Legal slavery is an open secret in the tech industry — OpenAI paid Kenyan workers $1.32 to $2 per hour to read details of murder, child sexual abuse, suicide, and incest. This happened between November 2021 and February 2022 in Nairobi, the capital of Kenya. Now here’s the kicker: If you were a hotel receptionist working in Nairobi around the same…

And other news in Tech This Week — Tech This Week is a column that summarizes the most important developments in tech, all while keeping a balanced perspective. You’ll also find a short list of headlines that will help you keep up to speed. Microsoft plans to use ChatGPT to challenge Google According to reports from Microsoft insiders, the company plans to use ChatGPT to upgrade…

Reports say Microsoft will use OpenAI’s tech to improve its search engine and other products — Two months before ChatGPT came out, Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, had an interview about the place of Artificial Intelligence in the future of business. The first thing that came out of his mouth was Google. “I’d guess that with the quality of Language Models that we’ll see in…

Free talent at your fingertips — ChatGPT is a lot like cooking. Depending on the recipe, the same ingredients can either impress or disappoint. Recently, a group of Github developers curated a list of prompts they use to make the best out of the AI assistant. …

The latest news — with a bit of nuance — In this issue, we’ll talk about Google ringing the alarm bells after ChatGPT’s success, McDonald’s semi-automated store, and Amazon’s delivery drones. You’ll also find a short list of interesting headlines at the end. Amazon makes its first drone deliveries The first time Amazon spoke about drone delivery was in 2013. Nine years later, David Carbon the…

Market downturns are good opportunities to deploy capital — Warren Buffet is my favorite investor because he’s boring. Every interview is the same. Same jokes, same clothes, same drink — and most important, same advice. Earlier this year, Buffet had a lengthy interview with Charlie Rose and one of the first questions was about the man’s “investing genius.” Buffet…

Steal, adapt, and apply them to your own life — One way to break free of autopilot mode is to pause and look back. “If you want to prepare for Tomorrow,” my favorite teacher used to say, “you must first dig up Yesterday.” To mark the end of my 30th year, I put together a list of tiny bits of…

Make randomness work in your favor using the Barbell Strategy — Risk is the price you pay for information you don’t have — and the information you don’t have is called randomness. This doesn’t mean that randomness is your enemy. It’s more like a force of Nature that can benefit you as much as it can harm you. Think of a…

Can AI assistants steal the show from search engines? — If chatbots were a videogame, ChatGPT would be the final boss. It’s not only as smart as Google, but it can also answer follow-up questions, admit its mistakes, and challenge your assumptions — all while sounding like a good friend. “Great stuff,” you may say, “but what exactly is ChatGPT?” …