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Steve in Kenosha, Wisconsin asked: “Hi guys Just calling to check on What you think of ChatGTP. I use it right now to – I throw in my what I want the email to say and it writes a nice two or three paragraph email instead of me going ‘Hey when this coming?’ It makes it look a little more professional. Just curious what your guys are thoughts are on what the best use of Ai is today, kind of more towards business of course.”
Steve, the best use of Ai today is likely picky but unimportant work, the kind of things you need to get done but its not a huge problem if they go wrong or get delayed.
That is mainly for 2 big reasons:
1) Ai chatbots still make things up, theyre giving you something that looks like a response should look but sometimes the content is just wrong, so you could say ask when this is coming? skim through the email and decide that its correct pretty easily, but it will be harder to stop the error in cell E63 of a spreadsheet that may derail the rest of the spreadsheet and cost you money.
2) The one thing we know for sure and the one thing that no company is trying to hide right now is that at current prices Ai is not financially viable. So youre better off trying to stick to giving it things that are not business critical in case it gets too expensive.
Another thing you may want to consider is that the first thing that you see when you open an email in the gmail UI is Summarize this email so you may just be adding paragraphs for the recipient to have them removed.
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