Large L(everage) Models
I've been using ChatGPT since it appeared in the wild on November 30, 2022.
At the time, I was paying tons of money to an SEO guy for our website SEO. Fired him immediately, and started using ChatGPT to create and write content effectively.
Each and every single blog written during that time period brings 1000~ visitors every month to the website.
The point here being that these Large Language Models provide extreme leverage in the hands of one single individual. That's the general impact of technology. When Google Translate came out, there was a panic amongst translators that their jobs are finished. Even today, especially in my country, I see tons of people in these translation-related jobs, especially around courts. However, for basic translation, these people are no more required.
If that's the case, why is everyone crying about impending job losses due to impending AI innovation?
The reason here seems to me as scale of things. Google Translate made one specific niche strata of the working class feel threated. However, with ChatGPT, AI-powered search engines, agents, and so on, threaten every single knowledge worker to a great extent.
Or so they feel.
The impending doom of job losses is a worry for those who are wary of technological adaptation. I am not a programmer, but I try to understand the basics of every technology that I use in my everyday lives or my agency (content creation).
I use every single tool at my disposal:
- ChatGPT Plus for regular tasks.
- Perplexity for in-depth research.
- Exa for regular, but AI powered segregated search (Recommended)
- Gamma AI for presentations and beautiful document designs
This helps me leverage AI to free up time and focus on more important, creative tasks.
Choice is ours. Either we accept and leverage new tools and accelerate learning and focus on creativity, or we put up a shield of deflection that will lead us to obsolescence.