The LORD will send rain at the proper time from his rich treasury in the heavens and will bless all the work you do. You will lend to many nations, but you will never need to borrow from them ~ Deuteronomy 28:12
I am sitting here with ideas in my head, asking myself: Will they work? I am tempted to run them on an AI/LLM to see whether or not they’re feasible. However, I recently learned that, just like a Google search, AI feeds on your intent. It will always side with whichever direction you want to go, much like a political party with no opposing party. In all companies that use AI, or are claiming to use AI, they forget the most important thing: your customers are, after all, humans. They can “AI-lize” (my own word, meaning to coat everything with AI) everything, but some elements of the customer sales journey will always need a human touch. Unless you are an AI-first company, you should be careful about how you incorporate AI into your business.
I have learned how to slow time. I learned this a long time ago, but now it has taken a new form. Time is slowed by being present in all its moments. Reading a book is one way to slow time. Lately, with AI, no one wants to read; we just want summaries because some of the content we’re supposed to read is produced by AI. A personal conflict I have with AI is when someone responds in a generic manner; I smell AI in their response. While we are encouraged to use AI to help with our writing and other things, there is that feeling of humanity lost. I am looking towards AI-proof skills. I remember seeing an ad by a construction company asking ChatGPT to finish a building; it was so hilarious! This ties in with what one of the guests on the “Diary Of A CEO” podcast stated: we should go into plumbing because AI cannot do that. Now I am interested in plumbing and electrical; these two skills are really what we need to survive these days.
Before I continue ranting about my thoughts, I just wanted to capture the essence of what I am feeling. Consumption is infinite, while production is finite. Thus, we must increase the latter to great extremes. We’ve got to not lose the human touch in our lives; we have to work. I am not saying we must be against AI. All I am saying is that we must not lose our craft to AI by second-guessing ourselves in producing any artifacts to be received by another human, such as emails, text responses, and many more things we need to apply our minds to.
