Reimagining Work with ChatGPT: More Love, Less Labor

I made a promise that I couldn’t keep. Last week I promised to do a deep dive into all the individual tools available in one of my favorite AI imagery tools: ControlNet. The issue is that the AI space moves so quickly it’s impossible for me to know what is the best use of your time until I start writing this on Sunday.

If you want a simple breakdown of how to get more control over AI images, I suggest you scroll through last week’s newsletter and look through the pictures provided.

In fact, if you want a specific breakdown of ControlNet’s features for your specific scenario, I suggest you literally copy and paste the entire article from last week, put it into chatGPT with the following prompt, and replace the brackets with what you want to use AI Imagery for.

You are an expert in using Controlnet to create AI-generated images. I am an individual interested in using ControlNet to improve my [storyboarding]. You will explain the individual models in controlnet in simple terms and offer insight as to how it can help me [storyboard]. After your breakdown, ask me if there are any parts that are unclear.

A Plea To Use ChatGPT

If you aren’t using chatGPT as much as you can, you should be. In 18 months, not using ChatGPT will be like throwing out your smartphone for a flip phone.

I’ve been listening to some podcasts, and I’m starting to think that chatGPT is going to disrupt business and life as we know it so much, it may just break capitalism. Yes, seriously.

If 50% of our daily life can be automated, where does that leave regular employees? And when many large corporations with gigantic offices do layoffs because they’re more efficient, where does that leave large-scale commercial real estate?

And I’m not writing this to fear-bait you. That’s the last thing I want to do. The first thing I want to do is give you information and tools so you can do more of what you love.

And with more efficiency in the world, I think people will get to do more of what they love.

But I want to tell you that it’s not going to be a smooth transition and there will be moments of uncertainty. The only thing that’s certain is that you can control how you spend your time. And I implore you to get comfy and familiar with your new personal assistant chatGPT, or you may be replaced by someone who knows how to use it.

The Future

We will look back on using a mouse and keyboard similar to how we view using punch cards for computers to execute individual commands; slow and unpractical.

Let’s have some fun and talk about what your workflow could look like in 18 months.

Say you’re a social media marketer. In the near future, you’ll say out loud, “Give me a list of business owners with between 3-10 employees in the immediate area, then write an email to each business owner assessing their current marketing plan, then identify areas of improvement specific to my marketing strengths.”

ChatGPT will soon be able to use images and video to identify things. So, you’ll be able to hold up a box of cereal and ask if any hidden health risks are associated with all the flavors you can’t pronounce. You can then ask it to offer better alternatives.

The Hardest Working Assistant You’ve Ever Had

Let’s take it a step further.

AgentGPT lets you tell AI an overall goal and it then runs in the background 24/7 and decides what steps it needs to take until that goal is achieved. It’s truly like having an assistant that can work unlimited overtime for free. Unfortunately, right now it’s not super smart. But it will be incredibly smart sooner rather than later.

You could tell AgentGPT something like, “I want to cancel subscriptions I don’t use.”

Then AgentGPT will automatically look through the subscriptions you pay for and compare your phone screen time to see where certain subscriptions aren’t being utilized. As a bonus, it could ask if you think the subscriptions you use are worth the price you pay and go through customer service for you to haggle and get a discount.

You could also tell AgentGPT to scrape your email inbox and gather all the necessary documents to pay your taxes. From there, it could also give you recommendations on how to structure your business and personal life to get a bigger refund.

You could also have AgentGPT improve your work-life balance by saying, “Based on the last 30 days of app usage, screentime, work notes, email inbox, and calendar, find automation in my day and gather any information I would need to execute the most important thing in my day first thing at 9 am.”

It’s important to note that the machine is not a mind reader and you’d need to specify the most important thing each day. This would require you to journal and prioritize the night before, which is a good activity for you to be doing anyway.

Conclusion

I hope you’re able to see where my head’s at with all this automation stuff. Basically, how we interact with computers is going to change drastically.

The largest companies in the world are trying to figure out where this tech is going to take society and how it affects the speed and efficiency of their business.

We don’t have to be scared by it.

I encourage you to put some time in your calendar, maybe 30 minutes per week just to start, and mess around with chatGPT. Understand its strengths and weaknesses. Stay optimistic and approach it with a child-like wonder of what this machine can do for you in your daily life.