[tyrelb]

I use ChatGPT religiously. It's not fluff - it's akin to a wheel, hammer, and other basic tool to effectively multiply my time/energy.

1) Use it to help me on a lawsuit - i.e. "in the X Act and X Regulation, does Province law require that Y... ? " and it gives me summary and gives me short-hand answer - confirms my understanding. I copied/pasted defendants Statement of Defence and Counterclaim - come up with arguments to counter their case.

2) Helps me re-write job descriptions for my team - simplifying, standardizing the format and giving me new ideas.

3) Helped me model out the IRR of a whole life insurance contract for a buddy who is an insurance broker... to help her explain technical concepts in simple terms.

4) Helped re-write and improve on sections on various legal contracts/agreements

5) Helped write a first-draft on numerous speeches - gives me new ideas, clarify my sentences as I'm not a great writer.

6) Helped me quickly understand the steel beam requirements in my house that I'm planning a reno on

7) Wrote some PHP code for our customer-facing applications (bug fixes, refactoring, too!)

8) did some business analysis - i.e. operating costs/etc and we used this analysis to expand profitably into new markets (geographically...) considering extra transportation costs, etc. (faster than going Excel)

9) sense-check financial models I build in Excel (second set of eyes)

10) Wrote some code in python for personal interest, ran successfully.

11) helped research tax implications of Canadian estate holding US real estate, and tax implications on US and Canadian beneficiaries

12) wrote an obituary. first draft, minor edits.

13) wrote a letter to counter a credit card transaction dispute (all I had to do is input a list of the transactions)

The list goes on... I just encourage people to expand the mind.

[nmfisher]

I agree. I can't take claims of consciousness/intelligence seriously but that doesn't mean I throw the baby out with the bathwater. GPT4[0][1] isn't perfect, but it's an incredibly useful tool, and I encourage everyone to experiment to figure out what it does well, and how to integrate it into your job/hobby/passion projects in the near future.

[0] I couldn't recommend earlier variants (even GPT-3.5) because they weren't powerful/reliable enough. Way too many simple mistakes to be a net positive. In my experience, GPT-4 is far superior. [1] Applies to all LLMs, not just OpenAI's GPT-4. Everyone else is catching up quickly.

[hajile]

I’m going to assume you aren’t a legal expert, but you trust this thing to write legally binding contracts that may accidentally use words and phrasing that do something different than you expect?

I seriously doubt GPT understands which laws and case laws apply to which areas. It could be creating a contract that does something you don’t want or even a one that isn’t enforceable.

Pay a lawyer. There’s a lot to gain if you do and a lot to lose if you don’t.

[tyrelb]

I wouldn't use it to blindly write an ee contract, just make some enhancements in key areas.

From my experience, hiring the right lawyer, in the right jurisdiction, for the right issue/case is important.

Great advice for everyone though - there's a lot to gain from the right lawyer.

[jimsimmons]

what exactly is your job?

This reads more like an all-star capabilities brochure than someone’s real life/work

[tyrelb]

Entrepreneur with a number of businesses and projects on the go... majority of my time is in the funeral/death care industry. What I don't outsource, I just learn and do myself. For example, saw an opportunity and had to self-teach programming to build an end-to-end death care software platform that handles 1000's of funeral arrangements each year.