What does ChatGPT mean for my presentations?

The short answer: Nothing.

If you’re a CTO, ChatGPT and AI are helping your coders a lot. They probably save them boatloads of time. They might even be helping clean up their code or even write blocks of code that would be a waste of time for a human.

But when you’re making a mission-critical presentation, ChatGPT and AI will only make you slightly better than average. And when you are asking the board to authorize a $10 million spend, or telling a recalcitrant customer service department why a new piece of software is going to make their lives better, “slightly above average” is not where you want to be.

You see, those situations require that you take a complicated idea that normally needs hours to explain, and sum it up in 5 sentences. And that is definitely, definitely, not something ChatGPT is good at.

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