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This is day 27 of 100 (our goal - 100 consecutive days!) and today we will:

1. celebrate the UK

2. say “what . . wait . . GPT-5?” Many of you are still in GPT-3.5

3. make lean six sigma trainers obsolete (kidding?)

4. talk news you can use and lose

Wall of Feedback - Brainyacts is big in the UK!

Huge THANK YOU to:

William Jarvis-Smith, MBA Candidate at Henley Business School, Newcastle UK

Sarah Sheehan, Consultant | Law | Legal Design | Legal Tech, Oxford UK

😱 🚀🧨 GPT is screaming ahead!

ChatGPT is being adopted by companies worldwide. As OpenAI works on its next big update, GPT-5, let's explore the recent GPT-4 update and what to expect from GPT-5.

• GPT-4 introduced multimodal input, supporting text and images, and multiple languages.

• OpenAI improved ChatGPT's performance, making it capable of achieving top grades in exams.

• Future plugins may connect ChatGPT to the live internet for specific tasks.

• Rumors suggest GPT-5 may bring ChatGPT closer to artificial general intelligence (AGI), where chatbots are indistinguishable from humans.

• GPT-5 is expected to be completed by December, with a possible intermediate version (GPT-4.5) in September or October.

• GPT-5 should be free for Bing Chat users, while ChatGPT Plus members may need to pay at least $20 per month for full access.

• Privacy concerns in Europe could potentially delay GPT-5's rollout or affect pricing.

• Once GPT-5 is released, GPT-4 may power the free version of ChatGPT.

Use Case: Replace $$ Training

I am going to cannibalize part of my own business here for the sake of your learning! I cannot believe I am going to do this but you deserve it (or maybe it’s just too fun to show the disruptive power of ChatGPT).

Either way here we go.

Lean Six Sigma and Design Thinking. Two big topics in legal over the last decade. They come. They go. They ebb. They flow. But they never disappear.

Many consultants and educators have made a living out of teaching and training people in these arenas (eh hem!) 😳

But now you get to train yourself. Well with the help of ChatGPT.

What I am about to show you is a pathway to access a beginner's understanding of these work concepts. It will not make you a practitioner, but it will show you the key components and help you apply them. All for Free!

Screw it, let’s do this!

▶︎▶︎Prompt

🚨 Before you begin you will need some type of detailed notes or a narrative of an actual project you are thinking of tackling. I am going to be using a case study I wrote some time ago that I use as a teaching tool.

If you want to learn how to use ChatGPT to create yours, reach out I will let you know. Or be brave. Be bold. Apply what you have been learning through this newsletter to create your own case study! I know you can.

So you can play along, here is a link to the case study I am using. Use it to play with and test different ideas based on what I am sharing below.

You can also see all of the following prompts and replies in this 🔗 link to my complete session I outline below.

Step 1

Prime ChatGPT to get it in the right frame of mind to be highly effective for you.

▶︎▶︎PROMPT

I will share a partial case study with you below. Review the case study. Identify the underlying challenges, critical obstacles, and potential metrics at stake. Then explain how the following frameworks could be used to help address the underlying challenges and reach a beneficial solution. The frameworks are lean six sigma, design thinking, agile, and system thinking.

You will then get a reply similar to this:

I'm happy to help you with your case study! However, I do not see the partial case study you mentioned in your message. Please provide the case study so I can review it and provide you with a helpful response.

Now is when you copy the text from the case study, your notes, the project charter, or whatever you have on the project. NOTE: for the case study I used, I did not copy any of the non-essential text (I left off my case, document credentials, etc.).

Its reply and analysis were lengthy and so it stopped, mid-thought.

▶︎▶︎PROMPT

please continue where you left off

It picks right up and finishes its reply.

Step 2

While its reply was solid, it was not detailed enough to take action on or to say we have been trained yet.

So let’s use one of my POWER PROMPTS to dig in. And we are going to learn lean six sigma for this example.

▶︎▶︎PROMPT

elaborate on lean six sigma. Please provide a detailed project plan that we might follow to apply lean six sigma to help Linda.

Ok, now we are getting to the good stuff. First, it defines Lean Six Sigma. Then it begins to apply it to this case study.

Step 3

Here is where you start to use it as your personal trainer to learn Lean Six Sigma. You want to drill down into each of the key elements and topics that it shared.

You should do this for each one.

Let’s go back to the tried and true “elaborate on” but let’s add a new POWER PROMPT that I have used in the past but not called out specifically. I now have used it enough to know it is a great hack to get ChatGPT to be specific and smart!

Asking for the biggest mistake and best practices tends to unlock great insight and reasoning from Chat GPT.

So we combine all three in this prompt.

▶︎▶︎PROMPT

Elaborate on Define the Problem, what are the biggest mistakes people often make and what are the best practices?

Step 4

For those familiar with Lean Six Sigma or just humans in general, you know that many people gloss over how hard it is and how vital it is to properly define the problem.

Cue Mr. Einstein “I Would Spend 55 Minutes Defining the Problem and then Five Minutes Solving It.”

Unsurprisingly ChatGPT noted poor problem definition as a typical big mistake.

Like any decent trainer, you should get examples of good and bad problem statements. Let's get those now.

▶︎▶︎PROMPT

Provide examples of great problem statements and poor problem statements.

In reviewing the reply, it definitely gave me a strong delineation between great and poor.

But let’s test it on our case study. After all, we are learning but we are also trying to apply this to something real.

🎱 🏄‍♂️ PRO TIP: In the prompt below instead of asking to just create the problem statement, I asked if it had enough info. In the past, in other use cases, it has indicated it does not (but it will then try to). But at least you know it is proceeding with guesses and not much reasoning.

▶︎▶︎PROMPT

Do you have enough information to create a great problem statement in relation to Linda? If so, please do.

Step 5

Head back to Step 3 above and choose the next concept or topic ChatGPT gave you in terms of applying lean six sigma. Go through the remaining steps. Do this until you cover all the concepts.

💣💥🤯 BOOM!!

There you go.

Now you have a really solid head start on breaking down your project and beginning to see how to take action.

PLUS you are learning lean six sigma in a way that you can directly relate to. Does this mean you have no need for any more training, no it doesn’t.

But can this empower you and give you agency to push beyond where you might have without this knowledge and practical approach - you bet your backside it can!

And yes sub out lean six sigma for any known work method like design thinking or agile.

🔗 Here is the link to my complete session once again.

News you can use : 

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Great podcast with Google Head on what is going on inside Google. Is it losing its leadership as the go-to internet site for all things?

News you can lose: 

Why is this in news you can lose? Simple. We need to just accept the fact that AI will only get exponentially better. Below it shows how GenAI image generation can be (left side) and where it is now and going (right side).

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