Lewis Killwick-Vintner

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Recently, while studying for my exams, I decided to experiment with some AI tools that isn’t ChatGPT. I was looking for something that could help me summarise and understand papers. After I bit of researching, I came across ChatPDF. It’s a free application where you can upload a PDF file and you can ask its chatbot to ask any questions about the paper.

As explained in BlockchainNews (2023), ChatPDF uses ChatGPT technology. Besides being able to provide summaries and explanations of what is contained in the PDF, it is also able to provide academic sources to what is contained in the PDF. Based on this, one can deduce that people such as researchers and students would be considered as target audiences of this app.

Below are some things that I did with ChatPDF:

Figure 1. Asking what is an NFT according to the paper

Figure 2. Asking to list the key terms in the paper

Figure 3. Asking it to summarise the paper

I’m sure that at some point this application will go extinct as soon as ChatGPT will introduce a PDF reading functionality in its free version. However, with current free version ChatGPT you can’t upload any sort of file and ask it to read it.

So, for the time being, people like me are resorting to alternatives like ChatPDF!

As you can see from the figures above, ChatPDF seems very easy to use. Moreover, you don’t need to create an account meaning that you can use instantly as soon as you get into the application’s website. Best of all, unlike many other AI tools, this is free!

For the time being, I think this AI tool is very useful. However, I don’t think that the existence of this tool will last for long. I’m of the opinion that Microsoft, OpenAI and Google will become the main sources of AI tools in the future. What I mean by this is that, while we can access many AI tools, many of them will be bought by these companies that I just mentioned.

Have you ever used ChatPDF? Do you know any equivalents of this app? Do you think this app will exist for long? Let me know in the comments!

References

Blockchain News. (2023, September 24). What is chatpdf?. https://blockchain.news/wiki/what-is-chatpdf

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Since ChatGPT’s release less than a year ago, it is no surprise that people are wondering which jobs will go extinct. People use ChatGPT for doing all sorts of things such as drafting emails, generating code, etc…

As of September this year, Business Insider (2023) published an article listing jobs that are most likely at risk to go extinct because of ChatGPT; one of the jobs mentioned in the article is the one of data analysts.

As a student in Business Information Management, I find this information intriguing. I’ve definitely considered becoming a data analyst myself and I’m curious to know to what extent ChatGPT will impact the role of data analysts.

Interestingly, in an article by News18 (2023), it is mentioned that employing ChatGPT to do analytics “costs less than 1% of a human analyst”. This doesn’t surprise me since anyone can access ChatGPT and anyone can ask it to analyze data, even if the person had no clue what they were doing. Moreover, in an article by KDNuggets (2023), it is mentioned that ChatGPT and AI have made data scientist jobs a lot more accessible to the wider crowd. Before ChatGPT, data scientists were in very high demand due to their valuable skill sets (KDNuggets, 2023). Moreover, with the current version of ChatGPT (ChatGPT 4), one can upload csv files and get an in depth analysis in seconds (KDNuggets, 2023)

Based on these news articles, one could assume that data analysts would soon go extinct. However, that is not entirely true.

Both articles have stated that even the latest version of ChatGPT (ChatGPT 4) has its drawbacks. For instance, it can generate bad analyses and therefore give misleading results (News18, 2023; KDNuggets, 2023).

One thing is for sure, the role of data analysts will definitely change. In the last two hundred years, many roles have changed or even gone extinct thanks to technological advancements. However, that human analysts will go extinct is still too soon say!

References

Business Insider (2023). Chatgpt may be coming for our jobs. here are the 10 roles that AI is most likely to replace. Business Insider. https://www.businessinsider.com/chatgpt-jobs-at-risk-replacement-artificial-intelligence-ai-labor-trends-2023-02?international=true&r=US&IR=T

News18 (2023). CHATGPT can do human-like data analysis at a fraction of the cost: What it means. News18. https://www.news18.com/tech/chatgpt-can-do-human-like-data-analysis-at-a-fraction-of-the-cost-7962229.html

Will CHATGPT replace data scientists?. KDnuggets. (n.d.). Will CHATGPT replace data scientists? https://www.kdnuggets.com/2023/06/chatgpt-replace-data-scientists.html

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