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I was impressed with ChatGPT and the early stuff but this is getting both scary and fascinating.
Post what you know or want to talk about, like the video below. The only thing I could pick out is their repetitive hand movements which aren't that far off.
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The AI thing reacts and sounds just like the fucking witch office administrator at my old firm. Of course, she sounded like that from the day I met her 25 years ago. If there's another video where it claims that all of its bad decisions were a mandate from the partners, I'll really be creeped out. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Frazod:
The AI thing reacts and sounds just like the ****ing witch office administrator at my old firm. Of course, she sounded like that from the day I met her 25 years ago. If there's another video where it claims that all of its bad decisions were a mandate from the partners, I'll really be creeped out.
I try (stress 'try') to look at our future through a history lens so when I'm looking at AI, I kind of see it as when the first PCs were introduced in the early 90's. It may have been earlier but that's my reference frame.
Don't think anyone really knows how it's going to go but I'm certain history will repeat itself in the sense below.
Try to keep up. Get at least a basic knowledge how it will affect your employment. Play around with because it's actually very interesting.
Chat GPT has been pretty great. If you view it as an assistant that makes you more efficient instead of replacing something or change your life (some people go overboard on AI and it feels like it always fails them)
Everyone has different needs obviously but for me its ability to extract, compile, organize, then export data in different ways has been very helpful.
I have been doing a lot of work figuring out some wage changes for people in my department so doing something like taking a payscale that has 15 steps over the span of 5 years makes for a lot of different numbers. I could ask what the payscale looks like if the new base pay is x and scale that change in percentage across the whole scale. It looked at the payscale document and did it instantly. I know that is not math that changes the world and it can also be done in excel but again it was done so quickly and presented in any way I like as a table or chart or whatever.
Another example is sometimes the people in HR are dipshits and seem to get people's pay wrong. I had two documents one listing the payscale I referenced above and another listing the wage and seniority of everyone in my deaprtment. I asked Chat GPT to compare those two documents and see if everything lines up. Of course it showed a discrepancy in expected wage vs actual wage for one of my people and it became a thing.
I don't use it to "create" written documents for me but I will generally take a long email I have written and ask it to polish it...catching some style issues that make me not an ideal technical writer.
The list goes on and on from there...I use it for some personal budgeting stuff but it is an interesting tool.
Of course it depends on what you give it and how you communicate. I have generally found when it makes a mistake it is because I was unclear in what I asking of it. [Reply]
Originally Posted by |Zach|:
Chat GPT has been pretty great. If you view it as an assistant that makes you more efficient instead of replacing something or change your life (some people go overboard on AI and it feels like it always fails them)
Everyone has different needs obviously but for me its ability to extract, compile, organize, then export data in different ways has been very helpful.
I have been doing a lot of work figuring out some wage changes for people in my department so doing something like taking a payscale that has 15 steps over the span of 5 years makes for a lot of different numbers. I could ask what the payscale looks like if the new base pay is x and scale that change in percentage across the whole scale. It looked at the payscale document and did it instantly. I know that is not math that changes the world and it can also be done in excel but again it was done so quickly and presented in any way I like as a table or chart or whatever.
Another example is sometimes the people in HR are dipshits and seem to get people's pay wrong. I had two documents one listing the payscale I referenced above and another listing the wage and seniority of everyone in my deaprtment. I asked Chat GPT to compare those two documents and see if everything lines up. Of course it showed a discrepancy in expected wage vs actual wage for one of my people and it became a thing.
I don't use it to "create" written documents for me but I will generally take a long email I have written and ask it to polish it...catching some style issues that make me not an ideal technical writer.
The list goes on and on from there...I use it for some personal budgeting stuff but it is an interesting tool.
Of course it depends on what you give it and how you communicate. I have generally found when it makes a mistake it is because I was unclear in what I asking of it.
(the post above is me writing quick and dirty just making a random CP post. The post below is the "polished" version of the same text I had Chat GPT punch up. It looks like they did not want me calling HR dipshits :-))
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I've found ChatGPT to be a really useful tool—when you treat it as an assistant that enhances efficiency rather than something that will replace work or drastically change your life. Some people expect too much from AI and end up disappointed when it doesn’t meet unrealistic expectations.
Of course, everyone’s needs are different, but for me, its ability to extract, compile, organize, and export data in various formats has been incredibly helpful.
Lately, I’ve been working on wage adjustments for my department, which involves analyzing a payscale with 15 steps spread over five years. That means dealing with a lot of different numbers. With ChatGPT, I can input a new base pay and have it scale that change across the entire structure in percentages instantly. Sure, this kind of calculation isn’t groundbreaking and could be done in Excel, but the speed and flexibility of getting the results in a table, chart, or whatever format I need make it a great tool.
Another example: HR sometimes gets people’s pay wrong. I had two documents—one with the official payscale and another listing employees’ wages and seniority. I asked ChatGPT to compare them and flag any discrepancies. Sure enough, it found a mismatch between an employee’s expected wage and their actual pay, which led to a necessary conversation.
I don’t use it to generate written documents, but I do have it refine my emails, helping me catch stylistic issues and improve clarity since technical writing isn’t my strong suit.
Beyond that, I use it for personal budgeting and other tasks—there are a lot of interesting applications. Ultimately, how well it works depends on what you put into it and how clearly you communicate your requests. When it makes mistakes, I usually find that it’s because I wasn’t specific enough in my instructions. [Reply]
