<aside> 💡 ICYMI, this is my state-of-the-union-style thoughts on AI. Yes, it’s a compilation of 3 YouTube videos. It’s good, I promise. Give it a watch, or skim what's below—we'll dig into it more during the next few lessons.
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Don’t get the ick. You’re already using AI. If you have ever …
… hit “play” on a Spotify Discover Weekly custom-made playlist
… clicked “accept” on a next line or word generated from Google in Gmail
… enjoyed Grammarly’s writing or spell check assistance
… then yeah. You’re using artificial intelligence.
AI tools use a process called natural language processing (NLP) to generate responses to prompts (whether you wrote ‘em or some engineer at Spotify wrote ‘em). Specifically, ChatGPT and Bard use a neural network trained on a large corpus of text data to generate responses.
Curious about how neural network training works to generate responses? Listen in to minutes 00:00-00:00 above. Feel free to skip if that stuff bores you. 😎
Have you ever seen those TikToker DJs that spin mashups you’d never DREAM to combine? Like, TK & TK. Or TK layered with TK.
I bet when turn tables came out & DJs hit the scene, an old-school musician or two stomped their feet. “BUT IT’S NOT ART,” they probably cried.
But the truly creative DJs iterated on technology. They used to the tool to build art.
I believe we can do something similar with AI as small business owners.
Think about a chef using his sharp knife to plate beautiful food … AI is a knife, you’re the chef. The knife is only as good as the chef.
<aside> 💡 AI bots are only as good as the inputs. It’s like Tay Swift sang, “play stupid games, win stupid prizes.” If you put in trash, you’ll get out trash.
Read up on how to drive ChatGPT like the Lamborghini it is with your prompts here.
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