OpenAI has introduced a service for creating customized chat GPT for specific tasks. A user successfully built a chat GPT to analyze PDFs by instructing it to extract major themes, express in simple language, pull out important statistics, summarize stories for a magazine lead, and memorize the entire text. Testing the GPT with known papers showed impressive results, including highlighting missed statistics in an elite college admissions paper and accurately summarizing the clinical psychology paper of the user's wife.
Today’s episode is about thinking practically about the AI revolution. Yes, it may one day usher in some now unthinkable utopia or dystopia. But in the meantime, our imperfect world exists, and your imperfect job exists, and you face a forced choice: Should you use this technology? And if so, how do you make it work for you? Kevin Roose, a tech columnist for The New York Times and the host of the podcast 'Hard Fork,' talks about how generative AI tools are already changing his job and others, including in medicine, consulting, and software development.
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Host: Derek Thompson
Guest: Kevin Roose
Producer: Devon Manze
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