ChatGPT can now See, Hear, and Speak – How to Stay Ahead in the Age of AI? // Future Work #55
Daan van Rossum
Lead with AI | LinkedIn Top Voice | NYT, HBR, Economist, CNBC, Insider, FastCo featured Founder and CEO of FlexOS – A Happier Future of Work
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The new ChatGPT can see, hear, and speak.?
Yes, AI is getting smarter – and we need to catch up to stay ahead.?
The news: last week, OpenAI rolled out a huge update, and ChatGPT can now see, hear, and speak. Technically called “multimodal,” it’s becoming the virtual assistant we dreamed it could be.?
What can you do?
The options for using ChatGPT through voice and visuals are endless:
It all gets us closer to using it as a real value-adding assistant. (We also seem to be getting closer to Her!)
This WSJ video featuring Joanna Stern shows it nicely:
If you thought voice was impressive – the visual side of things is amazing, too.?
Take a photo of what you want input on and share it to ChatGPT.?
Then, get an answer based on all the knowledge of the world’s leading LLM.
ChatGPT 4 can take complex visuals and answer questions about them.
I’m sure there’s a workplace equivalent of interpreting parking signs:
Or this one, where ChatGPT analyzes an electronic circuit diagram:
And if those examples are not crazy enough, OpenAI partnered with iPhone designer Jony Ive to create a personal device for AI.?
This could be a phone or a wearable like glasses or a ring, reducing the barrier to interacting with the AI in voice and visuals further.????
How can managers take advantage and stay ahead?
I get it; manager life is hard and overwhelming.
As Emily Field , Bryan Hancock , and the team from McKinsey wrote in?Activating Middle Managers through Capability Building:?
"Through no fault of their own, middle managers are unable to achieve their full potential. They are pulled in many directions and asked to do too much without having the skills to succeed. As a result, middle managers can be the most burned-out employees in an organization.”? ?
But especially with these latest developments, being up to speed with AI is a must.
Jared Spataro , Microsoft’s Corporate VP of Modern Work & Business Applications, said it well in?an interview with Charter 's Kevin Delaney :
“The manager of the next even two or three years is going to look very different.”
He added that typical manager jobs like, “the flow of information up and down, that type of work can be done even more effectively by machines. Some of the synthesis work that happens, summarizing what's happening, reasoning across, and looking at options can be done.”?
Eventually, as Running Remote and?Time Doctor?founder Liam Martin and I discussed for an upcoming?Future Work podcast episode, AI may become the manager – efficiently distributing and checking tasks.?
As?I wrote in June, this would free up managers to become coaches and mentors.
But it also means that we must get past the?barriers of AI adoption?and stop doing work that AI can do.
Here’s how you can do this in three simple steps:
1. Lower the barrier of experimentation
We need to get our hands on AI and experiment and experience firsthand how we can take advantage.?
One CEO did this by forcing every employee to?make ChatGPT their homepage. Seeing this frequently will spur you to use it more and gain more of its benefits.
Asana’s Rebecca Hinds?said?she “encourages employees to?try to use AI for all of their job tasks for an entire week?to understand better the technology’s strengths and weaknesses and how it can help them do their jobs.”
2. Analyze your productivity?
Data collection and analysis are key for any improvement we want.?
Continuously collect personal productivity data from tools like Time Doctor, Active Track, Clockwise, and Microsoft Teams and where you spend your time.?
Every week, I spend a few minutes looking at key stats like my ActivTrack productivity data to understand where I’m spending, and where I'm wasting my time.??
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3. Develop GPT Goals?
As you get a grasp on where you’re not using your time effectively and get your head around how GPT and other AI tools work, develop specific SMART goals.?
These will help you move from intent to action, for example:
One-Month Goals:
Three-Month Goals:
Six-Month Goals:
(Yes, AI helped in generating this list.)
The Bottom Line
As two-thirds of jobs will be impacted by AI in the next few years, including?many jobs that will be replaced, there never was a better time to start.
Try, learn, and try more – and leap to an AI-driven future full of?meaningful productivity.
– Daan
From the FlexOS Team:
8 Timesheet Templates for Employee and Client Work Hours (Free & Printable)
?You trust your people to track their own hours or focus on outputs.
After all, great leaders do their best to empower those they work with rather than trying to micromanage. Especially if you have people working remotely.?
However, for a wide range of reasons – company procedures, legal purposes, payment control – stricter, more detailed hour tracking may be required. That’s where timesheets can be a real lifesaver.
Our team found the eight most commonly used timesheets and turned them into free templates for you to use.
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Until next week!
We want to build the ultimate resource for hybrid and remote managers.?
If you have topics, ideas, or requests – I'm all ears!
– Daan