College DS is interning full time, and decided to grind and take a 5 week, asynchronous summer course to knock out a core liberal arts requirement. Much cheaper at a state school than his university.

Professor is live, weekly. She posted a straightforward syllabus 15 chapters/quizzes, and a final paper using ChatGPT. To get their feet wet, she posed an intricate question and told them to use ChatGPT. He said it will be graded. It’s a psych course (he’s not a psych major) just took it since it was approved by his university. The students can chat amongst themselves. They invited prof to group. He said it’s hilarious since the group is asking anxiety ridden questions. They think she’s conducting a psych experiment on them. He’s excited to be a guinea pig.

Anonymous wrote:Retiring in a few years, but accounting is toast. If AI doesn't get you, millions of Indians willing to work for $3/hour will.

Can you expand on how accounting is toast? I get the $3 an hour displacement, but how is AI affecting the accounting field? All aspects? Certain aspects?

I can see it replacing routine tasks, but will it replace the human analysis, strategic advice, and problem-solving?

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Anonymous wrote:I just reviewed a bunch of cover letters for my
Nonprofit’s search for an admin level role and 100% at least two of them were written by chatgpt. I think they even used the same paragraph to describe their competencies (obviously they fed it our JD).

Serious question: what information do you glean from a cover letter that you can’t get from a resume?

I hire for specialized SME jobs, and a cover letter lets me learn whether the candidate can write. A resume is bullet points and you can easily get your resume drafted for you by a service (which is fine, by the way, I have no problem with folks doing that). But I want to know if a candidate can synthesize new-to-them information (our job description) and draft a few paragraphs that demonstrate why they want *this* job.

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone concerned about ChatGPT should try using it themselves in their job. As the ChatGPT-written responses in this thread demonstrate, it’s nowhere close to outperforming written communication by humans.

Unless your job involves writing low-level content for a travel blog (“Ten restaurants you MUST try in Paris. Number six will blow your mind!”), you probably have nothing to worry about.

This reminds me of all the predictions about self-driving cars from ten years ago.

It could affect the legal sector. Imagine CEOs meeting up, being fed grapes and fanned by attendants, while their AIs hash out contracts or deals. Then they can have their AI announce layoffs since studies show people handle robotic bad news better.

There’s a Chinese company with a robot CEO who gets paid nothing. The C suite is also in danger of automation. The company’s board and shareholders, yes, can be fed grapes and fanned.

Anonymous wrote:Anyone concerned about ChatGPT should try using it themselves in their job. As the ChatGPT-written responses in this thread demonstrate, it’s nowhere close to outperforming written communication by humans.

Unless your job involves writing low-level content for a travel blog (“Ten restaurants you MUST try in Paris. Number six will blow your mind!”), you probably have nothing to worry about.

This reminds me of all the predictions about self-driving cars from ten years ago.

I've been using the self-driving cars comparison with my husband, who is telling our son in college that he's a fool to be majoring in accounting. Self-driving vehicles were supposed to have replaced human truck drivers by now, yet here we are with truck drivers greatly in need and can make a lot of money. And self-driving personal cars continue to run stop signs...

I haven't used ChatGPT but the ones in this thread look like the b.s. I came up with in college essays to fill space. A lot of wordy nothing. I'm probably hopelessly naive on the topic, and I have certainly seen how technology has changed the landscape over my career (I started working before my white collar profession had a single personal computer), but I don't see it putting scores of people out of business.

Anonymous wrote:I just reviewed a bunch of cover letters for my
Nonprofit’s search for an admin level role and 100% at least two of them were written by chatgpt. I think they even used the same paragraph to describe their competencies (obviously they fed it our JD).

Cover letters are perfect for AI since they serve no purpose. People are interested in the job because of money.

If you think ChatGPT’s current capabilities are the only threat to jobs posed by AI, you are a fool.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just reviewed a bunch of cover letters for my
Nonprofit’s search for an admin level role and 100% at least two of them were written by chatgpt. I think they even used the same paragraph to describe their competencies (obviously they fed it our JD).

Serious question: what information do you glean from a cover letter that you can’t get from a resume?

Cover letters are great for explaining interest if the job is in a new city or a new field. In many cases I find them useless though.

Anonymous wrote:I just reviewed a bunch of cover letters for my
Nonprofit’s search for an admin level role and 100% at least two of them were written by chatgpt. I think they even used the same paragraph to describe their competencies (obviously they fed it our JD).

Serious question: what information do you glean from a cover letter that you can’t get from a resume?

I just reviewed a bunch of cover letters for my
Nonprofit’s search for an admin level role and 100% at least two of them were written by chatgpt. I think they even used the same paragraph to describe their competencies (obviously they fed it our JD).