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Foreign hey there. Welcome to the Chat GPT Experiment. This is a podcast designed to help curious folks better understand what Chat GPT is and find ways to use it in your personal and professional life. My name is Carrie Weston and I am your host. Appreciate you being with me. First time visitors welcome Repeat visitors, welcome back. This is the first time that I have recorded a podcast in my truck. I am maybe like you, a travel sport team parent and I find my time split between playing Daddy Taxi and waiting for things to start. Waiting for things to end. And currently I am at baseball practice waiting for it to end. So I thought this would be a good time to make use of my idle waiting time and get a podcast out of my head. So yeah, I'm sitting in the front seat of my truck and getting thoughts out of my head which will eventually become this version of the podcast. So how are you doing? Spring here in Maine and the snow banks are melting and we're lucky enough to have an artificial turf field so we get outside a little quicker and it's went to dinner last night, found that it was lighter later, which is awesome. So good things ahead. Hey, listen, this episode probably a little controversial in some folks mind, probably a little threatening in some folks mind. So I'm going to lead with an asterisk that you got to be careful, you've got to use common sense and you've got to use this advice as a tool and not a replacement. Okay? And the reason is because the topic of this week's episode is using ChatGPT for personal advice. And personal advice, I'll give you in this conversation a few different scenarios that I've either used or I have interacted with others and they have shared with me that they have used. And again, under the caveat of you really have to be responsible, you really have to look at this as research and a tool and not a replacement for someone who is certified or someone who is licensed or someone who is experienced or authorized. Right? All that kind of thing. Because I think we're going to be careful these days in having absolutes, anything, right? And we don't want to devalue experiences, we don't want to devalue people's credentials, we don't want to devalue traditional methods of, let's just say, service and help. But I do, I do tell you that through personal experience, there is a tremendous amount of benefit available in using ChatGPT for some of these personal advice situations. And I'll walk with you first, a few here first. So the first one is really where we probably have to be the most careful. But personal counseling, having someone to talk to, getting situations out of your head, getting help with situations. And let me give you a few instances where this has come into play. So I've shared with you in other episodes the ability for ChatGPT to help understand how people communicate. And I've referenced, and I'll reference here, Myers Briggs or Disc disk profiling. These are examples of tools that will allow you to understand how you and others give information, receive information, how you look at communication, how you interact with others to help you define patterns, both good and bad growth opportunities, maybe help explain why there's friction, maybe explain how people can and cannot work together, that kind of thing. Well, ChatGPT is excellent in trying to interpret and I'll say trying, right? Because again, there's no gospel. This is a tool in trying to interpret or trying to help you understand others. That's probably just a good umbrella statement. It's really good at helping you understand others. And there might be a variety of reasons that you need to understand others. Right. So counseling, getting through a problem, talking something out, trying to understand it. This is something that I have found ChatGPT to be really, really helpful for. Right. And you know, the ability of saying this happened, this happened with this person, or this happened in this situation, I need to understand it, I need to process it, I need to figure out what it means. I need to figure out why the other person may have done this or said this or acted this way. Let me give you some background and I would like you to ask me questions. Right. One of my guiding principles with ChatGPT is please ask me questions one at a time so you can better understand best understand the situation, the goal, the task at hand. And I have found it to be a really effective communication partner in helping me understand situations and people. Okay. In fact, I have a few specific conversations that I leave for either people or for situations, so it can continue to learn. And I feel like I'm talking to someone who understands. Right. Who chronologically understands what I've asked before, what I've dealt with before, what I've tried to understand before. Right. And all the elements that go through that. So if you haven't done that, you really do have to be careful because we start getting into. This is why the asterisk comes up. Right. We get into mental health issues or we get into scenarios of decision making. And, you know, that's a. It's always. That's always a dangerous or situation where you have to be careful. So I am absolutely not advising you to treat ChatGPT like a counselor that gives you advice and you take that advice. What I'm saying is there's a. There's an opportunity here, there's a tool here that allows you to use ChatGPT to understand things, to think it out loud, to get stuff out of your head, to process it, to have other experiences. And you can utilize that for a number of different ways. Right. The second one is it's amazing how powerful it can be to help you understand the law or legal terms or legal scenarios. Right now, this is a minefield of regulatory specifics and details. And as you go from federal and state and state to state situation to situation, there's all kinds of changes and specifics that come into play. So again, I'm not saying that ChatGPT can be your lawyer. What I'm saying is ChatGPT can certainly help you understand legal situations, legal terms, and provide you some legal guidance specifically for things to think about, be prepared for, or to understand. And As I made a presentation to a group a few weeks ago, I tried to demonstrate this in front of them. And chatgpt has some built in things now that I want to share with you. So if I say I need you to help me with legal advice, I've done this a couple times and it's coming back now and it says, I am not a lawyer, ChatGPT cannot be a lawyer. You want to consult a professional. Right. And so I can work around that by saying, I understand that you're not a lawyer. I'm not asking you to replicate or become a lawyer. However, I do need your help in understanding some legal terms or help me better prepare for a legal situation. So when you kind of vanguard it that way and you tell it that I'm not, I'm not looking for you to be a replacement to a lawyer and I do not want you to give me specific legal advice that I will follow. And of course what's happening, there is accountability, right? But if you share with it that I'm looking for help in clarifying and understanding and preparing, you know, for whatever it might be, legal discussions, legal situations, or maybe even I need to go talk to a lawyer, but I don't even know what I'm talking about yet, I need to better understand what they may ask me or what I need to be prepared for, or what are the possible choices or outcomes or. Right. All that kind of stuff. The ability for you to use ChatGPT in that scenario has been terrifically helpful because it really brings a knowledge base in a specific area and you can tell it, I am a novice, so please explain it to me in as simplest terms as possible and it will do that. Right. And so legal and counseling, those are two scenarios. Here's a scenario that someone shared with me that I thought was really excellent. I'll share it with you. And it's financial banking. And a gentleman approached me at a, at a workshop and said, I wanted to share with you how I used ChatGPT to help my dad. And he said, my dad has had a business and it's time for him because of his age, it's time for him to sell or find a buyer for the business. And we actually live in a small town and we only have one banker who is kind of experienced in this area because it's a small town and if you live in one, you can understand what he said to me. But he said, because it's a small town, we were really hesitant in putting all of our finances in front of this person. Because even though his job requires him to keep it to himself, it's a small town and, you know, there really aren't many secrets. And he said his dad was really nervous and anxious, not for that scenario, but because this is the business that he's had for most of his life and he doesn't know anything about how to value it, how to sell it, how to package it. Right. And so they were putting a lot of trust in this one person. And of course, anything like that, that's a big decision, anything like that's going to cause anxiety. Understandable. And so what they decided to do, and this was a story that he was sharing with me, is instead of going to this person and saying, here's what we have for a business, here's all of our financials, you take a look at it and tell me what it's worth, you know, and what I should ask and all that. They decided to empower themselves with some information before they went in. And so they utilized ChatGPT as a guide in that area. Now, this is where I put another asterisk up, because ChatGPT, for the most part is a public domain database and there are ways in which you can protect yourself and, and not share. But for the most part, these are guiding principles that I want to share with you. You never want to put personal information, such as medical information or your finances, your P and L, right into this model, into Chat GPT, because you don't want that to go into the public domain or have it be readily available. Right. So safeguarding yourself, and this is again back to the beginning with the asterisk. You really want to be responsible in how you approach and use this tool. And so they had shared numbers in a generic way and then asked ChatGPT to ask them questions so they could best understand how they could A, evaluate their business, evaluate their business, and B, what do they need to have ready, what do they need to think about, what do they need to prepare in order to have a conversation with a business valuation expert, like they were going to do or to be ready to sell? And so they went down the path and used ChatGPT as a personal advice tool in that regard. And he said what we found was really helpful and valuable for a couple reasons. One, it helped them understand terms and lingo that the banker or the financial advisor would use that they weren't aware of and they wanted to better understand it. And two, it helped them understand that they were short in two or three areas. And so they had homework, they were able to identify the things that they needed to put together, that they needed to gather, organize, find, so that they could be better prepared. And what he said was, we realized we were probably a year early because some of the things that were needed, we didn't have yet. Right. And so he's still in that journey, but it feels, he feels like it saved them, some effort, saved them, you know, walking into a conversation blind and save them from maybe being somewhere that they didn't want to be, which is maybe understanding that they were unprepared to do what they needed to do. Right? So, hey, there's three situations right there. Counseling, legal, financial, in which you can utilize the tool to your advantage. All right, so there you have it. You can see why I talk about asterisks and being careful, right? There's some stuff here that we just want to be careful with and be responsible with. But with that in mind, if you use it the right way, I found it to be an incredible, incredibly objective, incredibly valuable partner in the conversation. Giving advice and direction and some clarity. Right? Just helping you see other people's perspective or see the perspective of an issue or a situation that you may not be familiar with or struggling to deal with or just trying to understand in a different way. So I hope that was helpful. I see now looking out, the practice is coming to a conclusion. So I think I timed this pretty good. And who knows, maybe there's more mobile podcast recordings coming in the future, right? We have so many tools these days to be doing this from just about anywhere. As long as you can make it sound good and give some value, then why not, right? Why not make the most of the idle time that you have? So the constant advice I give you, no matter what the topic is, is your curiosity, of course, is the most important component component in learning how to use and manage and get value out of ChatGPT. So as we wind this down and until we talk again, I do appreciate you listening. Do stay curious. Okay, we'll talk soon.