I really don’t mind being a guinea pig. I am getting AI to speed up and improve work, work on my personal life, even help me create new business ventures and I am learning a lot as I do it.
I use ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity. I have downloaded NotebookLM, which is apparently great for slides, but I have not used it yet and have not used Perplexity in a while. One of my academic friends said it was the best at dealing with academic references.
I have used ChatGPT and Claude for editing business documents (one such document brought in a major partner), get me smart about different corporate structures for an insurance venture (mission-locked foundation, insurance company and captives and a prevention trust) and jurisdiction (NL, Bermuda, Jersey, …) before we talk to the lawyers, rewriting my bio to make it snazzy, figuring out an exercise/health program, finding the right equipment for cycling, picking which electric car would be best for ShawWife, etc.
On my current plate, my academic co-author and I plan to take an article we wrote 10+ years ago that has not gotten the traction that it should have and substantially revamp/rewrite/modernize it. I tried using ChatGPT and despite question me on a lot of things, it has kept coming out thin. I’m now working with Claude on this. I am using Claude to write an app that helps seniors with Part D Medicare plans decide where to send their prescriptions. Will take a few hours more of my time for an MVP. I am doing this for myself but there might be market more generally.
And, one of the big consulting firms is talking with me and my partner about embedding our expertise into agents for their clients. I expect to learn a lot from this. Another firm we use has built an agent that we are using but I didn’t see it get built so I did not learn as much as I could have.
A couple of my more tech-oriented friends have built agents to do parts of their work. I would like to try this as well. Just keep on learning and guinea-pigging.