the mental defect of the GPT chat and AI
In my email yesterday I mentioned that a girl had asked me what type of chat GPT or AI tech I use to write my daily emails.
I didn't respond to avoid being directly offensive to her. But I did think how mentally poor that girl could be to assume that everyone who writes frequently has to use AI.
It's like asking a mathematician how you can multiply the 12 table without using a calculator. WOW!
With today's technologies, I wouldn't be surprised if that WOW is true for many people.
And technology helps, a lot. I totally agree and am convinced of that. But I also think it brutalizes a lot of people.
Many years ago, every time I took a taxi, the taxi driver knew all the streets by heart and intelligently knew how to get to your destination without the need for any GPS. Nowadays, every time I take an Uber they absolutely have no idea where they are or where they are going without GPS. Their sense of mental location is totally damaged. They get lost in the streets or take the longest route without any sense.
I've fallen into that too. In school I could memorize girls' phone numbers and it could stay stuck in my head for months, even years. But today, the only phone number I remember is mine.
We gain a lot with technology but we also lose some things if we aren’t aware of how we use it.
But…
What I would never do is ask someone how you know the sum of 2-digit figures without a calculator, or how you know the address of your house without using Google Maps, or how you remember your wife's phone number without looking at your contacts, nor how you can write an email without asking GPT chat.
I also wouldn't be surprised if in the future some AI comes out that communicates between seller and buyer, and finalizes the deal for you. And then, let's ask ourselves with signs (because we won't know how to speak) how that person can speak.
Said that…
If you are an exporter, importer, trader or broker in international trade, or any other business, communicate with your clients and suppliers. Write to them an email or many, and if you have time, talk to them. But do it without the help of a GPT chat, be yourself communicating. The magic of relationships happens when things are natural and personal.
And so that you have a long list of contacts, use the exporter reports and importer reports that the asktoMia team has prepared and segmented by product and HS code chapter.
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