ChatGPT's user experience and implementation 'should have Google scared'

TechCrunch Newsletter [TechCrunch logo]( [The Daily Crunch logo]( By [Christine Hall]( and [Haje Jan Kamps]( Friday, December 02, 2022 Heeeey! Today has been a fun, rich, and varied day of news on your favorite tech news site. Haje got the unfortunate news that he will be attending his 15th CES in Las Vegas, so if you’re going with your startup, [the TC hardware team wants to hear from you](. Oh, and we have a slew of gift guides coming up — [here’s a sneaky preview for the first few](, if you want some inspiration for getting the jump on your holiday shopping. — [Christine]( and [Haje]( [ image] Image Credits: Carol Yepes / Getty Images The TechCrunch Top 3 - [The answers to all of life’s important questions](: Generative artificial intelligence has come a long way, and many of our colleagues took OpenAI’s ChatGPT for a ride, including [Darrell](, who asked the all-important question about Pokémon strengths and weaknesses. While you’re at it, check out [Kyle](’s story on OpenAI’s [release of GPT-3.5](. - [A new face](: Shein is embracing its third-party business by bringing on Jessica Liu, the former co-president at the Southeast Asian e-commerce giant Lazada. [Rita]( has more. - [One surprising delay for India, one giant “whew” for retailers](: [Manish]( writes that India is delaying a market share cap on the Unified Payments Interface payments network until 2025. This is a win — for now — for companies like Google and Walmart, which own a large share of it. [Care In Space Challenge Demo Day - Dec. 6 | FREE TICKETS]( Sponsored by [Starburst Aerospace]( [Join Boryung, Axiom Space, & Starburst Aerospace to discover the future of space health development on Dec. 6 in L.A featuring live pitches, keynotes, panels, and networking. Register today for FREE.]( [Register Now]( Startups and VC Smoodi wants to see its smoothies in the hands of, well, everyone, and it [closed $5 million to expand the reach for its robotic smart blender](, [Christine]( reports. Not gonna lie: we prefer smoothie robots over robots being used to kill people. See [Brian](’s article about how [the police department in San Francisco can now use robots to kill people](. In other robot news, also from Brian, [Monarch delivers its first “smart tractor.”]( Meanwhile, it seems like Mozilla is on a buying spree. Today, [Kyle]( reports that it [acquired Active Replica to build on its metaverse vision](, and yesterday, [Paul]( wrote that [the company snapped up the team behind Pulse](, an automated status updater for Slack. Another fistful of news stories to brighten your day: - Hitting the brakes: [Kirsten]( reports that Hyundai-backed autonomous vehicle startup [Motional cuts workforce](. - From container ships to $60,000 Jet Skis: [Haje]( reports that YC-backed Boundary Layer pivots [from container ships to hydrofoiling personal watercraft](, despite claiming to have $90 million worth of preorders for the former. - We can still go deeper: [Connie]( speaks with a secondary market pro who thinks [we haven’t hit bottom quite yet](, but he sees the price drops slowing, finally. - Uncovering skincare: Kenya’s [Uncover raises $1 million to expand skincare]( product enterprise across Africa, [Annie]( reports. - You, but artier: [Amanda]( reports that [Lensa AI climbs the App Store charts](as its AI-enhanced “magic avatars” that look like you go hella viral. [Pitch Deck Teardown: Hour One's $20M Series A deck]( Startups are approaching language learning from every angle: Hour One uses AI to deploy avatars that turn text into video. In 2020, its founders raised a $5 million seed round, but earlier this year, it raised $20 million more via a Series A. Here’s a complete breakdown of the company’s unredacted 11-slide deck: - Cover slide - “At a glance” summary slide - Solution slide - Market size slide - Value proposition slide - Product slide 1 - Product slide 2 - Target audience slide - Case study slide - Team slide - Closing slide Haje takes a look at the good, the bad, and the ugly in the company’s $20 million series A pitch deck. Three more from the TC+ team: - Bird is the word:[Bird’s plan to stay in the shared scooter game,]( by[Rebecca](. - Robots writing words: [Alex]( is relieved that [ChatGPT isn’t putting him out of a job yet,]( concluding that it’s a lot of fun. - Going down, in some places:[Startup valuations are declining — but not consistently](, writes [Becca]( in her latest piece. [TechCrunch+]( is our membership program that helps founders and startup teams get ahead of the pack.[You can sign up here](. Use code “DC” for a 15% discount on an annual subscription! [Read More]( [Pitch Deck Teardown: Hour One's $20M Series A deck image] Image Credits: TechCrunch Big Tech Inc. As we sift through [Elon Musk’s tweet regarding hate speech today](, we have to point out there’s been a lot of “FAFO” going on in the Twitterverse, and Kanye West is the latest to FO what happens when he FAs. Just a little over a month after Kanye was reinstated on Twitter, [Elon Musk suspended his account]( again for breaking the social media giant’s rules,[Ivan]( writes. This also comes as West decides he [isn’t buying Parler](after all. [Darrell]( has more. Meanwhile, in the world of corporate shake-ups, [Mary Ann]( delivers a primo headline for her [story on Opendoor’s CEO Eric Wu](, who stepped down today, while [Aria]( reports that space company Astra is restructuring its management team [after Benjamin Lyon resigns](. Enjoy the start of your weekend with four more: - Breaker, we got ourselves a semi: [Rebecca]( brings us news that Tesla delivered its [long-awaited Semi truck]( and that the car maker is[offering a discount]( for its Model 3, Model Y deliveries in December. - Exposed in the Sunshine State: [Zack]( writes that a security flaw in Florida’s state tax website[led to the exposure of hundreds of filers’ data](. - More representation: Activision Blizzard workers in Albany [voted to form a union](, the company’s second one,[Amanda]( reports. - Just in time?: Payment giant Stripe is the latest to offer a [fiat-to-crypto on-ramp widget]( so that people can hold cryptocurrencies without having to sign up for a currency exchange. [Romain]( has more. 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