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It's very strange to me that there are still people who question the use of ChatGPT, or who fail to apprehend its import. (This is less a comment on your post, with which I agree, and more of a general comment about people refusing to see all the opportunity that this technology creates.)

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Count me in that group. AFAICT GPT currently gives generic, and inconsistent, responses to questions and is unable to understand validity as a concept. As far as Arnold's list goes, mentor creator stands out as an poor application for where GPT stands. Would you create a mentor for yourself with GPT knowing that it is willing to give false (and easily falsifiable) answers with high confidence? Would you like to read a newsletter written by a person who was incapable of distinguishing facts from things they have heard?

Functionally GPT chat right now is the equivalent of a high volume internet poster who thinks he knows everything about everything, and the marginal value of another one of those is not even zero, its clearly currently negative.

I absolutely think that you could make money with GPT right now (if you had permanent access) as a copywriter tripling your output, or to pad out the script for the next vehicle for The Rock to star in, but even creating an influencer is going to be tough. Its extremely competitive and there are many failures for every success, and a great number of those successes started from a position of fame of some kind (and many of them already are doing this with other people managing their social media accounts anyway).

Information is massively available and mostly free which means the greatest value around is in the curation of information- and this is a test that GPT currently fails at.

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I am going to age myself (badly). I learnt to touch-type with Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing.

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I learned to type in typing class in high school. Do schools still offer those classes? I took two years of it- first manual typewriters, then electric. One of the most useful, and probably the most useful skill I learned in high school.

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My college advisor said I wouldn’t need it-maybe the only time his advice was really wrong. At college I earned some money typing up, and improving, some papers by upperclassmen.

Don’t like typing on my tablet where I often read blogs, like now.

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ChatGPT is set to become the greatest plagiarist of all time.

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I'm reading how ChatGPT programs can be deliberately biased. Leads me to conclude the main result of the mainstreaming of AI will be greater distrust and social divide.

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Use AI in the context of personal financial planning for various interrelated concerns such as education, insurance, investment, retirement, state-specific considerations, tax, etc. Use a rules-based engine to adapt to customer-specific needs to: Narrow down a set of options; act as a check on potential recommendations against legal conflicts; or to do scenario analysis via risk a broadly evolved "Monte Carlo" approach for issues management.

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5 ChatGPT markets with a product too cheap to meter. No, thankyou.

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Mentor/ Teacher of English as a Second Language. Personalized instruction with “simulated Native English “ speakers. Using the European 9 levels: A 1, 2,3; B 1,2,3; C 1,2,3. BBC and British Council and US State Dept resources. Based on reading and talking about the stuff the student likes to talk about.

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