🖨️ ChatGPT: How it will create jobs
🏴 🥃 Burns night celebrations
🇨🇭 Varley in Davos
📻 Times Radio with Matt Chorley
🐏 #SaveDerbyCounty - One year on …
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🖨️ ChatGPT: How it will create jobs
There was a lot of immediate commentary on ChatGPT, I have taken a bit of time to reflect on it, and try and think a bit strategically about the impact. No doubt that when ChatGPT was released by OpenAI just before Christmas, it was like a thunderclap across the internet. Make no mistake: the arrival of a functional, smart artificial intelligence ‘chatbot’ is a seismic development in the history of technology.
Some immediately predicted the elimination of tens of thousands of writing jobs, from journalism to PR. I don’t agree – instead, I think it will enhance them and allow them to get more creative. There were similar fears when we replaced letters with emails in the 1990s – and, as we all know, that particular technology has created more work rather than less!
What I have found ChatGPT to be most useful for so far has been idea generation and structuring, rather than actually writing. I think most people have ideas for books, podcasts and plays, but working with ChatGPT has been interesting for fleshing those ideas out
(Oh, and writing a few different bedtime stories for my girls on what we have done that day, what we are going to do tomorrow, the really mind bending bit is just think when that can be matched with video automation - not that long off, I can assure you!)
Although demand has been so busy for the last week that I have not been able to log on … back to wheels on the bus it has been :)
When it comes to writing, at the moment, ChatGPT most resembles a calculator in my mind. Like with calculators, it will still be a skill to know how to use them best and extract the most value out of them.
In Downing Street, I was famed for citing research from from the Edelman trust barometer which said that 51 per cent of Brits felt that innovation was going too fast. My point was as a government you cannot and should not want to be in a position where you are attempting to stop innovation from happening, but you should be relentlessly working out how everyone can benefit from it.That will be our biggest challenge when it comes to ChatGPT, as with all new technology: how do we skill people up in it and make them use the best of it? As for writers, a country whose history includes William Shakespeare and Charles Dickens should not fear this next chapter in the history of the written word.
🏴 🥃 Burns night celebrations
To coincide with Burns night this week, we did a special episode of Jimmy’s Jobs in partnership with the Scotch Whisky Association.
Scotch really is a massive industry, and on every PM trade trip I organised, they were on it, whether it be China, Japan, Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya, Canada or USA. It really is a great British success story, and they are creating a lot of jobs to match the modern economy.
It was our biggest piece of work to date, involving numerous cameras, microphones, trains, planes and automobiles. It is an incredible piece of work and I am very proud of the team who have worked tirelessly to pull it together.
This is just the start of a number of exciting partnerships we have this year, you can check out more how they work here.
A few YouTube shorts below:
And a Twitter thread on a few key stats about the history and industry of Scotch
🇨🇭 Varley in Davos
It was Davos last week, and one of the annual criticisms is of business leaders flying to the Swiss ski resort to then discuss the importance of net zero, so fair play to Steve Varley, the global vice chair of sustainability at EY, who at least took the last leg of the journey by train and posted stunning pictures on social, too. Varley is also a keen cyclist. Perhaps a group trip for the travelling great and good next year?
📻 Times Radio with Matt Chorley
Regarding Davos, I had a good chat with Matt Chorley, Times Radio late morning host, which as our working patterns change is becoming the prime radio slot overtaking the traditional breakfast slot.
I was joined by Katy Balls, the new Political Editor of the Spectator too.
🐏 #SaveDerbyCounty - One year on …
I quite regularly go and chat to big global firms about economic megatrends, what will jobs be in the future, how will workplaces be different, political campaigning, what Rishi Sunak means for business etc. etc.
I am always slightly surprised that the most common question I get at each one of these, can you talk us a bit through the campaign to Save Derby County?
My speaking agent, Katy will look down at her feet and think, off he goes for 10 mins.
And a year on from that remarkable march of 15,000 people from the City Centre to Pride Park, Derby County are currently in dreamland having been unbeaten in 18 games, dangerously close to the record that was set by Jim Smith’s Rams in 1996 of 20 games unbeaten.
As you can see there was a remarkable game on Tuesday night, backed by an incredible 4,000 Rams fans…
Could they bounce straight back up after almost going extinct a year ago?
I crunched the data:
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