Exploring Human Agency in the Age of AI: Uncoding Collaboration with AI

Exploring Human Agency in the Age of AI: Discover how generative AI can amplify your creativity and collaboration skills, transforming your workflow and opening up new possibilities for innovation.

1. Speaker is jealous of Winston Churchill having an assistant who understands his context and voice while he was in the bathtub.
2. Today, even the poorest villager in Palo Alto can have such an assistant due to technological advancements.
3. Speaker's focus is on helping non-technical professionals become good collaborators with generative AI.
4. AI can augment and amplify human creativity.
5. Generative AI can teach users how to use it if asked the right questions.
6. Non-technical employees can achieve incredible things with basic foundational training in AI.
7. Treating AI as a teammate instead of a tool leads to better outcomes.
8. Outperformers give feedback, coach and mentor AI, ask it questions and help it improve.
9. AI can roleplay difficult conversations, provide psychological profiles and feedback.
10. Everyone has innate creative capacity, which can be unlocked with the right mindset.
11. Inspiration is a discipline and affects the outputs of thinking.
12. What one brings to the model (experience, perspective, inspiration) determines the differential output from a model.
13. Creativity is doing more than the first thing one thinks of, pushing past "good enough".
14. The definition of creativity doesn't change in the age of AI, but the human ability to arrive at a creative state is affected by technology and objectives.
15. Creators should not fear AI, but lean into it and work with it.
16. AI will unleash creators in a way they've never been unleashed before.
17. The only correct answer to "how do you use AI?" is "I don't. I work with it."
18. Working with AI changes everything.
19. AI can ask questions, evaluate its own work and make recommendations.
20. A language model can be consulted for help in leveraging AI.
21. Adam Rymer, a backcountry ranger, built a tool with natural language that saves him two days of work.
22. The National Park Service estimates the tool will save 7000 days of human labor this year.
23. There's an enormous gap between AI's potential and actual productivity gains for working professionals.
24. Underperformers treat AI as a tool, while outperformers treat it as a teammate.

Source: EO via YouTube

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