It’s a clear signal that GAI is being normalized. The Wall Street Journal is publishing lists of end user AI tools. Not one popular useful tool but, over a dozen tools and all revenue generating. This rate of commercialization and stabilization is much faster than the internet platform shift and looks like it will be more valuable.
This should be interesting to observe as the user base of these tools doubles and doubles again.
I expect that given the utility of ChatGPT used for business, API access and plug-in store, that OpenAI will have over 1B users in 2023.
The company will go back to being a not-for-profit institute in 5 or so years.
And, Sam Altman will be one of the most recognizable people on earth.
It’s one thing to see a list on a new newsletter from some random gen-z Podcaster or some listical on Buzzfeed or Vice.
This is the Wall Street Journal. That’s incredible, but obviously, business leaders have figured out adoption and the tech industry is delivering with minimized scandals across 7 months since the release of ChatGPT.
If you haven’t tried any of the new AI tools, it’s probably time that you should especially if you’re in a job right now and you use a computer.
Don’t say I didn’t warn you. It’s time to join the crowds and figure out your own use cases instead of waiting for it to change your job and your company in ways you don’t understand. Changes in technology go through the same stages as grief. It’s a sign of a new technology wave occurring when there is a lot of denial going on, followed by anger and outrage… those are all the articles about how AI will never replace — ”fill in the blank”. Try not to be comfortable in that bias. When you start hearing the “I didn’t see it coming” articles, that’s when you should start paying attention.
So, what should you do?
Here is a 12 step program.
- Subscribe to chatGPT today. Yes pay for it.
- Copy and paste your latest resume into it and have it act as an HR consultant and have it improve your resume.
- Get a Midjourney account and pay for it. Search TikTok #midjourney and copy ideas until you can generate pictures you like based on your interests.
- Search for the terms, zero shot, chain of thought, and reflection all with the additional term ChatGPT. Learn these terms. It’s important.
- Understand that using ChatGPT and other GAI chatbots are a conversation not just a question and answer session.
- Pick a pilot project you lead and have all the team members use ChatGPT to help during the project as a creation and editing tool. Use it together.
- Keep your eyes open. Find the Snake Oil AI newsletter and read it once a week to stay balanced. There are negative players in this field.
- Write a letter to your local government representative. Ask them what they are doing to protect your rights as new technology rolls out. Start with your privacy rights and your right to access information and new AI capabilities. Run your letter through a session with ChatGPT before sending it and ask it to improve the letter in your voice.
- On the weekend, spend a couple of hours in one session with ChatGPT exploring one topic deeply until you run out of tokens. It is like a conversation with an intern and a creative consultant all at once.
- Explore a topic you know very little about that you want to learn more about like yoga, knee pain or martial arts. Spend time asking questions and learning more about it as if you were learning and asking questions of an expert. Now, check all the work with other sources in a library or the way you would check the work now professionally.
- Ask ChaptGPT if it knows anything about you. They ask it to generate a news article in your voice. Check the work.
- After 11… first thing in the morning soon after you’re done, call a friend and explain your journey… the good the bad and the ugly… if you can record the call do so. It will be an interesting artifact in the future.
The future is now.
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