ChatGPT - Nice!

[XR250]

Just tried it out today "proofreading" a report I hurried thru that was basically just bullet points. It is amazing how nice of a report it created.
Man, I cannot even fathom the job losses that are coming.

 

[phamENG]

I've been contemplating using it for reports. Feed in all my reports from the last several years to train it on my general style and tone (see if it works, anyway), and then feed in a list of bullet points and associated image files and see what it gives me. I have a project coming up in a couple weeks that will be a good test for it. Worst that happens is it's complete garbage and I've only lost an hour or two of experimenting, and then I write the report normally.

 

[benny12]

I am finding it incredibly helpful for marketing tasks, mostly because I’m good at technical writing not marketing BS. Example: we needed a new tag line for one of our services, 4 of us were supposed to give a few options each. I submitted 4, all AI generated and of the 14 to 16 options my 4 were clear front runners.

I also used it to validate a complex probability calculation, but relied on my calc not the AI. I don’t know when I will cite AI in a report, but I bet it will happen before I retire.

 

[phamENG]

I don’t know when I will cite AI in a report, but I bet it will happen before I retire.

Meh. I would still never cite Wikipedia. The sources cited in Wikipedia? Sure. But an encyclopedia isn't a source...it's a background. AI is similar (for now). It will digest information and spit it out again...hopefully in a usable format. But the good ones cite their sources for the regurgitation. So if I want to really use it, I'll go to those sites. So in those instances it's more like a hyper focused search engine.

Will it change? Probably. Certainly. But we have a very long way to go before it'll be able to reason its way into being a source in and of itself.

I'll use it to summarize information - it's come in handy for executive summaries of reports (I hate trying to pare down a technical report for easy reading by non-technical individuals...doable, but not my favorite task)...so I'm interested in pushing what I perceive as its current boundaries within my little slice of the world. So I won't let it give me content for a report, but I'll let it manipulate my content into a report for me to proof read.