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A couple of examples:

Using RAG on a set of docs for a project it's possible to get good answers to specific questions (and ask follow ups, etc) - really speeds up understanding, like having someone who knows their stuff answering questions for you all the time.

Making meeting notes, summarizing discussions - frees the note taker and produces a nice record of what happened.

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And even that application is leading to this abuse which kills the benefit:

Person A: ChatGPT, expand these bullet points into a ten page presentation.

(sends to person B)

Person B: ChatGPT, scan this ten page presentation and give me the main points.

Yeah but someday, the ChatGPT service will fail, people will send the bullet points directly because that's what they're accustomed to writing now, recipients will be pleasantly surprised to see the summarizer working automatically, and countless hours of wasted human effort will be saved with no further computation required.

To me, that is like printing out an document and scanning it later to send to someone. It happened a lot in the early days of email.

I don't know about anyone else, but for me the value in taking notes is the actual process of taking the notes, not the end product of the notes themselves.

Having AI (or, indeed, a human colleague) do it for me is a bit pointless, as it eliminates 90% of the value.

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