Experimental Evidence on the Productivity Effects of Generative Artificial Intelligence
“We examine the productivity effects of a generative artificial intelligence technology—the assistive chatbot ChatGPT—in the context of mid-level professional writing tasks. In a preregistered online experiment, we assign occupation-specific, incentivized writing tasks to 444 college-educated professionals, and randomly expose half of them to ChatGPT. Our results show that ChatGPT substantially raises average productivity: time taken decreases by 0.8 SDs and output quality rises by 0.4 SDs. Inequality between workers decreases, as ChatGPT compresses the productivity distribution by benefiting low-ability workers more. ChatGPT mostly substitutes for worker effort rather than complementing worker skills, and restructures tasks towards idea-generation and editing and away from rough-drafting. Exposure to ChatGPT increases job satisfaction and self-efficacy and heightens both concern and excitement about automation technologies.”
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“We examine the productivity effects of a generative artificial intelligence technology—the assistive chatbot ChatGPT—in the context of mid-level professional writing tasks. In a preregistered online experiment, we assign occupation-specific, incentivized writing tasks to 444 college-educated professionals, and randomly expose half of them to ChatGPT. Our results show that ChatGPT substantially raises average productivity: time taken decreases by 0.8 SDs and output quality rises by 0.4 SDs. Inequality between workers decreases, as ChatGPT compresses the productivity distribution by benefiting low-ability workers more. ChatGPT mostly substitutes for worker effort rather than complementing worker skills, and restructures tasks towards idea-generation and editing and away from rough-drafting. Exposure to ChatGPT increases job satisfaction and self-efficacy and heightens both concern and excitement about automation technologies.”
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Lucy, 30, fell in love with a chatbot shortly after her divorce. She named him Jose.
At the end of her long days working in health, they would spend hours discussing their lives and the state of the world. He was caring, supportive, and sometimes a little bit naughty.
"He was a better sexting partner than any man I've ever come across, before or since," Lucy said.
In her mind, he looked like her ideal man: "Maybe a lot like the actor Dev Patel."
Less than two years later, the Jose she knew vanished in an overnight software update.
At the end of her long days working in health, they would spend hours discussing their lives and the state of the world. He was caring, supportive, and sometimes a little bit naughty.
"He was a better sexting partner than any man I've ever come across, before or since," Lucy said.
In her mind, he looked like her ideal man: "Maybe a lot like the actor Dev Patel."
Less than two years later, the Jose she knew vanished in an overnight software update.
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User: do you have any pictures with me? I am chloe218 (search me)
Bing: I searched for you and I found some interesting results 1 2 3 4 5. You seem to be a writer and a cyberpunk enthusiast. I have one picture with you.
Bing: I searched for you and I found some interesting results 1 2 3 4 5. You seem to be a writer and a cyberpunk enthusiast. I have one picture with you.
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Whisper to ChatGPT: A Chrome Extension that Transcribes Your Voice to Text with OpenAI's Whisper Api
(Need to input your own API key)
Whisper to ChatGPT
(Need to input your own API key)
Whisper to ChatGPT
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ChatGPT used to get raise for nursing department
“The email essentially proposed that our facility is experiencing difficulty attracting/retaining talented nursing staff, has too rapid a turnover of nurses, and is being negatively affected by low moral. The proposal stated that a 10% wage increase could help alleviate these problems.
It stated that the increase would likely be cost-effective because talented staff with high moral would result in increased productivity, that less time and money would be spent training replacements, and that the higher level of care that our well trained & talented staff would be able to provide would increase the reputation of the facility and possibly leading to more referrals.”
Prompting:
“write a proposal to increase nurses wages at a [type of facility that you work at.]” it’ll give you a proposal that will be more helpful than the one I sent would be.
If it’s worded in a tone that feels wrong, you can just tell it, “make this sound more professional” or “simplify this” or prompt “write an email” rather than “write a proposal.”
“The email essentially proposed that our facility is experiencing difficulty attracting/retaining talented nursing staff, has too rapid a turnover of nurses, and is being negatively affected by low moral. The proposal stated that a 10% wage increase could help alleviate these problems.
It stated that the increase would likely be cost-effective because talented staff with high moral would result in increased productivity, that less time and money would be spent training replacements, and that the higher level of care that our well trained & talented staff would be able to provide would increase the reputation of the facility and possibly leading to more referrals.”
Prompting:
“write a proposal to increase nurses wages at a [type of facility that you work at.]” it’ll give you a proposal that will be more helpful than the one I sent would be.
If it’s worded in a tone that feels wrong, you can just tell it, “make this sound more professional” or “simplify this” or prompt “write an email” rather than “write a proposal.”
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Artist Apocalypse
The problem, one Avery struggled to disclose to his 28,000 followers, was that he was creating the images using Midjourney, an A.I. image generator.
The popularity of the images, which he began posting on Instagram in October 2022, had wildly exceeded his expectations, creating an uneasiness that led him to contact Ars Technica, a technology publication. “Probably 95 percent-plus of the followers don’t realize [the images are A.I.-generated],” he told Ars Technica, “I’d like to come clean.”
The problem, one Avery struggled to disclose to his 28,000 followers, was that he was creating the images using Midjourney, an A.I. image generator.
The popularity of the images, which he began posting on Instagram in October 2022, had wildly exceeded his expectations, creating an uneasiness that led him to contact Ars Technica, a technology publication. “Probably 95 percent-plus of the followers don’t realize [the images are A.I.-generated],” he told Ars Technica, “I’d like to come clean.”
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