What was your first experience with ChatGPT? 🎂
🎉 HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ChatGPT! 🎉 Reflecting on how AI has impacted my life over the past year, I can’t help but appreciate the ways ChatGPT has become an indispensable tool in my daily work: 📈 Boosting productivity: I can work much faster by focusing on reviewing content instead of starting from scratch. 🧮 Validating ideas: It helps me double-check my calculations and assumptions, avoiding potential missteps before they happen. 🎭 Adapting communication: From formal to friendly, or even highly technical, ChatGPT helps me adjust my tone and approach to suit different audiences. 💡 Turning ideas into action: Whether it's generating proposals or refining concepts, what used to take hours now happens in minutes. Before hitting "Post," I even asked ChatGPT to refine this text—talk about meta! What are your thoughts on AI tools like ChatGPT? Are they changing the way you work too?
I had access to beta 2 in 2019. The performance was impressive even back then. So I decided to let it write two paragraphs of a (nonfiction) book I was writing at the time - from the ca. 100 chars of input it would accept at the time, the paragraphs came out extremely well. So I gave 5 different Cambridge proofreaders the task to find the machine-created parts in the manuscript. No one even found one single sentence. That is what encouraged me to announce the AI challenge at the San Francisco B2B shark tank conference in Nov 2019: The first buyer of the book to find at least 5 openAI-generated sentences would receive $10,000 from my private pocket. The audience laughed "What a fool! Easy money." I answered "Let's see. Your jobs might be gone sooner than my money." Until this day no one ever found a single sentence or claimed the prize.
November 30, 2022, h 23:15 (Italian time zone): “How can you help me?” [ChatGPT replied...] “What coaching techniques do you know?” [ChatGPT answered...]; at which point I got 'distracted' and asked IN ITALIAN: "Puoi creare un nuovo slogan per la mia attività di coaching?" and ChatGPT answered me quite naturally IN PERFECT ITALIAN... and I fell out of my chair!
My first experience with ChatGPT was truly memorable. It was late on a Thursday when my manager asked me to draft a document after a long chain of emails. Feeling pressed for time, I copied the email thread into ChatGPT and requested a draft. Within moments, it generated a response that required no edits. The accuracy and efficiency left me amazed—it was a game-changing, jaw-dropping moment. 😮😲🤯
My first experience was using ChatGPT to generate code for my Master's thesis. Some odd day I just read about ChatGPT and thought to give it a try. But after giving the prompt to generate the code that I was working on since last 6 months. What ChatGPT wrote literally blew my mind. Huge shoutout to OpenAI for launching it for public and bringing Google and Google DeepMind back on the ground 😉
I discovered ChatGPT-3 by accident. My kids were writing these fake stories with it and I decided to check it out to see what the hype was about. I asked it to generate a statement. I was impressed. Then, I asked it write an HTML file that I was sure it could not do… when it generated a fully working HTML-based game, that was it for me.
Been using ChatGPT since early 2023, and wow - what a journey! From its early 'no filter' days to now sometimes treating every response like a delicate diplomatic mission. As someone passionate about ethical AI, I love the thoughtful evolution... but I can't help but laugh when I ask for lunch ideas and get a carefully worded essay on the sociocultural implications of sandwich choices 😂 The sweet spot? Where AI can be both mindful AND real - like how we handle actual conversations without turning every coffee chat into an ethics seminar! While this thoroughness has its place, I find myself missing those more balanced exchanges. If anyone finds ChatGPT's ability to have a normal conversation, please return it. Until then, I'll be here getting ethics lectures about my sandwich choices.
What I learned in the first few hours is that AI won’t do the work for me, simply because it can’t yet. AI executes exactly what I tell it to do, but it’s not a mind reader, so tasks need to be defined with extreme precision. This level of precision often requires as much time as it would take to write the code myself. To formulate a task description so accurately, I also need to know the solution in detail. In other words, for now, AI mainly helps me by taking over tasks I’m too lazy to type myself. However, it excels at providing new perspectives, alternative approaches, and quickly analyzing trends from the internet. I mostly use it for such purposes, and for these, it’s a very convenient and useful tool.
Obviously probed it on consciousness, philosophy, and other weird topics of my liking
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