OpenAI Code Interpreter for Us Non-Coders 😀

🧩 Another Piece of the Future-of-Work Puzzle is served.

OpenAI Code Interpreter from a non-coder perspective

As shown in numerous examples, we are shifting our interactions with computers from us doing the dirty work to having the computer doing it for us.

One simple example for the new paradigm of work - say that you want to switch to dark mode on your Windows computer, the instructions are:

1️⃣ Select Start > Settings

2️⃣ Select Personalization > Colors.

3️⃣ Under Choose your color, select Custom.

4️⃣ Under Choose your default Windows mode, select Dark.

You kindly follow the instructions and get it done 😅

With AI integrated into Windows, you simply type “turn on dark mode”, the AI will understand what you mean and execute the steps for you. You say, it does.

This way of interacting with our tech will be extrapolated to all areas.

OpenAI Code Interpreter is enabling this way of working, you tell it what to do and it does it. “Does it” might include writing and executing some code. As a user you don’t need to understand what is going on under the hood. However, ChatGPT kindly informs what it is doing as an attempt to create transparency and trust(?)

Code Interpreter can do a lot, let’s scratch the surface with a few examples.

📊 Say that you are a project manager and have an Excel file with your budget and actuals. At the end of the month, you get another excel file with costs. Now you can simply upload both files to ChatGPT and ask it to update the budget file, it kindly deducts the costs from the right posts. You say, it does.

As a second step, you could ask it to write a monthly status update report based on the new budget file and recent sprint log using a pre-defined reporting format. You say, it does.

📊 Another example, you can tell it to

📌 write a project time plan,

📌 break it down into sprints and

📌 suggest tasks for the first sprint per role. It can even help you with estimating time, no it will not be perfect - but from what I've seen in projects, we (humans) are quite bad at estimating times as well 😉

With Code Interpreter you now have the capability of creating your charts, analyze data and manipulate files.

📝 Polishing this a few steps more, it can take care of much you the post meeting work, such as updating task lists and drafting e-mails.

Gartner estimated that 80% of today´s (2019) project management tasks will be eliminated by 2030. 8 months after the release of ChatGPT this seems highly likely, or will we even get there faster?

💭 What parts of that work can an AI assistant help you with? Have you tried it?

🚀 In the very near future, we will hand over much of the doing to our AI-assistants, there is no doubt about it. Even if the AI development stopped today, it will be the case.

🔑 How do you prepare for this shift? Education? Strategic planning? Playing with the tech in small projects? What do you need to get started?

📣 Huge announcements by Microsoft, check it out!

Yesterday, Google had their big I/O day with exciting news. What a coincidence that Microsoft released exciting news a few hours before the Google event 😉 They have us a glimpse of Copilot and a fresh work trend report.



In summary, Microsoft:
✅ Expanded access to Microsoft 365 Copilot from 20 to 600 selected enterprises.
✅ Released its 2023 Work Trend Index report.
✅ Introduced new features for Copilot in Whiteboard, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote, and Viva Learning.
✅ Introduced the Semantic Index for Copilot.

💡 My first impressions
🗺️ With the Semantic Index for Copilot, search is improved by not only including results from the search phrase but also providing results that match your intent, in your specific domain (company).

The example used is searching for “March Sales Report”. It understands that “sales reports are produced by Kelly on the finance team and created in Excel.” and will provide related search results.

Time will tell if this is actually helpful or just provides a lot of information that isn't what you're looking for. Since this is likely to be powered by GPT-4 (or GPT-3.5), I’m optimistic that this will work well and decrease the time spent finding the right information - which I spend a lot of time on as a knowledge worker.

👩‍✈️ The new Copilot features in Whiteboard, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote clearly take advantage of the GPT-4/DALL-E capability of summarizing, categorizing, and generating pictures, great!

From what I see, all the functionality mentioned by Microsoft is available today in different applications. Now Microsoft is bringing everything together in a nice package directly in the Office tools you use. When Copilot is rolled out and approved by your company, you can use all new functionality while being IT-compliant.

A few examples that will be useful for for a project manager:

✅ Rewrite in PowerPoint, taking text-heavy slides and turning them into bullet points. This means that you can focus on writing a manuscript which will be automatically turned into bullet points with good flow and precision.
✅ Image generation in PowerPoint, with direct DALL-E access.
✅ In Outlook, Copilot will coach you with the tone. This can be helpful when you must write an important email but are exhausted or have a very tight deadline.

❓ I was not clear on how integrated the company data will be (except for semantic serach), e.g., could DALL-E generate new illustrations following your brand guidelines?

Regarding the user interface, it seems as if the Bing integration in Edge is an indication of how it will look in several Microsoft applications.

🤩 Exciting times, looking forward to reading the Work Trend Index report in depth.

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 🚀

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?