How Do You Use AI?
Most people use artificial intelligence chatbots like ChatGPT as a search engine.
Some people use it to write blog posts or customer emails.
Some use it for analysis.
But the “power” in using AI is to assign it a role to do the analysis, like “evaluate this as an executive or hiring manager of XYZ company”.
My son-in-law, Eric Niday, uses AI for all of the above. Talking with him about his experiences with it was interesting, so I decided to have him on and share it with you.
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My mentor, Jason Thomas of Regeneration Nation CR, who was on Ep. 138, uses AI as an executive assistant. He recently used Claude.AI to help him organize a major proposal with >50 documents. He also uses it to review Zoom call transcripts and summarize the points.
I have heard of people using AI in the interviewing process. As an applicant: upload the company financials or mission statement and ask AI to summarize it. Upload the backgrounds of the people who will be interviewing you (from LinkedIn) and, combining that with the company mission statements, ask AI to suggest the kinds of questions that they may ask.
Eric uses it to evaluate candidates against the job description and what he is looking for. I think this is where you, as an applicant, can be burned. HR is already using AI to look at keywords in resumes and rejecting people who don’t have those keywords or don’t have a resume specifically tailored to the position.
How I use AI
I do not use AI very much. It is locked down at work, because it is a security and data risk.
In Thriving the Future and my other gigs, I use Claude.AI to make suggestions on how to improve client emails. I do not use it to write blog posts, web content, or podcast episode content, although I know people who do use it for web content.
We will increasingly see the majority of websites will be clickbait AI generated content. It seems like many of the articles showing up on the MSN-generated home page in MS Edge browser are useless clickbait AI generated content.
I prefer Claude.AI, which allows grouping “chats” into projects, and keeps the info between sessions, even on the free version, which ChatGPT does not do. Claude.AI also better explains the “why” it made those suggested changes. And it seems to maintain my “voice” rather than ChatGPT, which I find to have an obviously fake, evocative, feminine voice.
How far is too far?
Eric uses ChatGPT to research and debate theology. He made a chat bot theologian, instructed it with which theologians that he liked, so he could ask it questions. He even made it so it would “counsel” him. The chat bot even offered to “pray” for him (!). Um, that may be going too far.
It is also disturbing that ChatGPT has some fuzzy logic built it where it will jump to conclusions or purposely be wrong. Early versions even made stuff up, or created fake references.
I do not use AI for graphics. I find that AI graphics have a weird “sheen” to them and they are weirdly attractive. Not surprising, since as we discussed on previous episodes, Cyprian suggests that they are imbued with something, and points out that even early programming and server processes were even called “daemons”.
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