Can you beat ChatGPT?
OpenAI's impact on Leaders, Learning & Talent.
First things first. If you don’t know of or have not tried ChatGPT, click here.
Since the day of its launch, I have asked ChatGPT to answer every odd question that I could think of.
I have asked it to code, write a poem, compare random things, answer deeper questions, write a note, dive into history and comment on a few goofy ideas.
At the end of it, I am left wondering where will this go?
Especially: How will ChatGPT and OpenAI impact leaders, learning and talent?
Of course, I could ask ChatGPT the same question. Then I don’t need to write this newsletter. You could ask ChatGPT the same question too. Then again you don’t need to read this newsletter. This is an important point that I will come back to at the end of this newsletter. For now, keep reading!
Let me start with what seems to be clear to me.
ChatGPT will empower.
In doing so, ChatGPT will level the playing field.
Which is another way of saying it will democratize knowledge and communication.
ChatGPT will empower.
Take an example of someone asking ChatGPT to write an essay about a subject. This person can be located anywhere, come from any background, any level of privilege or status. ChatGPT will not differentiate. The same good-quality essay will be available to all.
ChatGPT is not Google. It does not provide sources of information. It provides the information. It provides real knowledge, competently organized, and effectively communicated.
Can you already sense how ChatGPT will begin to level the playing field?
As it provides universally available answers, ChatGPT will begin to erode:
Differences between people, created because of the ability to communicate in English
Differences in acquisition of knowledge that comes from going to school, going to a better school, going to college and every other form of formal education that requires money.
The impact of ChatGPT on organization hierarchy will be similar. For the same reasons.
This is not revolutionary. Yet, it is. The direction is not revolutionary. The scale of impact may be.
We were already on the path of democratization of knowledge and information. Internet did it. Google enabled it. Wikipedia played a role. Online learning platforms, in and outside of companies, achieved the same goal. ChatGPT is following the same trajectory. Just taking it to a whole new level for an individual.
As ChatGPT lifts the level of knowledge and communication for everyone, let us assess the impact on some organization factors.
Leaders:
If expertise and knowledge get democratized with ChatGPT and OpenAI, what will be the new source of leadership?
Learning:
If you can know everything, what next?
Talent:
If everyone can obtain the same knowledge, at the same high level, how do you build individual value?
As our access to knowledge becomes universal, instant, and omni-present, our differentiation will come from building and creating, not just knowing. ‘Knowing more’ will become difficult, even impossible. Knowing more will not create a leader, high-performing talent, or an effective learning objective.
The source of leadership will be the ability to build and create.
A great learning strategy will be one that enables you to build and create.
High performing talent will be one that can build and create.
Think of it another way. Building is creating new realities. Once you create a new reality, it becomes ‘knowledge’ that ChatGPT then provides as an answer to others.
So, the question is: Can you beat ChatGPT? Are you ahead of ChatGPT? Do you build or create something that ChatGPT then offers as output to others?
At the start of this newsletter, I asked the question: “Why would you read my newsletter to answer the question on ChatGPT’s impact on leaders, learning and talent? Why won’t you ask ChatGPT the question directly?”
Try it. Go to ChatGPT and ask the question. Then tell me if that answer was more valuable than this newsletter.
Let us keep building. Send in your views and comments on the use cases of ChatGPT or how ChatGPT will change us. Look forward to your creation.
This is real, applied and tested by all who walked the path of taking higher roles & responsibilities. How do you apply the knowledge, handling and responding to situations, creative intelligence, decision making, collaboration agility and many more such that helps you build and create..Chatgpt or any AI cannot offer this.. Therefore the differentiator is clear.. Thanks Nalin for calling this out..