Si the fashionable distraction at the end of the 1990s was to sift one’s entourage through search engines to see who was referenced on the Internet, if that of the late 2000s insisted on entering their address on Google Street View to see if the shutters of his home were open or closed on the day the Google car passed, the late evenings of January 2023, they are busy testing the ChatGPT text generator tool to see if and how artificial intelligence could do our job for us.
It’s not just students checking whether ChatGPT can write their master’s theses; the developers ask him to write lines of code, the communicators to find a slogan for a brand of diapers, the nutrition coaches to establish menus to lose 15 kilos. Now representatives of all trades are trying to appreciate the latest advantages of their profession on artificial intelligence.
How do we recognize them?
They thought they were going to try ChatGPT and they spent the whole evening on it. They begin by asking him to do their job and they end up asking him how many bottles of champagne are needed for a party of a hundred people or whether to say “pain au chocolat” or “chocolatine”. Very quickly, they got to asking questions they had already asked Siri (“Can you put pineapple on a pizza? »).
They hesitate to find the results bluffing or, on the contrary, a little stupid. They publish the answers to their request on social networks. They waste a lot of time commenting on the results in long posts explaining how the tool will save them a lot of time. They have lots of ideas of what they could have used ChatGPT for in their work last year, but still none of what they could do with it this year. They consider that there are professions which have to be taken care of, mainly those of others.
how they talk
“We will save so much time. » “ChatGPT works very well for language elements and jargon. “I looked at the text that a historian had written on Saint-Barthélemy. There were plenty of mistakes, but I didn’t see them…” “In financial litigation, he knows nothing. » “There is interest in having a job that requires humor, because ChatGPT sucks at puns. » “It must cost them a lot to run it the time to become essential. » “It’s fun at first. » “I know someone who uses it on a daily basis to do all their follow-up letters. »
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