ChatGTP: The IT consultant's end is near!!

Intriguing...Out of boredom and wantonness, I started a conversation with ChatGTP.

Somehow we humans always start with the most unimaginative?examples when confronted with new technology. I remember a story of a lawyer who made his first query to "Altavista" (Google of the nineties). He entered the Dutch translation of "law" to see to what level his profession had already entered cyberspace. A safe choice and a total professional deformation. The only problem: the Dutch translation of "law" is "wet". The returned results immediately fogged up his glasses.

My results with Chatgtp were less evocative than the lawyer's results. To be more precise, the results were scary. Like the lawyer, I played it safe and took a topic related to my current job.

So far, so good. The IA understood the context, used the correct abbreviation and gave a "wiki"-like answer using the correct semantics in an understandable linguistical level of dialogue. Not too childish and not too technical. But it needs more clarity. "(..) set of policies, procedures, and technologies" could be anything. I was not yet satisfied. I could give a similar answer by googling a bit. So I decided to put it back to the A.I. and let the A.I. determine what questions I should ask based on some guidance.

Well, this is spot on. This response is beyond the level of Wiki. The answer is concrete guidance. I would not expect this level of concreteness from any consultancy firm. To be more precise, I asked a major global consultancy firm, and they could not give any guidance. They got stuck in generalities.

Though my question guided the A.I., with A.I., the art of answers becomes the art of questions. Now, if I transpose this to the response of the A.I.: if I answered these six groups of questions, I should have a complete trust framework! The A.I. response is in line with my most important lesson in thirty years of experience as a consultant: questions are more important than answers.

I am impressed. So let's dig deeper and see if the A.I. can zoom in.

What?!? The scary part is that it looks like the I.A. understood the question! (Or the A.I. has a George Santos level of bluffing). The second sentence, "This can..accessing resources", was not a part of my question. So, it is not a semantical trick. Also, I'd like to point out that I did not make any connection to digital assets. If a consultant gave me this answer, I would accept it! For me, this is the end of consultancy! So, why not ask what the A.I. thinks about it:

Pff, lucky me, the nice machine still sees me as relevant!

Olivier V.

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