Here’s what I think about AI after a week of using ChatGPT and Copilot for work

Almost all year I have been hearing that artificial intelligence will revolutionize all areas of human activity. I am a technology enthusiast, but after so many years of observing technological advancements, I know that there are many marketing in this industry. And I’m not the only one who thinks so. Well, after I basically tried ChatGPT for writing a few feature articles and found the OpenAI chatbot to be quite good for practicing my English, I decided to try it along with Copilot (Microsoft’s artificial intelligence assistant integrated into Windows 11 ) to see how much these tools can help. help me in my daily work: that is, in writing the articles that you read here. I worked for a week using AI and this is what happened.

Case 1: Ask the co-pilot for an image.

I started with what I thought was the easiest thing: asking Copilot to create a cover illustration for a comparison I made between YouTube Music and Spotify.

Copilot works just like other AI chatbots, it’s almost like a WhatsApp chat where you ask questions. artificial intelligence do something. First, I asked him to create an image for an article about the differences between YouTube Music and Spotify. The first result was very bad:

Then I asked him to make a comparison of the logos of both services. He threw up this image, which, although I didn’t like it at all, is more in line with the logo, combining the identities of both brands:

I kept adjusting the prompt until I was asked to match the YouTube Music and Spotify logos head-to-head and make a comparison image of both services. Here’s the result (already cropped, as I’ll describe later):

Bingo! – I thought. Now I just need the image to have a 16:9 aspect ratio, like the covers it uses. Digital Trends in Spanish and other websites. I literally just asked the co-pilot to adjust the image to this aspect ratio, but he sent another square image – a pretty good one, by the way.

I kept trying but still couldn’t get a 16:9 image, so I decided to crop it.

Verdict: Copilot definitely did a better job than I did, and while the speed at which it generates images is surprising, I think we’re still a long way from the job a graphic designer could do. Worse, it’s very difficult for me to understand resins which are usually sent by clients.

Case 2: I requested an interview transcript from Copilot and ChatGPT.

First I asked the co-pilot if he could record the interview. He told me yes, I just needed to upload the file. I thought that by clicking on the + button I would find an option to upload files, but since I didn’t see it, I asked Copilot how to upload a file. This is what he answered me:

Verdict: The co-pilot had a fiasco when transcribing my interview.

I then asked ChatGPT if I could transcribe the same interview. As a co-pilot, he responded that he had the ability and that all he had to do was upload the audio file. ChatGPT has a button to add files, so I uploaded my interview and waited for the result.

It was a little disappointing to wait (admittedly a short wait) to find that ChatGPT couldn’t do the transcription either, however I found it extremely positive that it offered alternatives to getting my transcript. I started going through them one by one in sentence order.

Otter.ai requested access to my Google calendar (access allowed it to download my calendars), and since my work account is also my personal account, I chose to move on to the next option for privacy reasons.

So I googled Sonix and eventually found page called Clipto AI in which, indeed, I can make a transcription. I started reading and it turned out that I had to pay.

I moved on to the next option, “Describe.” I just googled Descript but ended up on a different page, Turboscribe. The page said you could do three transcriptions a day completely free before paying for any of their subscription plans. I signed up using my Google account and at least I didn’t notice any suspicious activity violating the privacy of my online information. I requested the transcript and finally got a good result. You can read this result here.

Verdict: Although ChatGPT did not achieve what it promised, its suggestions ultimately led me to a satisfactory result in less time than it would have taken me to transcribe my 14-minute interview.

Scenario 3: I asked Copilot and ChatGPT to write an article similar to the one I am writing.

First, I asked Copilot to use a comparison I wrote of the Galaxy A55 and Galaxy S23 FE as a reference. I then asked him, following this tone and structure, to make a comparison between Realme C63 and Realme C61. You can read the results here.

Verdict: The co-pilot launched several hoaxes about both phones. For example, he said that the Realme C63 was the first smartphone in the segment to come with a genuine leather case or that it could have up to 24GB of virtual RAM. He also said that while the Realme C63 and Realme C61 share the same camera system, the C63 has AI features that it doesn’t have. In fact, in my comparison I highlighted that, inexplicably, the C61 has a fully functional portrait mode.

Then I ordered the same product with almost the same fast to ChatGPT.

Verdict: ChatGPT also made a few hoaxes, such as saying the C61 has a 32-megapixel camera rather than a 50-megapixel one. He also made mistakes by stating that the Realme C61’s base memory is 64GB instead of 128GB, or that fast charging is 18W instead of 45W. In conclusion, if I had used this article as a basis for comparing Realme C63 and Realme C61, my editor and readers would have killed me. The result can be read here.