Can ChatGPT-4 Successfully Mimic My Writing Style? 🤔

🧪 In a experiment, I wanted to test if ChatGPT-4 could mimic my writing style so effectively that my friends was unable to distinguish between my writing and ChatGPT's.

🔎 The Experiment
I began “training” ChatGPT to adopt my writing style by:
a. Providing it with some of my LinkedIn posts and having it analyze my style, and use as a basis for a prompt.
b. Tweaking the ChatGPT prompt on a sample text until the results matched my satisfaction.

I then used the prompt from above to have ChatGPT summarize an article in my writing style and shared the summary with a group of friends, asking them to estimate the probability (%) that the article summary was written by either me or ChatGPT.

📊 Results & Discussion - A Close Call
Out of the five who participated, three correctly identified that ChatGPT wrote the text. However, the average probability for me writing the text was 58%. Considering the motivations behind their responses, it seems to have been quite difficult to decide. If my friends have a 50% chance of picking up the correct author, what about a general audience? Probably much lower percentage...

🌐 Outlook - What does it mean? Well potentially a lot, here are three scenarios…

📌 Boosting my LinkedIn presence: I could quite easily increase my presence at LinkedIN and push myself as knowledgable within a chosen topic, say space exploration. The process can even be self-playing by setting up a script to automatically select trendig articles within space exploration and have ChatGPT writing summaries and posting them. Then I can of-course add a few personal references if needed.

How much material is curated automatically or semi-automatically today?

📌 Streamlining professional documentation: ChatGPT could draft all my project documents, saving me lot’s of time and potentially resulting in more accurate outcome. The “only” thing remaining is to bring GPT within the company walls - and we know that Microsoft, Google etc. are working on that now.

📌 Enhancing email and presentation drafting: If ChatGPT had access to all my business data, which it will soon, I don’t see any issues with having much of my e-mails, presentations, meeting transcripts and such drafted by ChatGPT. It will do a much better job than I do since it can cover more sources than I can keep in my head, and can still give the feeling that I wrote it.
What will I loose by relying on this process? How will it change my workflows?

What are your thoughts? What impact do you foresee?

🙂I wrote this text myself using my ChatGPT-assistant to review, give constructive feedback and outline the prompt for the DALL-E generated illustration.

📣 Hey Leaders of the Future, Tell Stories

📚 The 2023 Trend Report from Future Today Institute was recently released. It offers valuable insights into future tech trends and their impact across a number of industries. Definitely a recommended read. Link below.

🚀 Unsurprisingly, the report screams AI now now now across all industries. In fact, the field of applied AI evolves so rapidly that yearly (any?) reports struggle to keep up. The trend report predicts niche solutions for the Large Language Models (such as GPT-4), and with the recent OpenAI release of ChatGPT plugins, this is already starting to happen

🎯 Let’s narrow down a lot and view the report from one (project) leadership lens.

📖 The greatest leaders have always been skilled storytellers. Organizations with a strong and powerful story have survived the test of time. In the brilliant book about major future trends, Momentum by Kjell A Nordström and Per Schlingmann (link below), they argue that the future leader is a storyteller. The ability to create pedagogical and interesting stories will be the glue keeping the team together and working with high engagement towards the set goal.

🎬With the storytelling backdrop, leaders should pay close attention to the entertainment industry!? Yes

Entertainment ❤️ Storytelling ❤️ Leadership

Who is better at storytelling and creating engagement than the entertainment business?

🤔 I'm far from a natural-born storyteller, but I have leadership ambitions. Is this combination doomed to result in failure? No, you guessed it, the answer spells AI, and the predictions in the trend report are a sweet read!

"AI takes center stage in the creation process."

As AI improves, we can use it to supercharge our storytelling abilities. It might not turn us to becoming award-winning authors, but it's good enough to create business-related stories that spark engagement.

💡 What do you think? Are you a storyteller? Have you worked with any leaders that have been great at storytelling? If yes, what was your experience?

ChatGPT is eating up my admin tasks, one piece at a time

😩 Another post about AI? Yes, we in the start of a epic shift. Bill Gates has been on top of tech since the dawn of personal computing. In his recently released letter on AI, saying during his lifetime he has seen two demonstrations of technology that were revolutionary; the first being the graphical user interface, which I use quite a lot…, and the second… yes the natural language AI development that we are experiencing with ChatGPT. Let that sink in for a while, and be prepared to read a lot more about it 🥳

⌛ Back to the topic of saving time. Today ChatGPT saved me from 10 minutes boring admin work. I know this is not the 10x productivity gain or saving 4 hours per day, but a very concrete example of the value of just using and playing with the tool.

📧 I had handful of e-mail containing text mixed with data and I wanted to extract some data to create an Excel table. The “old” way of doing it would be to set up a table in Excel, read through the e-mails to extract data, enter the data into the table, enter the necessary formulas to calculate the metrics.
Not complicated, but takes 10-15 minutes.

🌟 Using ChatGPT, I entered a prompt simply outlying how the table should look like with headers, what data that I wanted to have in each of the column and that it should end with a few rows with summary metrics.
3 rows of text and everything in plain Swedish, took 2-3 minutes at the maximum.

🎉 The result was exactly what I wanted to have. ChatGPT extracted the data and put it in a table formated just how I envisioned it.

💡 That is amazing! Of course at such a small scale its borderline if to do it manually or with the help of ChatGPT, but scaling it up then the time savings become massive. And since it was about extracting data from natural language, writing a program to do it (that doesn’t use GPT-4) is not a simple task, at least not for me.

🧠 A couple of things it made me think about

📌 There are huge benefits of implementing these tools in your company and start tinkering now now now.

📌 This is a very natural way of interfacing with a computer. Compare writing “=average(A1:A5)” or “calculate the average of first column, row 1 through 5”. This forces us to practice a clear and concise way of expressing ourselves using natural language, which is good also when communicating with your human colleagues.

📌 As with all interactions, trust is a key ingredient to save time, if you don’t have it you need to build control structures which is very time consuming and the gains are lost. This holds true for AI-assistants as well. Yes, I checked the data and calculations manually. Trust is not there yet.

🌐 The graphical user interface is in almost every device I use today, and the same will be true for AI.

❓ What tasks have you automated with AI, and how has it impacted your productivity?

🚀 What an exciting time to be alive

Wow what a release-fest we have experienced this week!

 📌 ChatGPT-4, amazing language capabilities and apparently it has eyes too! Looking forward to exploring it.

📌 Microsoft 365 Copilot, it will supercharge the tools that I use every day. How much of my project lead work will it change?

📌 A new trend report from Future Today Institute, to be honest I haven’t read it through yet - but hopefully it will give some insight in how the new AI-tools will impact us.

🤔 All this rapid progress made me think about the history…

In 2021, receiving feedback on a post
“your writing is subjective, not consistent and the spelling leaves room for improvement”, made me react like - damn I must practice harder 🤬😡

In 2023, receiving feedback on a post
“your writing is subjective, not consistent and the spelling leaves room for improvement”, will make me react like - wohoo they believe it’s a human that wrote it 😍🥳😀

Exciting times 🚀

ChatGPT 4 got an almost a perfect score on “högskoleprovet” (Swedish University Entrance exam) 🥳

In early January of this year I put ChatGPT (Dec 15 version) through the Swedish University Entrance exam (in Swedish), it got a normalized score of 1.4* out of 2.0, a good result but failing a bit on quantitive reasoning and reading comprehension of long texts.

Now, I challenged ChatGPT 4 with the same test and it got a score of 1.9* out of 2.0. Wow 🧠 Only 2.5% of the human participants get such a high score and it will open the doors to almost any University education in Sweden.
Similar results are seen for other benchmark exams.

ChatGPT 4, still has a way to go with some mathematical reasoning questions, however,

I consider reading comprehension as a solved problem. We can go from searching to asking and discussing. This is huge!


There are a gazillion cases where this is game changing - one of the first that comes to my mind is e-mails 📬

Say that you have a long e-mail chain and you want to catch something. Today most of us use keyword search and combine data from different e-mails in our head to get an answer. With ChatGPT 4 you can ask the question that you are thinking about and get a summarized answer taking data from all e-mails into consideration. You can even ask follow-up questions and ask to write a reply. New ways of thinking.

This will only solve situations for which the AI-model have data to leverage. The personal touch based on your experiences must be written by yourself 🤩

As for all co-workers with strong CV, ChatGPT comes with a higher salary than the old version (you must use the plus version of ChatGPT to access version 4) 💰

I’m inspired to put it through the paces in the days to come, and understand how it can help me as a project leader🚀


*Excluding all questions that were graph based and could not be input to ChatGPT, this is the most optimistic interpretation.

Explore new frontiers with ChatGPT by your side!

 To be honest, I have spent too much time reading about GPT-3 until now…

⏰As a project leader, my limited time is spent on pushing projects towards deadlines. To stay on top of the current development, I listen to articles, books and podcasts. This is a predictable process; I cover X words in Y minutes. However, hands-on experience provides the deepest learning but it is unpredictable and progression is non-linear. Getting progress on a task might requires hours work. This uncertainty keeps me from trying, and thereby from deeper understanding.

“Build a ChatGPT like App for Your Business in 7 lines of Code”

Was the title a medium article that caught my attention (link in the comments), how hard can it be? My programming skills are very outdated, but copy-paste 7 lines of code seems simple enough.

ChatGPT show me the way!

👍My first thought was that I had to install the program language Python.

🧑‍🎓I asked ChatGPT to guide me through the process from zero to a “hello world” program. Wow, it was like having a personal tutor sitting besides me. It took about 30 minutes, including trouble shooting, to set up the environment and ending up with a terminal prompt saying “hello world”. Amazing.

Then I realized that nowadays you do everything in the browser using tools works out-of-the box, I used codelab from Google. Most likely ChatGPT would have told me if I just asked…

What about the 7 lines of Code?

🤖In less than 10 minutes “I created” a bot based on GPT3 that were able to answer questions in natural language, about a pdf-file that I feed the system with. The answers were far superior to, e.g. using the search function. The implications are game changing, but thats another post.

Take home message - Dare to try and explore

🙌If you are like me and want to try something, but don’t have the time to get stuck and thereby end up not exploring enough - you now have someone to guide you through the process, or at least an early version of it. Yesterday my tutor got even better 🚀

GPT-4 will enable you to “write a 200 page book in one day”, is that a good thing?

✨If it hasn't happened already, your feed will be flooded with news about the rumored GPT-4 release this week, it’s the new and shiny version replacing the current GPT-3.5 (ChatGPT).

***Photo by Robert Anasch on Unsplash***

The rumors are impressive to say the least; multimodal capabilities (text, images, video, sound), trillions of optimization parameters, and the ability to write a 200-page illustrated book in one day. Personally, I can barely manage to read 200 pages in a day 😅

This is great, but...

🤔 On the one hand, I struggle with the concept of ChatGPT doing creative writing for you. The technique for getting ChatGPT to do your work, prompting, involves providing ChatGPT a condensed version of your idea then having the tool unpacking and expanding it. A few lines of text yields a page.

In my view, the unpacking of your idea is a huge part of the creative process that reflects your imagination, and it's unique to you. An AI will never draw a parallell to something that you read in a book, or experienced, some time ago.

🙌 On the other hand, 200 pages is impressive.

🧠 I hope this means that GPT-4 is capable of keeping 200 pages in memory, so when it reaches page 183, it can make a reference to something that happened on page 4. Imagine the length and depth of “discussions” that this will enable. Currently, when exploring a subject with ChatGPT, the short memory becomes noticeable fairly early, as it starts to repeat itself. This will not be the case if having 200 page memory. Awesome.

👍 For us project managers, It will be even more useful in creating internal project documents. These involves a far less creative writing process than e.g., book-writing. For a project plan, it means you can feed the tool with key project parameters and it can produce a 20-30 page plan with relevant references.

🤞Another wish for GPT-4 is that it solves to the problem of hallucination, i.e. when it spits out long sentences that does not make sense in the given context. 200 pages are easily achieved if you're allowed to write total nonsense. I'd rather have it write a couple of pages really well.

🤩 It will be an exciting week, if the rumors are true count on a
massive explosion in video-content and 200 page books at Amazon.

What would be the killer feature that would make ChatGPT useful in your worklife?

AI will free up a lot of your time - what will you use it for?

Joann Vanek argued back in 1974 that even though we have new household devices such as dishwashers, the time spent on housework had not changed over the past half-century. The key question is what impact time-saving devices have?

🤖 In the ongoing AI discussions, it is often argued that AI tools will help us by taking over low-level admin tasks and freeing up time for more high-level work.

🙌 I think this sounds great!

😫 When stressed, I don't want to spend my time on low-level tasks such as reporting budget numbers that need to be filed just in time for finance. On the other hand, it can be quite relaxing to spend some time on easy, low-level tasks. When doing so, I get the feeling of doing important work (feeding my action bias), while half-resting my brain for more cognitively challenging tasks, such as a deep discussion with a team member.

🕰️ Cal Newport suggests that most people can sustain about 4 hours of deep focus work per day, although this can vary depending on the individual. It's less than a full work day for sure.

❓ Will you have the courage to accept a workday without low-level admin tasks and work only 4 hours? or will it be as in the case with housework (and other automation in knowledge work) that you continue working 8-10 hours per day with a mix of high-level and new types of low-level work?

Old question, but a new context, exciting to see how it will develop this time 🙂