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Don't merely be an AI Voyeur
Launch Key #019
Rob Norris
January 30, 2024 • Estimated Reading Time: 6 minutes
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Have you experimented with AI, or are you merely a voyeur?
Despite ChatGPT gaining more than 150 million users in 2023, less than 20% of US adults have tried it - or anything like it - according to a Pew Research Center report.
As with any new technology its always good practice to have a healthy skepticism.
AI won’t solve the world’s problems. Or take your job… yet.
A recent study funded by the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab used online surveys to collect data on about 1,000 visually-assisted tasks across 800 occupations.
Results: Only 3% of such tasks can be automated cost-effectively today, but that could rise to 40% by 2030 if data costs fall and accuracy improves.
So with that out of the way, what personal AI use cases can you test immediately?
The easiest answer is content stuff.
It is great as an advanced search tool. Generative AI tools can quickly sift through information from many different sources. Aim it at help files or any large pdf.
AI tools can summarize meeting notes, highlight key takeaways, and generate action items. Reminder - it doesn’t have your rationale so the notes won’t generalize or make leaps to connect ideas.
Summarize longer documents. This can be used for things like highlighting key insights from research papers, summarizing reports, or identifying key findings from spreadsheet data.
Natural language prompts can generate stories, blog ideas, LinkedIn posts, music, images, recipes, travel guides, lesson plans, or surveys in seconds. Most times my writing is better, but I have expounded on ideas generated by Jasper.
Editing and enhancing your writing. My experiments have also had mixed reviews here. The editing has been too flashy for my style.
Translating to another language. Again caution as the English generated is sometimes rote, it probably goes the other way as well.
Your mileage may vary, but I’ve not found a way to create authentic written work for any of my uses. I have refined ideas from AI generated lists.
I do find search and summaries are very good.
And image creation can be outstanding.
Browse MidJourney’s latest community examples to get a taste of how fantastic visual AI can be. And don’t believe those are pretty ‘girls’ who follow you on X. ;-)
Software and applications are embedding more AI into their suites. Chatbots are low hanging fruit. As are editing tools and image creation.
Grammarly works inside of Google docs.
You see “Rewrite with AI” option as you create LinkedIn posts.
Microsoft has been deploying the Copilot generative AI (genAI) assistant across its Microsoft 365 suite.
Salesforce and Workday, both have generative AI strategies.
Take a hint from corporations to see where the puck is going.
Deloitte surveyed 2,620 global business leaders, across 13 countries, as part of its Fueling the AI Transformation report. The survey identified the most prominent uses of AI for a variety of verticals, ranging from financial to government and public services.
AI is being implemented across industries to optimize processes and improve customer experiences.
Real world examples demonstrate tangible benefits of successful AI implementations leading to improved outcomes with reduced costs.
Like previous technological advances that we all have adapted for our own use, great AI outcomes will show some improved efficiency.
From hyper-linked information and wifi to smart phones, e-commerce and video streaming, we’ve added tools that we think improved our own outcomes.
But we didn’t accept any of those by just reading the headlines.
Now go launch something 🚀
20 years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails.
Modern Tools
Do you have a book idea started and tucked away somewhere?
AI tools might help sort that.
Quiet Quill is relatively new, but aims to help outline, draft and write non-fiction books. Say good-bye to the writer's block.
Old School Wisdom
Impressive recent breakthroughs in generative AI, smart robots, and driverless cars are again leading many to worry that advanced technologies will replace human workers and decrease the overall demand for labor.
Over the past 100 years, technological advances have created more jobs overall.
Free Knowledge
AI newsletters had exponential growth in 2023.
And most of them have already crashed back to Earth for lack of quality content.
Zain Kahn does an excellent job in Superhuman delivering in depth info on AI tools and real life use cases in each newsletter.
Small business owners will sell more than 10 million businesses before 2029, and the majority have no transition plan. One of those could jump start your entrepreneurial dream.
Visual Crapshoot
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