Hi ,
If you're going camping, and space is at a premium, you can't go far wrong in packing a Swiss Army Knife.
From scissors to screwdrivers and from toothpicks to tweezers, you get the functionality of over twenty tools, in the space occupied by one.
Yet, few people use a Swiss
Army Knife in their everyday lives.
Although Swiss Army Knives are useful when there's nothing else around, individual stand-alone tools are typically preferable, if you're given the choice.
Here's the thing...
ChatGPT is an awesome tool and can perform a multitude of tasks, including proof reading, translation, summarization and code generation, to name a few. And if this was the
only tool available, you could certainly make do.
But it's rare that this is ever going to be true.
In
many cases, specialized tools exist that can perform these tasks much better.
Investing in tools can be expensive - even just in terms of the time needed to learn the ropes. So, once you've invested in a tool, it's human nature to want to get the most from it.
But that can lead to you letting a tool determine how you perform a task, rather than the other way around.
Regardless of how
exceptional a tool may seem, the best results are achieved by putting results first and selecting a tool from there.
Talk again soon,
Dr Genevieve Hayes.
p.s. I recently had the opportunity to speak to "data whisperer" Maria Ferrés on Value Driven Data Science about the importance of putting results before tools. You can listen to the entire conversation at the link HERE.
