Welcome to Startups Weekly. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Friday. If you’ve been following along with this newsletter, you’ll have noticed that I’ve been a little bit curious about AI — especially generative AI. I’m likely not the first person to make this observation, but AIs are extremely, painfully average. I guess that’s kind of the point of them — train them on all knowledge, and mediocrity will surface. The trick is to only use AI tools for stuff that you, yourself, aren’t very good at. If you’re an expert artist or writer, it’ll let you down. The truth, though, is that most people aren’t great writers, and so ChatGPT and its brethren are going to be a massive benefit to white-collar workers everywhere. Well, until we collectively discover that a house cleaner has greater job security than an office manager or a secretary, at least. On that cheerful note, let’s sniff about in the startup bushes and see what tasty morsels we can scare up from the depths of the TechCrunch archive from the past week. . . . Okay, fine, let’s start with AI I know, this happens every damn week: I start with th… Click below to read the full story from TechCrunch
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