God, AI, and the Scalable Class
This week I felt like I had to stop and rethink. The latest advances in artificial intelligence forced me to question everything I think about the future of work. I've written extensively about some of the weirder possibilities for that future. But they seem less weird now. They seem like they might be very relevant within five years.
Yesterday, I shared with you a conversation I had with ChatGPT. If you haven't tried ChatGPT yet, please do. It's magical. It doesn't just answer questions but also "understands" complex instructions and explains their reasoning. As the conversation progresses, it remains "conscious" of its previous answers and my previous preferences and uses this knowledge to provide better and more engaging answers. And it's even better at coding. I can ask it how to build something, and it would provide the relevant code and tell me what to install and what other "ingredients" are needed to turn my idea into a functioning product.
And now, ChatGPT is getting integrated with other apps and services. This would enable it to use its understanding to do things in the real world — book flights on Expedia, look up information on Google Drive, email contracts to job applicants, and more.
