Today I decided to learn more about ChatGPT. I realize that if I can add “ChatGPT skills” to my CV in someway my employability goes up. Now that I’m over my existential crisis I can focus on levelling up.
I also spent like 4 hours putting subtitles on videos and thankfully I found a virtual assistant to make that faster. When I went to edit this, I had not found that solution, so huzzah to productive days. We now on a learning and documentation mission, there are online courses to be made.
Once I’m done the first draft of this blog, I’d like to stream music making. I’ve not done that in ages, and I miss it. I’ve taken a long enough break from making music, we need to bang out some stuff. JS #NOREGARD been waiting for this. Got a lot to record.
Okay, I let the AI assistant write my title for me this time.
What is a ChatGPT anyway?
ChatGPT is an AI driven tool that uses a complex computer math to speak naturally with you. From what my brief time spent learning about ChatGPT has taught me (2 videos at the end) it was trained on the internet until September 2021.
In a more practical sense, it’s a Google like tool that answers your question as if someone was speaking to you. By now I feel like many of us have been exposed to what this looks like, especially since the Snapchat AI buddy appeared on our phones one day.
I know some of you refuse to use it, but you still know what it looks like. ChatGPT’s interface is pretty ugly, but its capabilities are surreal. It uses all the internet up until 2021 to answer your questions.
Instead of a bunch of links and descriptions, and a knowledge that SEO writers like Holden spent years diluting the first page of Google results with, it just summarizes everything it can find. It does this instantly.
Now despite its superpower ability to know what the internet says in a moment’s notice, it makes mistakes. Should you want to copy/paste and use ChatGPT content, you really want to review everything. It’s a powerful tool that’s been disconnected for almost 2 years.
Difference between free and Plus:
The free ChatGPT is 3.5 if I understand correctly and the paid one gives you ChatGPT 4. Basically, what really matters is 4 is smarter than 3.5 because it knows more words and understands more.
I see it like it’s probably worth investing in ChatGPT 4 as it’s 23 USD a month. If there’s no value in it, I can dip out at any time, but already I have found value in it. I got ChatGPT to write me a store about Chris Chrome and King K Da GOAT.
In theory if you have the free one it can block your access during periods where many people are using it at once. Priority is given to the richer class of premium users.
Upon a quick Googling, it looks like ChatGPT 4 is way better at longer and more complex tasks. So, if you really want to get into the full capabilities of having a virtual assistant think for you, the Plus version will help you get that with less errors.
In the future I’m going to learn the basic coding stuff to create macros and compound commands. There’s a way to string several sets of instructions at once so you can give ChatGPT very very specific sets of instructions with lots of variables you control.
But Holden, why would I even want to use this?
So ChatGPT is wild because it can pretty much do anything related to “writing” or “thinking” you can think of. Once you have your goal it’s a matter of asking ChatGPT with the right set of words.
Here’s a quick list of virtual assistant things you can ask ChatGPT to do:
Ask for facts/trivia from before Sept. 2021 – Funnily enough ChatGPT 4 doesn’t know that it exists.
Ask for suggestions – Whether you need titles, fashion advice or recipes based on available food
Math – For real, this thing can just do any math you need of all complexities, including coding.
Creative Criticism/Revisions – ChatGPT was able to describe the themes of my pre-Sept. 2021 music, I saw others get real deep feedback on their work. I’ve seen people get ChatGPT to rewrite their own work.
Roleplay – It can help you roleplay for interviews, or any other scenario you can think of that’s safe for work.
Project Manage – It can organize your work and give you plans of attack.
The more inventive and specific you are, the more this tool can help you. As an example, if you read my blog, you know job hunting has gone trash for me. Clearly my CV needed a revamp.
On a first attempt ChatGPT simply reformatted my CV and added a section. Then I said “rewrite this to impress a potential recruiter” and it did. Holy shit did it deliver.
Isn’t AI evil and replacing human capital?
It’s replacing human capital, but I don’t think it’s evil. Ahrefs has been helping SEO gurus for years perform magic online. These virtual assitants exist to enhance our workflows.
If you copy/paste your ChatGPT results into a file and don’t proofread it, you probably will look silly down the line. South Park already showed the danger in that. I definitely had to re-read what the rewrite for my CV said.
It took what I said and made things too sales oriented. I had to revise its text to reflect my customer service background. Because I can write well, I had to simply match the tone with my revisions.
I think my experience as a writer will let me work with ChatGPT to experience better results. For one thing I can teach it my writing style by uploading my blog content directly. The other side is I know what I would say and wouldn’t, so I can rewrite any part I don’t like to line up nicely with what it provides me.
The AI checkers that watch for ChatGPT use like a plagiarism checker are coming. We’re going to likely see a model appear where AI tools mixed with human creation will be valid creation. Otherwise, photo editors that leverage AI are in trouble.
Like with all things, AI will make poseur artists dip out the game. Commercial artists already soullessly deliver on corporate visions. Artist’s who want to make art will still find a way to make art.
Side note, CapCut is a game changer
I’ll segue into captions on videos. In the current TikTok/Reel climate, captioning every word, or most words, is a crucial task. I know I watch videos muted, so enough people must that this is now a standard.
I spent about an hour adding captions to a TikTok that is just under two minutes. Leveraging bad speech to text in Filmora I was able to also try my hand at this. Again, it took hours.
Today I found CapCut when I googled how people add captions on TikTok, then checked TikToks on it. Funnily enough web articles and YouTube failed me heavy. TikTok held me down.
This thing can, for free, add subtitles to videos with incredible accuracy. What took me an hour the other day is now going to take me less than 10 minutes. At the phase I’m at, my content requirements are going up, but I cannot afford to hire video editors.
To succeed as a musician, I need tools that let me edit my content faster and nicer. It’d be lovely to have the bread to hire everyone but that isn’t my reality. Instead, I will leverage the tools at my disposal to deliver more.
AI isn’t going to take away jobs from people in the way people think they will. AI will close redundancies the way machines in factories reduce the number of people who need to be there. Thing is, AI is going to replace soul crushing things people hated. Like transcribing captions.
The requirements of life are changing
When I grew up having the internet was a luxury. People wasted an incredible amount of time on filing papers into literal filing cabinets. There was a lot of weirdly mundane stuff people got paid to do, that we all felt made sense.
Over time those roles got replaced with new ones. A cell phone with OCR technology can scan a paper into a PDF file that is editable replacing the need for file cabinets. I’m sure some documents still need to be paper, but E-Sign is a real game changer in the world of document management.
Social media managers now are graphic designing copywriters with data analytics skills who can foster a community behind an arbitrary set of brand ideals. If you watched Mad Men, it would take an entire team to do what one person does for a company now.
I literally see jobs that ask for “fluent in emoji”.
What I think happens is the service industry explodes. Personalized specialist hustlers offering human experiences all over. Each using artificial intelligence to sanitize their humanity into something more marketable.
Human specialists will always matter. The AI is trained off the past and the future is created off our ingenuity. I do look forward to using ChatGPT to edit my future novels before I send them to editor to save me a buck or two.
Maybe I say all this from a position of confidence, but that comes from a willingness to embrace the future.
If jobs want AI, game on
Marketers musyt expected to know the basics of ChatGPT and other AI tools already. A lot of people cannot talk about their use of it publicly over silence clauses at work. That’s right, all your professional homies who really make money in day job land cannot sit there and brag readily on how much ChatGPT does for them.
I’m sure that ChatGPT isn’t necessarily sanctioned but is simply used. Already I can run this blog through it and have it make recommendations for optimization. Hang on, let’s see what it thinks of this.
As you can see, I need a few more keywords to expand to virtual assistant. This would broaden my reach. Let’s instead imagine I was really unclear, or off course, this would help me correct that quicker.
If there are ambiguous parts, it can help rewrite them or suggest better organization of thoughts. It can even organize my thoughts for me, Lord knows I need that.
When you consider the full range of things that need to be done, this tool, and others like Midjourney are a huge time saver. When people see the tomfoolery on social media, they ignore the parts where managers are needing to deliver more and more in less and less time.
If ChatGPT can take your project plan and assess a timeline that considers delays, so be it. I was slow and terrible at that part anyway.
Ride the wave or don’t
I’m not trying to convince you to use ChatGPT. In fact, it’s better for me if less people do it. I’m already late and would like a competitive edge moving forward.
I feel my attitude is shifting. The last blog I wrote was in a dismal tone. Then the universe heard my dismay and showed me that I do in fact have to learn new stuff.
However, I’ve levelled up already enough as a video editor to have more tools to do things quicker. This will let me bang out more content and achieve the greater marketing goals I have.
I’m especially motivated that I have a new virtual assistant and brainstorm buddy. Soon I’ll learn more about mixing my own music and more about AI tools that edit podcasts faster.
All of this is going to be a bit more money out of my pocket (store on this site if you want to contribute to the cause). However, these investments will give me the tools I need to prove how capable I am. It’s amazing how with the right focus you can change your mindset into a solution-oriented machine.
Live Long and Prosper Everyone
My Sources: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gaf_jCnA6mc
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