I am both reluctant and excited to write this post.
I am reluctant, as I fear I may be showing my age (or at the very least giving you a good guess as to my vintage); and excited because I’ve finally learnt something that I think will revolutionise the way I work for the better. Earlier this week I attended the AirTime conference where I sat in on a session about AI.
Before I continue I must disclose, this is not new information, this topic has been spoken about extensively for the past couple of years… it is just I have been hesitant, even a little frightened to get on board (again I show my age). Reasons for my hesitation, thoughts we’ve all had at one time or another… ‘are the robots taking over the world?’, ‘is using AI cheating?’ and perhaps the thought of being made ‘redundant by a piece of hardware’ the most frightening of all. There may also have been a tinge of stubbornness, ‘I’m smarter than the AI, I don’t need it’ or at least that is what I wanted to believe.
Don’t get me wrong, I’ve tried AI before but I didn’t get mind blowing results. An outcome that only fueled my stance on not embracing the tech. However, learnings from the AirTime conference inspired me to give AI another go. The results? Life altering! A task that would normally take anywhere from 30 to 120 minutes, completed in under 2 minutes… probably less!
Again, I would like to reiterate, my mind has been blown. I am now an AI convert, I will use it wherever and whenever I can. Not because the AI is smarter than me, not because I want to prove that I am not a dinosaur (well maybe a little bit), but rather because my time is precious and I’ve just learnt a way to regain some of it back, along with a little bit of my sanity too.
For those of you who are curious (and I know that you are), you can access what AI wrote here. Just remember that the ‘girl in the green jacket’ was the one that fed it with the content and the promps in the first place.