MIT study: ChatGPT increases productivity for human workers

While I have my reservations and own views toward the ethics of the tech, the one thing in always come back to is that it has significantly cut down the time I spent on tasks in my job and allows me to focus on things that will help me grow and improve.

Not to mentioned the better work/life balance.

From the study:

The tasks demanded clear, persuasive, relatively generic writing, which are arguably ChatGPT’s central strengths. They did not require context-specific knowledge or precise factual accuracy.

And:

We required short tasks that could be explicitly described for and performed by a range of anonymous workers online

The graphs also show greater improvement for the lowest performers than for the high performers.

Definitely an encouraging result, but in line with anecdotes that, currently, LLMs are only useful for genetic and low complexity tasks, and are most helpful for low performers.