Maybe, but if doing that was my full time job then I would instantly feel less valuable and less secure.
I just don't buy the argument that AI/automation frees up time to do more valuable work at the individual level. Sure it's great for the organization. But if your job became obsolete tonight, simultaneously with thousands of other people, what "high value activities" would you do to earn money? I'm not saying that has happened but the day may be coming for us "knowledge workers".
The trend here is that knowledge work is becoming less valuable. Not everyone will be able to rise above the machines in this category.
Luckily we can probably still clean houses for a living, since it appears that robots will be able to write good code before they can wash dishes or make a bed.
Maybe the thing start doing when new technologies come along is ask "how can we rearrange ourselves so that now everyone works less time than they did before?"
To some the price is acceptable, to others the price seems like it forces them 'to work as much as humanly possible regardless of how much stuff actually needs to be done'.
People can have different desires. Nothing confusing in there.
Visited Nairobi a few years back, and one of my partner’s local friends was complaining about the rent (one year for her in Nairobi was less than one month for me in Cambridge, because it was locals bidding against other locals for rent in both cases), but that friend was still able to get a smart phone (albeit a cheaper model than most people here would be OK with).
Could I ask, how do you do that?
I can find the documentation online but its just much faster to get chatGPT to do it.
One of the things I really like about it is that it's not always perfect, yet still provides some really useful texts. It usually takes me a few tries to get exactly what I'm looking for, but it's definitely worth it. I've had a lot of fun using the generator to reimagine classic stories with different characters (I loved Cindirella one in but like in Blade setting).
Even with the help of the model's statistics, I still feel like I have a lot of ownership over the text that I create with the generator. It's kind of like ordering from a fast food restaurant instead of cooking from scratch - you still have certain expectations based on the statistics, like food safety or meat content, but you don't have to worry about all the details.
Having a tool like this to assist me with my writing is really appreciated. I can be a bit chaotic when I write, so having a tool that helps me organize my thoughts is a huge help. I can't wait for the text generator to be commercialized so I don't have to worry about timeouts anymore.
I’m trying to imagine what other interfaces could expose value from these existing AI tools value simply by making it easier and as low effort as possible.
Similar to how GitHub Copilot/Tabnine automatically suggests completions as unobtrusively as possible without requiring a lot of manual intervention. Just as an extension.
Once we have a google glasses type augmented reality this sort of light automated assistance can be fed automatically into our lives. Just by hearing or looking at something it could turn it into an automated prompts and be unobtrusively suggested or visually fed into our lives. Auto-translation of foreign languages is the obvious AI example with AR.
Maybe other interfaces such as direct MacOS integration the way the smart search box/Alfred style works or browser extensions.
We are truly at an inflection point.
https://openai.com/api/pricing/
You get some free usage, and then pay per token after that. Once you've done that you can play with chatGPT for free, as of now. It does time out fairly frequently since so many people are playing with it.
There are lots of people obsessing about feeling threatened in what they do by all this. It's an understandable response but not necessarily a productive attitude. It's really just an opportunity to reconsider what it is you do exactly and become better and more efficient at that. Perhaps if you spend most of your time trying to produce slides, designs, etc., freeing up some of that time for more high value activities is not such a bad thing and something that you should have been striving to do anyway. In our case, using our refined pitch to drive sales is what we should be doing. Spending time to refine the pitch is a necessary evil and not the main thing we should do or even want to do. So, this is an enabler not a threat for us.
I'm actually a CTO; so me spending time on sales pitches is not the most obvious use of my time. But in a small startup, if something needs doing, I probably need to be involved. So, anything that makes that more efficient is more than welcome.