The AI Genie is Out of the Bottle...
...and there is no putting it back in.
There is no putting the AI genie back in the bottle. Let's stop discussing irrelevant matters and embrace the technology with all its potential.
Sure, ChatGPT can give you wrong answers. If you are lazy and want to dump your work on the AI, that can seriously affect your results.
However, if you look at such tools as the assistants they can be, they provide enormous productivity gains.
For years, people have told you how AI will destroy society, that it is too dangerous to be developed, etc.
Well, I must tell you that that genie is out of the bottle now, and there is absolutely no way to put it back into the bottle. If you don't want to develop it, someone else will. If you don't use it, rest assured that someone with no such qualms will take away your job in the not-too-distant future.
While some people are busy explaining why ChatGPT is not AI or why having something that can create remarkable images is not AI can involve you in copyright issues, you should be learning what these tools can do for you, your productivity, and your life.
If you know how to use them, these tools will bring you no more risk than hiring out work to another human being. They can, however, empower you to do three hours of work in thirty minutes or even do work you would never be able to do without them.
For example, I created this post's top illustration using Midjourney, a generative AI service that transforms text instructions into beautiful images. While I am pretty adept at using Affinity Designer, my image creation and editing tool of choice, I would never be able to draw this illustration.
After using Midjourney for many months, I learned how to best direct it toward the results I wanted, and was thus able to create this post's illustration in just about twenty minutes. Even if I was a great artist, the chances of making an image such as this in such a timeframe are slim. But even as a newbie, I could create incredible images in just a few minutes.
While it is fun to ask ChatGPT questions and expect it to give you a perfect answer in seconds, that is not the best use of the tool. If you don't give it the option of "creating" your content, you are far less likely to have to redo the work yourself because the tool "invented" the answers to your question.
It would be best if you were using tools such as ChatGPT to get your ideas in shape for sharing, not asking it to create ideas worth sharing. That is always the approach I take when working with these tools. Organize your thoughts and condense them. Then, ask the AI tool to shape your core idea into your desired format. You can actually ask it to create different versions of your original ideas that are ideally suited for each medium in which you intend to publish them. This use alone can shave hours of work from your day. You can derive a newsletter post, an Instagram story, a LinkedIn or X post, and so on from just two or three paragraphs.
Learn how to make the most of the myriad AI tools out there. Keep up with what is happening and what can be helpful to you. Discover how you can achieve more in less time and have more availability to do what is more meaningful to you.