if life gives you writing requests…
Some time ago, I was requested to write a blog post about Microsoft Success by Design for Dynamics 365. It’s an awesome topic, but between work and family, my time and energy are too limited to embrace such a quest.
Having heard of Will robots take my job?, I thought that maybe I wanted robots to take my job this time (but only this time!). So I googled for the ChatGPT website and wrote what I wanted as detailed as possible, considering my limited knowledge of the Microsoft Success by Design for Dynamics 365:
Write a 500-words blog post about the Microsoft Success by Design for Dynamics
It took ChatGPT a couple of seconds to start writing, one word at a time, and less than one minute to write the complete text. It’s interesting that the text is written word by word, even with different time intervals between them, probably to give the impression that we are chatting with a human(ish) being instead of some scary know-it-all AI thing.
I continued happily working on other stuff, knowing deep in my soul that AI has already changed our lives and hoping that the automation risk from “Will robots take my job?” would stay low for whatever I do. After a few days, I decided to minimally take a look at a couple of articles about the topic. A quick look to this article revealed that the three stages described by ChatGPT (implementation, adoption, support) were not the actual four stages (initiate, implement, prepare, operate).
Learn from your mistakes
“There’s a bit of hidden magic in every mistake. The magic is called learning.” (Robert Kiyosaki)
I was a bit disappointed, but considering the time it would’ve taken to read extensive documentation to write a 500-word text, it was still a path I wanted to explore. My next move was to ask ChatGPT for the actual four stages:
Describe the four stages of the Microsoft Success by Design for Dynamics 365: initiate, implement, prepare and operate
We can say the first ChatGPT response was a mistake, but I wasn’t expecting an apology. Yet, I got a very elegant one:
I apologize for the confusion in my previous response. Microsoft Success by Design for Dynamics 365 methodology consists of stages that are slightly different from what I mentioned earlier. Here are the stages of the Microsoft Success by Design for Dynamics 365:
So, I decided to enrich my initial question to ChatGPT, considering my little-less-limited knowledge about the topic:
Write a 500-words blog post about the Microsoft Success by Design for Dynamics 365, describing the four stages: initiate, implement, prepare and operate
The result is a well-written text that is more accurate than the first one. Accurate? To what extent? That is something my still-limited knowledge about Microsoft Success by Design for Dynamics 365 can’t completely answer, but I’m pretty sure I could do a better evaluation in each iteration of getting an answer from ChatGPT, comparing the answer with some short articles and then enriching the question for ChatGPT to get a more accurate answer.
To AI, or not to AI, that is the question
Is it really a question anymore? Can we turn our back to AI once we tasted a bit of the endless possibilities it brings?
Once again, I decided to ask ChatGPT:
To AI, or not to AI, that is the question
And, once again, I was amazed by the answer:
Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The limitations of human intellect,
Or to take up arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing, end them?
To AI, or not to AI,
That is the question:
Whether ’tis wiser for humanity to embrace
The potential of artificial intelligence,
Or to resist it, and risk being left behind
In a world that’s rapidly changing.
To AI, or not to AI,
That is the question:
Whether ’tis better to use AI for good,
And to harness its power for the benefit of all,
Or to let it run rampant and unchecked,
And risk the consequences of its misuse.
To AI, or not to AI,
That is the question:
Ultimately, it is up to us to decide
How we will use this powerful tool,
And whether we will use it wisely and with care,
Or whether we will let it consume us.