Can AI Really Automate 57 Percent of Work?

Today on the AI Daily Brief, can AI really do 57% of all work? Before that in the headlines, just in time for Black Friday, ChatCBT introduces shopping research. The AI Daily Brief is a daily podcast and video about the most important news and discussions in AI. Alright, friends. Quick announcements before we dive in. First of all, thank you to today's sponsors, KPMG, Robo, robots and pencils in Blitsy. To get an ad free version of the show, go to patreon.com/aidailybrief, or you can subscribe on Apple Podcasts. To learn about sponsoring the show and lock in your rates before they go up for the new year, send us a note at sponsors@aidailybrief.ai. Lastly, due to a number of requests, we're keeping the AI ROI benchmarking study open for just a couple more days. If you are interested in getting the full report, go contribute a handful of use cases, and you will get it when it's out in a couple of weeks. But with that, let's dive in. Welcome back to the AI daily brief headlines edition. All the daily AI news you need in around five minutes. As we head into the holiday season, will you be using ChatGPT as your personal shopper? That's basically the pitch for OpenAI's new shopping research feature, but this is a lot more advanced or in-depth than you might imagine. On the one hand, it does the basic stuff you would imagine like comparing items and prices to help users find the best fit, but it's really a much more involved step by step deep research for shopping sort of process. One of the things that OpenAI noticed was that a ton of people use ChatGPT as a way to, in their words, find, understand, and compare products. Sometimes that's about just finding what their options are. Sometimes that's about fitting the options to their needs or preferences. And rather than just showing some shopping related results when people are searching for those things, shopping research is an entire experience purpose built for that sort of discovery. Indeed, they make it clear that this is not necessarily just for your everyday simple stuff. They write, for simple shopping questions like checking a price or confirming a feature, a regular chat g p t response is quick and all you need. But when you want depth, comparisons, constraints, trade offs, shopping research takes a few minutes to give you a more detailed well researched answer. So once you get into the experience, which you can automatically select or which can be recommended to you, after you're prompted, it's going to give you a set of follow-up questions. Some of those might be about price. Some of those might be around preference. Some of those might be around the way that you're using it. Some of those will be around distinct features. And after doing a first round of initial thinking, the experience might then ask you to look at a set …