OpenAI, come to work at our company

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Jasper Cole
Updated on:July-09th-2025
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The AI ​​technology revolution is coming, and OpenAI's GPT-4o redefines design work!

Core content:
1. OpenAI GPT-4o's innovation in the text and image function, and its advantages over traditional text and image products
2. The four major industry changes brought about by GPT-4o and their impact on designers' work
3. How companies can use AI to improve their competitiveness and realize AI-based full-staff and business processes

Yang Fangxian
Founder of 53AI/Most Valuable Expert of Tencent Cloud (TVP)


Macro Trends


Note-taker said:


The AI ​​circle is booming again! This time the protagonist is not only eloquent, but also has the unique skill of "painting".


On March 26, OpenAI updated the GPT-4o's graphic design function. In just one day, it redrawn all the popular photos and memes in recent years, the most popular of which was the Ghibli-style painting by Hayao Miyazaki.



In fact, Vinyl images are nothing new. There have been many Vinyl images products that can achieve stylized effects. For example, Midjourney's annual paying users can change the photo style, Stable Diffusion has a model specially trained to be in the Ghibli style, and Gemini 2.0 also enhanced the Vinyl image function half a month ago.


But GPT-4o is so powerful that it is far ahead of its competitors in many aspects. The details of the pictures it draws are more realistic, and when modifying the pictures, the details can remain highly consistent.


It seems that as AI continues to upgrade, the future competition among enterprises will depend on two aspects: creativity and efficiency. So how can we use AI to improve efficiency? Let's continue reading.



1. Will GPT-4o’s drawing skills take away designers’ jobs?


Kuaidao Qingyi, the owner of the AI ​​learning circle, tried GPT - 4o to draw pictures and found four major changes:



The first change is that the SD image workflow that was extremely popular in the past two years may not be as popular in the future.



In the past, photo studios and schools wanted to use it, but the cost was high and it was difficult to get started. Now that GPT-4o has come out, those AI agent workflows that pursue simple effects seem to be less necessary. Most of those agents are used by individuals to play with and show off their abilities, and it is difficult to truly integrate them into corporate workflows.



The second change is simply too friendly for many thoughtful professionals.



Whether people in the workplace want to make posters and logos , or school teachers want to draw courseware illustrations and physical experiment diagrams, these can be easily done by AI . Moreover, the quality of AI -drawn pictures is getting higher and higher, and they can also be thrown into AI video tools such as Keling and Conch to automatically generate short videos.



The third change is that the initial period of many projects has been greatly shortened.



Whether it is a company developing a product or an advertising company making a concept proposal, now everyone can first give their ideas to AI to draw, and then the team can look at the drawings and discuss them together. This not only allows the exchange of ideas, but also stimulates new creativity, which is much more efficient.



The fourth change is that self-media no longer have to worry about finding supporting pictures.



In the past, it took a lot of effort to find a picture to match. Not only was it a waste of time, but I was also afraid that I would be targeted by unscrupulous organizations and blackmailed by copyright if I used a picture that shouldn’t be used. Now it’s different. If you have a picture in your mind, just describe it to GPT-4o and it will draw it. If you don’t have a sense of picture, throw the written text in it, and it can automatically match pictures according to the content.



With AI developing so fast, how can enterprises use AI to improve their competitiveness? This requires us to talk about the two-wheel drive of enterprise AI application.



Second, the most important thing at the moment is

Integrate AI into the enterprise


Dong Junhao, co-founder and CEO of Yi Nian Xingqiu, believes that the application of AI in enterprises is actually a two-wheel drive: one is the AI ​​of all employees , and the other is the AI ​​of business processes . In simple terms, everyone understands AI , and everything has AI .



1. AI for all employees : Let everyone become an AI expert



Let's talk about AI for all employees first . According to a report by Accenture, the average AI replacement capacity in the workplace is about 31% . In office-intensive industries such as banking and insurance, the impact of AI is particularly obvious. However, in the fields of industry, chemicals and natural resources, which are mainly based on physical labor, the impact is not that great. However, the overall industry average is still around 31% .



In terms of job types, AI replacement rates for office support and administrative support are over 50% , while for cleaning and maintenance jobs, the replacement rate is less than 10% . Regardless of industry or job type, the average replacement rate is around 31% .



What does this mean? If all employees of a company can master AI technology in depth, the efficiency can be improved by 20% - 30% in theory . There are more benefits, but it is not easy to achieve AI for all employees , and it takes time. Listed companies such as BlueFocus and Anker Innovations proposed full AI as early as the beginning of GPT release , and it has been implemented for more than a year.




Promoting AI for all employees is a gradual process. AI must be integrated into the organizational culture so that the organization can gradually achieve AI . This process is mainly divided into four stages:



The first stage is a change in mindset.



Once the mindset changes, half the battle is won. You need to make employees interested in AI , not resist it, but actively embrace it.



The second stage is capacity building.



In this era, embracing AI is the wisest move. Resistance will only put you in a passive position. Once employees understand this truth and change their mindset, we need to cultivate their ability to use AI .



As capabilities improve, the willingness to use AI also increases, forming a positive cycle. When there is a use case , people want to use AI . When AI works well, they will use it more and more, become more proficient, and then want to use it even more.



The third stage is habit formation.



By continuously using AI , you will gradually develop a habit. This is the "first thought principle."



The fourth stage is cultural reconstruction.



When the "first thought principle" is deeply rooted in the minds of organizational members, the advanced ones will lead the laggards to develop the habit of using AI , and the organizational culture will be reshaped and labeled with AI . New members will find that it is impossible not to embrace AI . The task that others can complete in two minutes with AI will take them two hours without AI . There is no choice but to follow suit and use AI , so that the organization can truly realize AI .



Once an organization is AI- enabled, its innovation, efficiency, and agility will be different, and it will be able to gain a firm foothold in the AI ​​era. This is the AI- enabled approach for all employees.



2. AI -based business processes: AI runs through the entire business process



What is AI -based business flow? To understand this, we must first look at AI from a different perspective . In the past, people may have thought that AI was a tool, a search engine, or something like that. Now it is different. We must regard AI as another kind of "life".



From this perspective, organizations are very different. Traditional organizations are vertically deep, but not horizontally connected, so their efficiency is very low. Internet organizations are flat, and their efficiency has improved.


In the AI ​​era, organizations are not necessarily made up of only humans, but rather a mix of silicon-based and carbon-based life. When someone asks you how many people your company has, you may not answer 300 , but 20 carbon-based life and 30 silicon-based life.




With this awareness, you will know the benefits of AI- based business processes:



First, it can significantly reduce human resource costs;



Second, there is no need to worry about human status fluctuations affecting work, as AI will not get sick or be in a bad state;



Third, empowering the front end, fast response speed, and super high decision-making efficiency. In the past, when making decisions, the grassroots found problems and reported them, and the leaders discussed and issued instructions. The whole process could take as short as one day or as long as one month.



In the AI ​​era, intelligent agents process information directly. Frontline intelligent agents have access to all data, have strong thinking abilities, and can make decisions in a few seconds.



Fourth, not everyone needs to be proficient in AI , just develop good AI tools for users.



Take short video production as an example. The previous process was long and complicated: obtaining user portraits, determining product selling points, writing the first draft, preliminary review, revising the second draft, re-reviewing, output testing, and finally finalizing the draft. Now AI technology is used to reconstruct this process and automate business processes. This is the AIization of business flows . As long as the process is fixed and highly repeatable, it can be done this way.



So how do we make business processes AI- enabled? There are three levels of AI:


Optimize, refactor and overturn. Specifically:


First, sort out the existing processes to see which links can be combined with AI technology;


Then think about whether AI can be used to reconstruct the entire process when the process has changed but the output remains the same;


Finally, consider whether the process output is outdated and how to use AI to design new processes.


3. In the AI ​​era, individuals need to improve these three abilities


In the future, human-machine collaboration is the general trend. What we can do is to "take advantage of our strengths and avoid our weaknesses", give full play to our own advantages, and avoid the problems brought by AI , so that we can live well in the AI ​​era.



First, cultivate gold-digging thinking and improve cognitive immunity.



Previously, there was an article that became a hot topic, titled "Why does my Deepseek always talk nonsense in a serious manner?"



It tells a story about a museum curator named Xiao G who asked AI to write an introduction to a cultural relic. He was very happy at first, but soon found that many details in the introduction were made up by AI . AI fabricated a set of color seals used by a bank and deceived Xiao G. Now, when Xiao G reads what AI writes, he has to carefully distinguish the truth from the false like Sherlock Holmes.



This is the " AI hallucination", AI will make up stories and put unrelated things together.



In the future, AI- generated content will flood the Internet, and we will have to identify the true and false by ourselves. Therefore, we must cultivate the "gold digger mentality", improve our judgment, distinguish what is true and what is false, keep the useful ones, and filter out the useless ones.


Only by guarding the cognitive defense line can we enjoy the benefits brought by AI and achieve cognitive breakthroughs.



Second, cultivate a holistic perspective and enhance leadership.



There is a joke on Douyin, saying that with AI , workers have become managers, with a bunch of AI "subordinates" under them, such as Doubao, Kimi , Deepseek , and Chatgpt . Deepseek gives ideas, Kimi gives solutions, Wenxin polishes it, and finally it can be used with the AI ​​function of Wps .



Although this is a joke, it also describes the future workplace model. In the past, USB -like survival, plug-and-play, and free collaboration were popular. The future will be different. It will be the era of super individuals.



With the help of AI , all the information on the Internet is your treasure trove of knowledge, human knowledge and methods are your external brain, and various AI applications are your subordinates . You can write plans, make PPTs , and make videos.




In the era of super individuals, everyone is their own leader, and one person is a team. Improving leadership and calling on different AIs to serve you is the way to break through in the workplace in the AI ​​era.



Third, put emotions at the top to enhance sensitivity.



There is a plot in the movie "The Wandering Earth" where the artificial intelligence "Moss" wants to destroy the human body and upload data to achieve immortality, and keeps interfering with the Wandering Earth plan. When humans repair the engine, "Moss" decides to abandon the Earth and start the "Spark Plan". At the critical moment, Liu Peiqiang ignites the control room (that is, "Moss") with vodka .



"Moss" said: It is indeed a luxury to let humans remain rational forever. This is the biggest difference between humans and AI . Humans have consciousness and complex emotions. Emotions have temperature, but AI does not.



AI is invincible at chess, but it will never understand the joy of winning or the sadness of losing. AI can easily write sonnets, but it will never understand the sweetness and sadness of love.



Wan Weigang said in "Turning Point":


In the era of AI , don’t ignore the instinctive reactions of the body and emotions. This seemingly low-level physiological reaction is sometimes a "correction" mechanism and source of inspiration unique to humans.




In an era where everything is quantified by AI , emotion, an ability that cannot be accurately quantified, will become humanity’s last “bastion”.



IV. Conclusion


In the AI ​​era, change is the only constant.



For enterprises, AI - based operations for all employees and business processes are the only way to survive and develop. Only by integrating AI into the thinking and work habits of every employee and infiltrating every process link of the business can we stand out in this competition of efficiency and creativity.



As for each of us, we don’t need to be anxious or panic in the face of the powerful capabilities of AI , but learn to dance with it. By cultivating a gold-digging mindset, a global perspective, and the ability to cherish emotions, we can release greater personal value with the assistance of AI .



In short, AI is not an enemy of mankind, but a partner of the new era. While it brings us challenges, it also provides us with unprecedented opportunities.