This weekend I caught up with some old friends. One of them works as a Registered Nurse (RN) and the other has been working in marketing for a small local clothing company for over a decade.
The RN was describing a new AI service that her practice is using. It is a plugin to their tele-medicine software that listens to an ongoing call and uses speech-to-text plus whatever AI magic sauce the product has to fill out a "call sheet". I don't know precisely what a call sheet is, but the RN said it was the worst part of her job and she was very happy that it would automate the paper-work that takes up a large part of her day.
The marketing manager laughed and said she used GPT multiple times a day. As in, she doesn't even send emails now without running the text through GPT. She then relayed an anecdote about how she had taken a picture of her fridge and asked GPT to identify the food available in there and to make a weekly meal plan for her family.
These anecdotes were just brought up spontaneously. That is, the RN was just excited and musing about a new huge time-saver that was making her work-life better. And the marketing manager, who has already completely integrated GPT into her work, was showing how she was now integrating GPT into her family life.
Even though I understand the "facts based reasoning" that is advocated in this video - my personal experience is seeing excitement not at hype, but excitement by non-tech people in the current uses of the technology. The trend I see in the people I am talking to is that AI, even the weak LLM version we are seeing now, is being integrated into work-life and personal-life at an astonishing pace.
The RN was describing a new AI service that her practice is using. It is a plugin to their tele-medicine software that listens to an ongoing call and uses speech-to-text plus whatever AI magic sauce the product has to fill out a "call sheet". I don't know precisely what a call sheet is, but the RN said it was the worst part of her job and she was very happy that it would automate the paper-work that takes up a large part of her day.
The marketing manager laughed and said she used GPT multiple times a day. As in, she doesn't even send emails now without running the text through GPT. She then relayed an anecdote about how she had taken a picture of her fridge and asked GPT to identify the food available in there and to make a weekly meal plan for her family.
These anecdotes were just brought up spontaneously. That is, the RN was just excited and musing about a new huge time-saver that was making her work-life better. And the marketing manager, who has already completely integrated GPT into her work, was showing how she was now integrating GPT into her family life.
Even though I understand the "facts based reasoning" that is advocated in this video - my personal experience is seeing excitement not at hype, but excitement by non-tech people in the current uses of the technology. The trend I see in the people I am talking to is that AI, even the weak LLM version we are seeing now, is being integrated into work-life and personal-life at an astonishing pace.