GPT-4 for Executives

I feel like a kid with a new bike.  GPT-4 is opening up so many new avenues for discoveries!  In fact, our Future of Business team here at TCS now has weekly trainings and discussions on how GPT-4 works, and how best to use it.  I am just beginning my learning journey, but already some things are clear. GPT-4 has an enormous amount of useful knowledge if you know how to find it.  It's mostly common sense, but here are some helpful things I am recognizing.

1. Learn the right way to ask questions.  The better and more specific your questions are the better the answers.  That seems basic, but asking GPT-4 a list of similar questions will quickly show you which ones work better.
2. Tell GPT-4 who it is before it answers a question, e.g., GPT-4, you are a data scientist, or you are a bioengineering scientist, or you are a fireman.  Giving GPT-4 a personna gives it a POV (point of view) to answer question from a specific perspective.
3. Understand how to frame questions based on logical arguments and frameworks.  
4. The paid subscription version of GPT-4 remembers your previous chats/conversations, so you can go back to a discussion you had last week, and ask GPT-4 to expand on its answers.  It archives your conversations for future reference.
5. GPT-4 is good at finding your knowledge blind spots.  You might think you understand a subject, but you can ask GPT-4 to help you create checklists of things that are often overlooked, or that only experienced experts would know about a subject.  The lists often reveals things not previously considered.  This enables one to fill in the blind spots.
6. You can combine questions and personas to get fascinating answers.  For example, GPT-4 is both a futurist and a fireman writing an essay on the future of firefighting from Jeeps.  What things would be important to a firefighter that drives a Jeep deep into the mountains?  These endless combinations make for stimulating conversations with your family and friends.
7. You can also ask GPT-4 to create a counter argument.  How would those that are opposed to argument #1, counter it?
8. You can also ask GPT-4 to take the persona of your competition.  How might my competition respond if I launched a new product that did xyz in this market?  

Hopefully, your creative juices are flowing and you can see how nearly every position in an organization where decision-making is important could benefit from having their own subscription.

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Kevin Benedict

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***Full Disclosure: These are my personal opinions. No company is silly enough to claim them. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.