This week, we have:

● Breaking news of the week.

● How to use ChatGPT for Microsoft Excel

● Prompt of the day

Read time: 3 mins

_{NEWS OF THE WEEK}

AI Predictions for 2025;

By 2025, fully autonomous AI agents will handle many repetitive tasks, not just returning answers but making decisions and coordinating with other agents. Read more.

Why should you care?

• Solving Complex Problems: Autonomous agents can tackle problems too complex for humans or traditional AI, like optimizing city traffic flow or managing personalized medical treatments in real-time. This opens doors to solving previously intractable challenges.

• Creating Novel AI Architectures: Developing these agents requires new approaches to AI architecture, blending areas like reinforcement learning, natural language processing, and robotics. This pushes the field forward by demanding innovative solutions.

• Building the Foundation for AGI: While not AGI themselves, autonomous agents are a crucial stepping stone. They force us to confront challenges of general intelligence like planning, decision-making, and adaptation in dynamic environments, informing the path towards more general AI.

• Directly Impacting the Future of Work: These agents will redefine automation, moving beyond simple tasks to complex workflows. AI enthusiasts can be at the forefront of this shift, shaping how AI integrates into industries and impacts human roles.

 ChatGPT and Sora are down for the second time this month

ChatGPT, Sora, and OpenAI’s developer-facing API went down Thursday for an hour and counting. OpenAI says it started experiencing a major outage at 11 a.m. PT, and the services still appear to be down when publishing this article, Read more.

ChatGPT Search can be tricked into misleading users, new research reveals

ChatGPT Search, an AI-powered search engine that went live this month, can be fooled into generating completely misleading summaries, U.K. newspaper The Guardian has found.  Read more.

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PROMPT OF THE DAY

_{CHATGPT PROMPT (Turn ChatGPT into Your Intern)}

"Research and write a comprehensive report on [insert subject], addressing the key challenges/problems related to [specific aspect of the subject]. The report should include a practical, step-by-step guide enabling readers to [specific, measurable outcome, e.g., implement a specific strategy, solve a particular problem, achieve a certain result]. Consider including case studies or examples to illustrate the steps."