Humans in the Loop

I discovered GPT-3 precisely one year ago. My first post on the Open AI forum today is dated Feb 12th, 2022. 

I remember telling people it reminded me of what Facebook felt like when I first discovered it. Back when it was just students who had university emails. That feeling of technology that was going to change the world, it was exciting and brimming with possibility.

I couldn’t understand why no one was talking about it. I didn’t understand why every student I knew wasn’t using this. How had it not already transformed the business landscape? I went to the Open AI forum to find examples of people who had transformed their lives with this tech. I was disappointed. I thought I was late to the party but, it turns out, I was way too early.

A year later and ChatGPT has exploded on the scene. My Twitter feed has been a non-stop parade of interesting prompt screenshots and entertaining one-off use cases. The use case examples that come with GPT-3 and ChatGPT are fantastic.

But very few stories about people who have successfully augmented their work or lives with this technology. So I put together the best stories I could find for you. This blog is what I wish I had found on that forum a year ago.