Video for new ChatGPT users

Have you not gotten around to trying ChatGPT for yourself yet?

Ethan and Lilach Mollick have released a series of YouTube videos that encapsulate some current insights, aimed at beginners, posted on Aug. 1, 2023. It covers ChatGPT, Bing, and Bard. Everyday free users are using these tools.

Practical AI for Instructors and Students Part 2: Large Language Models (LLMs)

If you are already using ChatGPT, then this video will probably feel too slow. However, they do have some tips that amateurs could learn from even if they have already experimented. E. Mollick says of LLMs “they are not sentient,” but it might be helpful to treat them as if they are. He also recommends thinking of ChatGPT like an “intern” which is also how Mike formulated his suggestion back in April.

I used GPT-3.5 a few times this week for routine work tasks. I am not a heavy user, but if any of our readers are still on the fence, I’d encourage you to watch this video and give it a try. Be a “complement” to ChatGPT.
I’ll be posting new updates about my own ChatGPT research soon – the errors paper and also a new survey on trust in AI.
I hear regular complaints from my colleagues all over the country about poor attempts by college students to get GPT to do their course work. The experiment is being run.
Ethan Mollick has been a good Twitter(X) follow for the past year, if you want to keep up with the evolution and study of Large Language Models. https://twitter.com/emollick/status/1709379365883019525
Scott wrote this great recent tutorial on the theory behind the tools: Generative AI Nano-Tutorial
It was only back in December 2023 that I did a live ChatGPT demonstration in class, and figured that I was giving my students there first ever look at LLMs. Today, I’d assume that all my students have tried it for themselves.
In my paper on who will train for tech jobs, I conclude that the labor supply of programmers would increase if more people enjoyed the work. LLMs might make tech jobs less tedious and therefore more fun. If labor supply shifts out, then quantity should increase and wages should fall – good news for innovative businesses.