This article spoke to me because I'm reaching that age where I'm thinking about what comes after my career at NRC (especially in the light of back-to-office orders). Helen Blunden asks chatGPT "about what to do with my life before I 'formally' retire at 65." The response was a perfectly good if bland set of recommendations. What's fun about this post is that Blunden offers by way of comparison what a good response to the question would look like. For example, instead of 'learn a new language' the recommendation should be "fly to New Caledonia and undertake the CREIPAC French immersive program." Instead of 'considering a new career path' a good recommendation would be "take a short course in acting then get yourself on a register and apply for paid and unpaid extra work to be in a video production." Not only are these more specific, they're specific about her context and interests. That's what really good AI would look like, but for it to work we have to create and share a lot of content about ourselves the AI can use.
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