Todd Duplain found out about the popular artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT, developed by OpenAI, the way most Americans did: on TV.
The principal at Dayton-based Woodard Development was watching the nightly news earlier this year when a segment on generative AI technology appeared — immediately fascinating him.
“At that point, I was completely unaware of it,” he told the Dayton Business Journal. “I never heard the term.”
So, Duplain went to his computer, created a ChatGPT account and began asking it questions.
Having a presentation scheduled in the coming weeks, he told the AI to write a two-page outline on specific real estate issues. In seconds, Duplain remembers, the chatbot spit out contents that “blew (him) away.” Sure, it needed work, he said, but it “probably got me about 70% of the way there.”
“I was literally blown away by the capabilities at that point,” he said. “Now it’s grown even significantly since then.”