 𝗚𝗣𝗧-𝟰 𝗺𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝘀𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝗯𝗲𝗰𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝗶𝘁 "𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗲𝗱" 𝘁𝗼 𝗱𝗼 𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗱𝗮𝘆𝘀 Rob Lynch described on X (Twitter) an interesting experiment on a phenomenon that Ethan Mollick labeled the "AI Winter Break Hypothesis" 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗧𝗟;𝗗𝗥: 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝘁𝗚𝗣𝗧 𝗴𝗲𝘁𝘀 𝗹𝗮𝘇𝘆, 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗔𝗜 𝗱𝗼𝗲𝘀𝗻'𝘁 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝘄𝗵𝘆 ⚗ OpenAI's GPT-4-turbo over the API produces (statistically significant) shorter completions when it "thinks" its December vs. when it thinks its May (as determined by the date in the system prompt). I took the same exact prompt over the API (a code completion task asking to implement a machine learning task without libraries). I created two system prompts, one that told the API it was May and another that it was December and then compared the distributions. 🔬 For the May system prompt, mean = 4298 🔬 For the December system prompt, mean = 4086 N = 477 completions in each sample from May and December t-test p < 2.28e-07 To reproduce this you can just vary the date number in the system message. Would love to see if this reproduces for others. 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗔𝗜 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗮𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝘀 𝗜𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗮 𝗯𝘂𝗴, 𝗶𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗮 𝗳𝗲𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 🛋 We've heard all your feedback about #GPT4 getting lazier! We haven't updated the model since Nov 11th, and this certainly isn't intentional. Model behavior can be unpredictable, and we're looking into fixing it. To be clear, the idea is not that the model has somehow changed itself since Nov 11th. It's just that differences in model behavior can be subtle -- only a subset of prompts may be degraded, and it may take a long time for customers and employees to notice and fix these patterns 𝗦𝗼 𝗴𝗲𝘁 𝗯𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝘁𝗼 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝗴𝘂𝘆𝘀, 𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗶𝗽 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗯𝗼𝘁 💵 So back to work - GPT-4 won't be much help for now, unless you can motivate it - Theia Vogel recently reported that ChatGPT gives longer responses if you 'tip it $200. So Even bots are tip-shaming. [no joke either...] Sources: ◾ @RobLynch99 - ChatGPT became lazy: twitter.com/RobLynch99/statu… ◾ @OpenAI - It is not a bug: x.com/ChatGPTapp/status/1733… ◾ @voooooogel - You better tip your Bot: x.com/voooooogel/status/1730… #ai #genai #generativeai #explainableai #innovation

Es wäre wünschenswert, doch programmieren werden sich #AI #Algorithmen zukünftig voraussichtlich selbst - ohne unser Zutun Wäre es nicht viel wichtiger für Kinder die Zusammenhänge zu verstehen? ...programmieren wird zum Commodity werden... #FutureOfWork #DigitalTransformation

Metrics to keep an eye on in 2024 ☕️ Your cup of coffee could be about to get more expensive. Read how a warming planet might change your latte order… #sustainability #globalwarming economist.com/the-world-ahea…

$NVDA NVIDIA Q3 FY24. Quarter ending October 2023. • Revenue 34% Q/Q to $18.1B ($2.0B beat). • Gross margin 74% ( 4pp Q/Q). • Operating margin 57% ( 7pp Q/Q). • Non-GAAP EPS $4.02 ($0.63 beat). Q4 FY24 guidance: • Revenue ~$20.0B ($2.2B beat).

$CRM Salesforce Q3 FY24: • RPO 14% Y/Y to $23.9B. • Revenue 11% Y/Y to $8.7B (in-line). • Operating margin 17% ( 11pp Y/Y). • Non-GAAP EPS $2.11 ($0.05 beat). FY24 guidance • Revenue 11% Y/Y to $34.8B ($25M raise). • Non-GAAP op. margin ~30.5% ( 0.5pp).

$ACN Accenture Q1 FY24: • Revenue 3% Y/Y to $16.2B (in-line). • Non-GAAP EPS $3.27 ($0.14 beat). • New bookings 12% Y/Y to $18.4B. • Dividend 15% Y/Y to $1.29. • Stock buyback $1.2B. FY24 guidance unchanged: • Revenue up to 5% Y/Y fx neutral. • EPS up to $11.76 ( 9% Y/Y).

A photo of an engineer wiring an early IBM computer, 1958. (Photo by Berenice Abbott).