AI adoption at work is skyrocketing (it doubled in 6 months with 75% using it at work), and power users are seeing significant benefits: they manage workloads better, increase creativity, and better optimize their workday.
However, there’s a small caveat to those stats.
This visual (from Microsoft’s & LinkedIn’s 2024 work trend index report) shows that workers are using AI tools not provided by their organization
This is a huge miss by organizations that are still taking their time to adopt gen AI technologies (not to mention the potential privacy & securing risks involved).
Click here to read the full report and some of the important takeaways.
Copyright Issues with Gen AI
One of the copyright issues that constantly arises with Gen AI is the idea of “fair use,” where you need to ask for permission (or pay someone) to use their data before you can train or monetize models.
This short podcast snippet from a while ago gives a quick overview of why this is an issue (and why some organizations were sued).
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The Power of Multimodal AI
Ethan Mollick recently shared an image of him giving a talk, in which he gave ChatGPT images from his family trip.
The best feature is that GPT-4V, a multimodal AI model, recognized that the boy in the second picture was the same as the one in the first picture.
This can have great applications in business. For example, an LLM could potentially remember screenshots during helpdesk troubleshooting with a customer.
One Prompt You Can Use at Work Today
Here’s a practical ChatGPT Prompt you can use at work:
Create a [report type] for an [purpose] – include section headings and any tables I might need to fill out.
For example,
Create a standard budget report for an internal company initiative called “Initiative X” – include section headings and any tables I might need to fill out.
If you would like to see more of those prompts, check out my free book called: ChatGPT for Better Business Communication.
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