Using AI & ChatGPT in Your Job

So, also, as kind of finishing up here, because the class is going to be ending in just a couple of minutes. As far as how you can specifically use AI in your job, again, ask ChatGPT. One idea is to say, give me ideas of how you can make my job more efficient. Ask me any clarifying questions, so you could tell it something about your job.

Say, like, here's my job, this is what I do, here's files, here's examples of things that I need to do. Upload them into a chat, and say, like, give me ideas of how you can make my job better. Like, when it comes to efficiency, your job is unique to you and the things you need to produce.

So, ask it things that it can do to give you new ideas. Hopefully, you've already gotten some ideas of things we've covered today, but you can also have it tell you things of ways it can help you. Now, there are apps that you can use.

Mobile apps, there's also desktop apps as well. So, when it comes to the mobile app, for example, you can chat with voice or text. There's a little voice button here that you can use, and it's like you're having a phone call instead of a text chat.

And you can speak. When you're done, it's recorded all of what you've said and what they've said as a text chat. So, you're going to end up with a text chat, just like all the other text chats, but you spoke to it.

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And this is where it's kind of crazy, because you can speak to it. So, here, I'm going to pull this up here so everybody can see. Yeah, there we go.

I'm just going to pull this here so you can see my phone here. So, I'm going to create a new chat here, and there's this little button, just like you saw, right here. How's it going? Pretty good.

I'm teaching a class on ChatGPT here. Can you give them some ideas of how I can use you as a voice assistant? That's awesome. As a voice assistant, I can help with a variety of tasks.

For example, I can answer questions on different topics, help with language learning by providing translations or explanations, and even engage in role-play scenarios for training or education purposes. Plus, I can assist in practicing conversations for language or customer service skills. How's that for a start? Sounds pretty cool.

I'm glad you think so. There are plenty of creative ways to use a voice assistant in your class. Sorry, cut me off.

Never mind. It's an AI. So, there's all sorts of things you can do with this.

For example, you can do role-play, especially if you give it information. You don't have to be embarrassed talking to a real-life person who probably doesn't want to role-play with you. You can say, this is the type of customers I have.

Be a hard-to-get customer and let me role-play to try to convince you. Don't just give it translation. If you want to practice with a language, you can say, I'm learning Spanish.

Let's role-play. I'm going to a restaurant and I want to order. Be the waiter or waitress.

I'm going to try to order and try to take my order. Of course, you can talk. You can talk through things.

Do brainstorming activities and things. Sometimes it's faster just to type. Faster to talk than to type.

Also, the mobile app eventually, from what they've said, the reason this is called 4.0, as in Omni, is text, they started with. Voice, they now do. What about vision? Supposedly, you're going to be able to turn your camera on and it's going to start to look at things and know what you're looking at.

So, you could say, what is this building? What is this thing that I'm looking at? Tell me what plant this is. And the vision part is coming. Imagine if you're vision impaired or blind and having this read stuff or speak to you and you can point at things and say, what am I looking at? If you're color blind, what color is this thing? That's coming.

And that's the Omni part of this. We've got our text. We've got our voice.

And the vision is supposedly coming. So, to me, hopefully you've already gotten this idea here about that humans still need to be involved in all of this. It doesn't do things without our prompting.

It can help us. But we still need to be actively involved in this. We still need to be the arbiters of what's good, what's not good.

I would not let these AI agents just go and do stuff. I don't trust them well enough that they're good enough, that they're right enough to just go and do these things. So, if they're going to write a blog post, I'm not going to say write it, post it, and make it live, tweet it out to all of our followers.

No, I'm going to say write the blog post. I'll look at it. I'll adjust it as necessary before I post it and put it out there.

So, we still need to be involved in this sort of stuff. We still need to evaluate it. Is it good quality? Is it appropriate? Is it correct? Luckily, there's still a role for us.

No matter what, this is definitely going to change things. It's just a matter of how do we start adapting to it. And people are going to start to use it.

We need to figure out how we can use it. So, we can start to become more creative. We can do more with our time.

So, creativity. Problem solving. And also, if you get rid of the tedious stuff, now you can start to think about, like, what are some of the bigger things? Like, how can we be, you know, how can we help the human side of our businesses? Like, instead of just doing the tedious things that can burn people out, like, what should we be focusing our jobs on? Like, what are the bigger, harder questions to answer? And, like, how can we all kind of work together as a business? And, you know, I think leadership roles of how we can set a different tone within the company because maybe some of those tedious things are being done.

And now we can focus on different things. Technology changes things. It will be interesting to see how this changes things.

So, what you need to figure out, I think, is if some of the button pushing, if some of the tedious stuff can be done automatically, those are the roles that are most at risk. So, if you are somebody that can think, can be creative in problem solving, being creative in skills, what AI right now is not thinking about is kind of what questions should you be asking? What things should you be thinking of doing? It's not good at doing that stuff, at least not yet. So, how can you sort of stand out and what value can you add if it's not just the pushing the buttons or, like, now it's easier to create visuals for data analysis, for example.

Well, what are the questions that you should be asking? How can you ask those questions? Not everybody thinks that way. So, you're going to get better as you do this. So, start using it regularly.

Practice, practice, practice. Focus on the writing quality. Try to figure out ways you can save time.

Figure out ways to do things better. Be more creative. Try things out.

Don't be afraid. I'm not going to break it. It does take offense.

So, be creative. Try things out. See what it does.

And be specific. It cannot read your mind. So, craft your prompts as detailed as possible, and you're going to get a much better result.

And just try things out. So, also there are desktop apps now. Actually, they just released it for Windows.

They didn't have it for Windows for the longest time. It was a Mac-only one. So, there is the Mac one, the Windows one.

They also have the iOS and Android mobile apps. But the desktop apps for Mac and Windows. Now, you do need a new Apple Silicon Mac.

So, if you have an older Intel-based Mac, it doesn't work on the older Intel-based Macs. So, you might have to buy a new computer, potentially. I'm just waiting for my new Apple Silicon Mac.

I had an old Intel Mac. So, I'm like, I can't run the thing. Right in the very beginning, it was just a matter of just kind of like the website as an app.

But the desktop apps are getting more powerful. For example, you can do the voice part in the desktop app. But also, they're starting to integrate with other things.

For example, now the desktop app can talk to my code editor. So, they can talk to Visual Studio Code or to Xcode. And they can look at the code in there and start to analyze it.

They can't change it yet. But at least they can look there to say, oh, here's some problems with it. Or here's what this does.

So, they're starting to integrate it with other apps. And I wouldn't be surprised if in the future, it'll start to be able to control your computer. Because other competing AIs, like Claude, are now doing computer control, where you can tell it to do something on your computer.

And it will actually do it. So, I wouldn't be surprised if in the future, ChatGPT does that as well through their desktop app. Although they don't have that feature just yet.

So, for now, it doesn't offer a ton of extra stuff that you can't get either on mobile or the website. But they're starting to get it more powerful so it can do more stuff. So, at some point, I think the desktop app will continue to get better and better.

So, maybe we'll start migrating towards that versus the website. For now, for the most part, you can do everything between the mobile app or the website. You don't have to have that desktop app.

Except the first feature I saw was that integrating with the code editor. That's the first desktop app-specific thing that I've seen. But in the future, it's going to get vision so it'll be able to see what you're doing on your computer.

Which I don't think the website will be able to do because websites generally can't read your screen. So, the vision part is still coming. We're still waiting on that.

Imagine if ChatGPT could just see what you're doing and then help you to do something while you're doing. So, it's only going to get better. It's only going to be more stuff.

So.