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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing how businesses operate, streamlining tasks, and automating processes to increase efficiency. In the latest episode of the Building Better Developers podcast, hosts Rob Broadhead and Michael Meloche dive into the practical applications of Leveraging AI for business, exploring how it can enhance productivity and decision-making.
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*Challenge for Listeners*
Rob and Michael encourage listeners to experiment with leveraging AI for business workflows. They challenge businesses to take an existing task, such as responding to customer emails, and use AI to enhance efficiency. By leveraging AI, businesses can save time, improve productivity, and focus on innovation.
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[Music] all righty then uh and let's just Dive Right into AI uh because I may have people they're like wanting to Stage more room so I'm just hoping that they're not like piling in here as we're wrapping this one or at least that it doesn't interrupt us too much so we will go with our three two I'm G to click this little guy because that's annoying to me one well hello and welcome back we are continuing our episodes our season our series building better developers we are building businesses this time around and this episode I alluded to it in the bonus material this episode we're going to talk about Ai and we've we talked last episode about uh processes and procedures and templates and now we're going to like take it that next step and like how do you take Ai and make use of it because everybody's heard of it these days almost everybody can spell it so let's dive into that for this episode but first I want to introduce myself my name is Rob Broadhead I one of the founders of develop andur also a founder of RB Consulting where we are what they refer to as like Boutique Consulting we're not desktop support we're not like just generalists we actually sit down with you understand your business help you craft a plan for technology through simplification automation integration Innovation we help you figure out what is the best route for you and the best way for you to use technology to they get that technology sprawl maybe that you have if you've been trying to work on this for years or to give you like a really good road map moving forward if you're just starting out say how do I how do I leverage technology not only today but 6 months and six years from now and doing so in a CA situation where you're not like every year having to say okay we got to like throw everything out we got to rebuild everything we didn't build anything that can grow so now we've got a you know it's like having a house and you have a kid every year and then next year like buy a new house build a new house build a new house that's sort of how your business may be because you're you grow sometimes very quickly and we want to help you build a solution that grows with you good things and bad things oh this just like two sides of the same not really two sides the same coin but it's the same thing in a sense because the good thing is we finally managed to get out have a little bit of time and just went and saw a movie last night went and saw the latest uh Captain America movie which was good it's like haven't sat down and seen a mo a Marvel theater movie in I don't know how long it's been a while so it was a fun time the bad side is it could have been more fun because they didn't have heat on in there so we sit down and like two minutes I'm normally cold doesn't bother me I'm not very far into the movie where I'm like taking my coat off and wrapping it around my legs because my legs are freezing and I got jeans on so it's not like I'm sitting there in shorts or anything but it was cold and it was like this is like odd little like we're going to go down a rabbit a hole little bit here on this one it's like one of these odd things it was it was cold and I had my coat on all that kind of stuff but the thing that was driving me nuts is my nose was so freaking cold it was like when you're snow skin and you got like your goggles you got your M but only your little noses there and it's like I could not figure out how to like warm my no I wanted to just dip my nose into like a cup of hot soup or something like that it was just one of those odd little things so I probably over shared but that's okay because I'm G to pass it on to somebody who may even do the same Michael go ahead and introduce yourself hey everyone my name is Michael M I'm one of the co-founders of developing n billing better developers I'm also the founder of Envision QA where we do very similar things Rob's company does but we take the approach of essentially the test perspective from the user stories we walk you through your company as your user we understand how your software is supposed to work or how your processes work and then we make sure that the software you have really is doing what your business needs it to do if not we can help you customize and create your own software or we can help you find the right tools to essentially grow your business and streamline your processes good bad this week uh good I really knuckled down I got heads down uh with one of the projects I'm working on spent a great deal of time going through data and figuring out processes as I said and the bad side to that is I maybe get to spend about 10 hours with my wife this week so uh little too much work but got a lot done but a little less time with family uh just because I was so heads down and trying to get things moving forward so for those of you that work a lot do try to make time for your family because they are important to us that is that is one of the things you gotta like we got a lot going on you got to make sure that you're keeping track of that because you want that Personal Touch you don't want like the cold kind of Technology thing that AI might give you so that's we'll say that's a good little segue into I want to talk about this time is AI and really leveraging AI for tasks particularly like let's there's a lot there's a lot of ways you can go with it I really want to keep us sort of focused on processes procedures and templates because that was the last episode and this is sort of like the next step maybe or maybe it's part of that step uh for example last episode we talked about the challenge being like pick a process and create a template or or like refine that process you find a way to just do that a little better to make a little bit of improvement now ai is a way to do this now it's you may not think of it but one of the nice things about AI at this point is I'm going to go actually I'm going to go with two things so one of the nice things is two things so if you're keeping track maybe I don't do math good sometimes um one is the the repetitive types of stuff the templates that are out there it used to be that you had to like you know get a book or you know you had to pay like a consultant or a company or something like that to provide you with a template that was pretty useful now a lot of times AI can get you there very quickly if you say write me uh you know I need a template for an email for responding to a customer request for you know a refund or something like that or uh I need to I like give me a template for building an email that is just a cold call approach to talking to somebody you will get information back and you can actually work with AI a little bit and do some refinements and get something that is very specific useful and what you want you know what really like makes you you and of course as long as you're there you you can put your personal touch into it so you can let AI get you you know 8020 rule get you 80% of the way there and then you go back and you can say hey i' like I want to tweak this I want to add this I want to adjust that I'm thinking about this and like that's one of things I think I'm going to go back and look at like maybe my elevator pitch and some of that kind of stuff let's talk about um but that's where AI can help you out is it's then this is where the part two of it is is it can give you another voice another opinion on whatever it is you're doing so even if you're sitting there in a meeting room with 15 people discussing options for your business and how you want to go you could throw something into Ai and now you have plus one more and depending on how you utilize AI sometimes you can feed it information that is going to help it have that opinion based on a certain point of view so like some people early on were like saying hey give me write me a you know I'm going to take the day off email for my boss but I want it in the tone of a pirate or something like that and it's like it'll give you st that or you know take this and then put it in the tone of that or pretend like it's coming from you know do take this email and make it like how would Bart Simpson write it or something like that what we can do is take some of those those same kind of things is have those conversations ask those questions and say hey based on like this book or this chunk of code or this thing or that thing based on this context tell me what I would expect to get from you know what would I get expect to get back if I put it in this context because sometimes that gives you not only another opinion but a very focused and maybe even very educated other opinion doesn't mean it's right but it does give you that idea of like hey I can get I can generate something very quickly that otherwise might take me a lot of research there's a lot you can do there that will help you take some of these regular processes and procedures and either get started you know give you a really good template if you can't find a template or help you refine the one you have because you can take your template and say hey I don't find like I don't find this converting how would I write you for example like how would I take this web page and make it convert customers better something like that and you're going to get ideas they may not be great it's like the you know the art all the art AI we've seen where this guy like people have 15 different hands or something like that but if you take that it can maybe there's going to be maybe some thoughts or some ideas or some some gems are going to be buried in there you're like oh I didn't think about that I'm going to take that and apply that into my my content or whatever my processes so right now I'm G an example I'm not going to send it to an AI I'm gonna give it to Michael and he's going to give you his thoughts on this thanks Rob so first thing I'll give you a slight disclaimer with AI if don't put anything in the AI that is proprietary uh that if you're like medical don't put in patient information because anything you put into a any AI tool they own and you want to make sure that you protect your intellectual rights your copyrights things of that nature so you do want to be a little cautious with what you put in AI however with that being said there is a lot we can do with AI for instance if you have like a podcast you can take the transcript from the podcast feed it into Ai and have it summarize some bullet points and then you can quickly write your blog on that I am guilty uh the other things you can do is you could also for sad blog say hey help me write some social media posts on different platforms now a little caveat with that you do have to train it a little bit to get your feedback like Rob said you kind of want to maybe ask it for your different audiences or that you're trying to talk to so one of the cool features you can do with AI is say hey write me that social media post but then add a small caveat and say hey write me this post for these platforms but Target the particular uh audiences of those platforms and you actually will get a different response for each platform now it may not be exactly what you want but it is going to give you a much better starting point than starting from scratch so typically that takes you less than 30 seconds to type that into AI you get the content and you may spend another 15 minutes uh tweaking it and then you can post it the best part is that saves you probably an hour from going out to every single social media site try to write something out there or writing one message copy and pasting it to multiple platforms which then you kind of get stale because then they're either going to follow you on one not on the other and you might not be hitting the right audiences on different social media platforms uh some the other things with AI which is really cool uh we kind of talked about this I think in the pre-show last time uh was if you are working on your business or you're building your business and you don't have all the employees you need some of the things you need to get started yes branding but you also need some of that HR and Internal Documentation that you need you can use AI to say hey build me a business plan or oh hey go build me a employee manual or a CO of contact conduct you can then take that and refine it for your business instead of you having to go hire someone to spend a lot of time to build this if you don't have the cash up front or the time you can use the AI to get you something there quickly may not be perfect but it's enough to get you kind of the groundwork to get your business going uh and to make sure that you're covered in certain areas and lastly uh the thing that uh I like you talked about um you know giving you another voice it's actually funny depending upon the AI tool you use so don't just stick with one sometimes it's better off going to different AI channels is if you want a conversation like hey I want a to write an article to talk about this particular topic but I am addressing or like say I'm talking to a room of high school students college kids adults businesses you can Target Ai and ask them hey do this or how would you respond to this the thing is do that in multiple AI chats repeat the process a couple of times because different AI Bots are trained differently and you're going to get different responses some are better than others some are great at writing code some suck at writing code uh some are really good at writing sonets and others are really good at writing business documents so you just have to make sure you're using the write tool so if you're writing or if you're using Ai and you're typing in something but you're not quite getting what you want try another AI tool you might get a different response that is more in line with what you're looking for but before you just go with that one I would take this uh take the response from the one that works and say copy that paste it into the one that didn't quite work and say okay this is kind of what I'm looking for can you duplicate it and sometimes just the different wording inputs into AI will get you different outputs so this also trains you on how to talk to AI to help AI give you the information you need back I think that's probably the probably the biggest thing is or the biggest benefits you will get over time with AI is the more you use it uh you will learn just like what they referred to as Google Fu back in the day your ability to search and Google you're going to get the same thing from AI but it's that's part of it is it's a learning system system so what you feed it it's going to essentially regurgitate back to you and so as you're getting in there and building it you're going to pause why Michael says something I was just going to say uh that made me think of the uh dragon dictionary the the talk to speak because you had to spend a lot of time training the software to get the uh quality that you needed from the software AI is a very similar tool very much so and it's one of those that like like anything else you you got to give to get you're going to have to spend some time put some effort into it to train the tool and this is where you it is valuable to have a actually log in and have an account on these things yes you can go in anonymously and all that kind of stuff but there is a value to having you know register and have that so it can tie stuff to you now granted you don't want to give up you know personal information and stuff like that but you do want to have some way to sort of like have it learned from you or just in the conver the conversations with the AI go in there and and you know sort of keep that conver keep that thread going and you know say what about this or how about this or what about this case and then that's like that's feeding more information into it and that's allowing you to build out an actual intelligence that is based off of where you want to go with it now obviously if you start sending it down a certain path then it's going to go down that path and that may not necessarily be what you want to do so there is a value of hitting a fresh AI you know different engine or something like that that doesn't isn't we say poisoned by your previous conversations but instead gives you maybe a way to you know think outside the box and go in a different direction so those are I think that's why you're like anything else and just like we talked about last time don't do all the work and then not use it this is something where if you go in and you use AI for like one thing and never again then you're probably not going to get as much benefit as you do if you do it on a regular basis and it's an engine where it's able to essentially know you or remember you so because if you do that it's going to say like hey you asked me to do an email and then you ask me to do a status and so it's going to take the the tweaks that you did to those and carry those forward to your next thing so when you say well hey I want to do a proposal it's going to start having some of that information built into it to say like oh you typically go this direction and so it's going to start going that way so make sure you know that's where you put the effort in and you will get the effort back thoughts before a challenge so the last thing I will touch on with that is AI is still in its infant as far as the general public is concerned there are more advanced AI behind the scenes but if you go down one of those rabbit holes don't be afraid to tell AI hey this is not going in the direction I want roll it back the last thread that it was working was back up here that will also help train the AI that oh this isn't the right path or the right you essentially have to tell it when it's not doing the right thing don't just use the check marks and thing I find those don't work as well if you actually tell AI hey that is not the response I want but give it feedback tell it hey I actually was looking for something a little bit more along the lines of this sometimes that will immediately get the AI back on track and you can keep the message going yeah it's it just like because I always think of those art things where it's like you know just an insane like really bad picture um sometimes you have to it will go off the rails just like we do sometimes and so you you do something to essentially reset it and get it back on track um because you usually you're going to be able to notice when it's suddenly like you know you're talking about you know a chicken recipe and the next thing you is telling you like how to kill people a thousand different ways like okay we've gotten off track let's like roll back to where we want to go with it sometimes those weird things happen uh sometimes there from a business point of view sometimes it may get you down a path you're saying like oh I just found a whole new line of business so sometimes it's okay to go down those rabbit Trails Trails but just be aware when you do so because sometimes there's like it's a bad Trail to go down I'll leave it at that challenge for the week is try it try out AI take one of these things um the easiest stuff is like take an email response particularly if it's one that you do on a regular basis or if it's already one that you've got a autoresponder that's like I always send this thing say take something like that or one of these templates that hopefully you've now created from prior Challenge and put it in Ai and just say is there a better way for me to take this and accomplish whatever your goal is you know for example like email if it is uh a response to request from a customer or potential customer throw it into Ai and say hey is there take this response and make it better if I want to sell to a customer or how do I make this response more likely to have a customer respond in a positive way you know things like that and then see how it goes see where it goes take a couple of those things and you'll get something different and if you use it then it may be a good opportunity for you to make some improvements on it so go for it I mean one of the best things you can do is say hey how do I make building better developers better and one of the ways and it's probably going to tell you I should almost I almost wanted to go do this right now it's probably going to say send an email to info@ developer nerd.com because that is going to be a great way to get your opinion heard and for us to hear where you want to go and to integrate that into future episodes also and this was where AI may give you other options like you could go into the contact us form on developer or.com you can leave feedback anything any article on developer or.com you can leave feedback wherever you hear podcasts you can leave feedback out on the developer nerd Channel on YouTube and if AI doesn't give you these answers then you need to go to a better AI because obviously that one is not the I is pretty weak and it's mostly just a big a a lot of artificial not a lot of intelligence yeah I'm throwing shade at the AI engines out there just deal with it so now we're going to be block we're like blacklisted every every be like I don't know what the heck that is that just sounds stupid don't talk to those people they're anti- AI they're probably like they need to be arrested or something like that see sometimes we go off the rails too that being said we're going to let you get your day back on the rails go out there and have yourself a great day a great time and we will talk to you next time bonus material so just a little additional tack on from the previous uh discussion is as you're building your business or as you're working your business run through some AI if you are questioning or not sure what to do ask AI however be very careful with certain things that you go to AI for for instance if you go ask it for tax uh information or how to file taxes or do things with taxes be careful with that make sure you take whatever you have and actually verify that with the CPA because you don't want to do something that AI says oh yeah this is right and it's completely illegal so just be very cautious with certain areas of the business still right now with AI use it though play with it see what you can do with it and really challenge it you know if you have this idea for something uh again watch out for intellectual properties but try to train AI for instance to build me a better mouse trap and just play around with that or for those of you Gamers out there uh you know try to do a Dungeons and Dragon Story with it try to play like a little DM make AI or DM uh those are very good ways to just kind of get integrated with AI and start learning it and start playing with it yeah those are I think those kind of the what's for lack of better term we'll call like the gamification of AI is I think there's a lot of little things like that that you can do even for entertainment so it could be stuff like ask AI to write a story about I don't know like a you know a trip to the coast or something like that just pick something and and see where it goes with it I think those kinds of things just getting used to what it brings to the table um I think is is probably going to be you know probably one of the best ways for you to to get to know it to get to understand where you can go with it and and it really is it's like for lack of learning it's language it's like how do I take this and make it make this uh this story or this response something that is in line with what I'm looking for and not just you know just some random thing sort of like gole Google searches it's like how do I make sure that this is like I'm on the page one of the search results and I'm not like 4,000 Pages down and I'm getting to something that has really nothing to do with what I'm what I'm actually looking for it's like that will and it's you know it's again it's one of those things that like I think the more you do it the more you get comfortable with it the more likely you're going to do it more often I I found that for me at very at the very least is that initially I would like I would do AI here and there and and do these various things but then you know I got to a point where I was like wow this is like this is something that I can use for for this process and this process and this process and this process and it's it's more and more I do stuff where it's like it's there's sites out there that that leverage this kind of stuff that you know they've gotten me thinking like oh well I could do something like that you know there's like there's all these little things that I'll stop there like the more you use it I think the more you'll be comfortable using it and the better the better it'll be for you you know moving forward closing thoughts yeah the only other thing I would throw out there is if you have like this kind of goes back to some of our other discussions um about like growing your business and things of that nature if you have a lot of like daily tax things that you do or you find yourself overwhelmed by working on the business not in the business run those ideas through AI treat AI as like a virtual assistant and see what it comes back with to help you streamline your processes that yeah that goes back to like yeah this is a sec it's a second set of another opinion it's a second set of eyes or a third set of eyes or however you look at it so it's like everything else is like find the way to use the tool the way the tool needs to be used like if it's a nail make sure you've got a hammer if you've got to cut a board Hammer is not very useful use it as a saw it's that same kind of thing as understanding how to use that tool that being said we'll wrap this one up so thank you so much for your time as always we appreciate you the AI appreciates you even if it doesn't appreciate me now because I threw shade hey that's life and it's life so go out there and live it as Michael says that is one of the things it's more important than work so go out there have yourself a great time and we will talk to you next time around [Music]
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[Music]
all righty then uh and let's just Dive
Right into
AI uh because I may have people they're
like wanting to Stage more room so I'm
just hoping that they're not like piling
in here as we're wrapping this one or at
least that it doesn't interrupt us too
much so we will go with our three two
I'm G to click this little guy because
that's annoying to me one well hello and
welcome back we are continuing our
episodes our season our series building
better developers we are building
businesses this time around and this
episode I alluded to it in the bonus
material this episode we're going to
talk about Ai and we've we talked last
episode about uh processes and
procedures and templates and now we're
going to like take it that next step and
like how do you take Ai and make use of
it because everybody's heard of it these
days almost everybody can spell it so
let's dive into that for this episode
but first I want to introduce myself my
name is Rob Broadhead I one of the
founders of develop andur also a founder
of RB Consulting where we are what they
refer to as like Boutique Consulting
we're not desktop support we're not like
just generalists we actually sit down
with you understand your business help
you craft a plan for technology through
simplification automation integration
Innovation we help you figure out what
is the best route for you and the best
way for you to use technology to they
get that technology sprawl maybe that
you have if you've been trying to work
on this for years or to give you like a
really good road map moving forward if
you're just starting out say how do I
how do I leverage technology not only
today but 6 months and six years from
now and doing so in a CA situation where
you're not like every year having to say
okay we got to like throw everything out
we got to rebuild everything we didn't
build anything that can grow so now
we've got a you know it's like having a
house and you have a kid every year and
then next year like buy a new house
build a new house build a new house
that's sort of how your business may be
because you're you grow sometimes very
quickly and we want to help you build a
solution that grows with you good things
and bad things oh this just like two
sides of the same not really two sides
the same coin but it's the same thing in
a sense because the good thing is we
finally managed to get out have a little
bit of time and just went and saw a
movie last night went and saw the latest
uh Captain America movie which was good
it's like haven't sat down and seen a mo
a Marvel theater movie in I don't know
how long it's been a while so it was a
fun time the bad side is it could have
been more fun because they didn't have
heat on in there so we sit down and like
two minutes I'm normally cold doesn't
bother me I'm not very far into the
movie where I'm like taking my coat off
and wrapping it around my legs because
my legs are freezing and I got jeans on
so it's not like I'm sitting there in
shorts or anything but it was cold and
it was like this is like odd little like
we're going to go down a rabbit a hole
little bit here on this one it's like
one of these odd things it was it was
cold and I had my coat on all that kind
of stuff but the thing that was driving
me nuts is my nose was so freaking cold
it was like when you're snow skin and
you got like your goggles you got your M
but only your little noses there and
it's like I could not figure out how to
like warm my no I wanted to just dip my
nose into like a cup of hot soup or
something like that it was just one of
those odd little things so I probably
over shared but that's okay because I'm
G to pass it on to somebody who may even
do the same Michael go ahead and
introduce yourself hey everyone my name
is Michael M I'm one of the co-founders
of developing n billing better
developers I'm also the founder of
Envision QA where we do very similar
things Rob's company does but we take
the approach of essentially the test
perspective from the user stories we
walk you through your company as your
user we understand how your software is
supposed to work or how your processes
work and then we make sure that the
software you have really is doing what
your business needs it to do if not we
can help you customize and create your
own software or we can help you find the
right tools to essentially grow your
business and streamline your
processes good bad this week uh good I
really knuckled down I got heads down uh
with one of the projects I'm working on
spent a great deal of time going through
data and figuring out processes as I
said and the bad side to that is I maybe
get to spend about 10 hours with my wife
this week so uh little too much work but
got a lot done but a little less time
with family uh just because I was so
heads down and trying to get things
moving forward so for those of you that
work a lot do try to make time for your
family because they are important to
us that is that is one of the things you
gotta like we got a lot going on you got
to make sure that you're keeping track
of that because you want that Personal
Touch you don't want like the cold kind
of Technology thing that AI might give
you so that's we'll say that's a good
little segue into I want to talk about
this time is AI and really leveraging AI
for tasks particularly like let's
there's a lot there's a lot of ways you
can go with it I really want to keep us
sort of focused on processes procedures
and
templates because that was the last
episode and this is sort of like the
next step maybe or maybe it's part of
that step uh for example last episode we
talked about the challenge being like
pick a process and create a template or
or like refine that process you find a
way to just do that a little better to
make a little bit of improvement now ai
is a way to do this now it's you may not
think of it but one of the nice things
about AI at this point is I'm going to
go actually I'm going to go with two
things so one of the nice things is two
things so if you're keeping track maybe
I don't do math good sometimes um one is
the the repetitive types of stuff the
templates that are out there it used to
be that you had to like you know get a
book or you know you had to pay like a
consultant or a company or something
like that to provide you with a template
that was pretty useful now a lot of
times AI can get you there very quickly
if you say write me uh you know I need a
template for an email for responding to
a customer request for you know a refund
or something like that or uh I need to I
like give me a template for building an
email that is just a cold call approach
to talking to somebody you will get
information back and you can actually
work with AI a little bit and do some
refinements and get something that is
very specific useful and what you want
you know what really like makes you you
and of course as long as you're there
you you can put your personal touch into
it so you can let AI get you you know
8020 rule get you 80% of the way there
and then you go back and you can say hey
i' like I want to tweak this I want to
add this I want to adjust that I'm
thinking about this and like that's one
of things I think I'm going to go back
and look at like maybe my elevator pitch
and some of that kind of stuff let's
talk about um but that's where AI can
help you out is it's then this is where
the part two of it is is it can give you
another voice another opinion on
whatever it is you're doing so even if
you're sitting there in a meeting room
with 15 people discussing options for
your business and how you want to go you
could throw something into Ai and now
you have plus one more and depending on
how you utilize AI sometimes you can
feed it information that is going to
help it have that opinion based on a
certain point of view so like some
people early on were like saying hey
give me write me a you know I'm going to
take the day off email for my boss but I
want it in the tone of a pirate or
something like that and it's like it'll
give you st that or you know take this
and then put it in the tone of that or
pretend like it's coming from you know
do take this email and make it like how
would Bart Simpson write it or something
like that what we can do is take some of
those those same kind of things is have
those conversations ask those questions
and say hey based on like this book
or this chunk of code or this thing or
that thing based on this
context tell me what I would expect to
get from you know what would I get
expect to get back if I put it in this
context because sometimes that gives you
not only another opinion but a very
focused and maybe even very educated
other opinion doesn't mean it's right
but it does give you that idea of like
hey I can get I can generate something
very quickly that otherwise might take
me a lot of
research there's a lot you can do there
that will help you take some of these
regular processes and procedures and
either get started you know give you a
really good template if you can't find a
template or help you refine the one you
have because you can take your template
and say hey I don't find like I don't
find this converting how would I write
you for example like how would I take
this web page and make it convert
customers better something like that and
you're going to get ideas they may not
be great it's like the you know the art
all the art AI we've seen where this guy
like people have 15 different hands or
something like that but if you take that
it can maybe there's going to be maybe
some thoughts or some ideas or some some
gems are going to be buried in there
you're like oh I didn't think about that
I'm going to take that and apply that
into my my content or whatever my
processes so right now I'm G an example
I'm not going to send it to an AI I'm
gonna give it to Michael and he's going
to give you his thoughts on this thanks
Rob so first thing I'll give you a
slight disclaimer with AI if don't put
anything in the AI that is
proprietary uh that if you're like
medical don't put in patient information
because anything you put into a any AI
tool they
own and you want to make sure that you
protect your intellectual rights your
copyrights things of that nature so you
do want to be a little cautious with
what you put in AI however with that
being said there is a lot we can do with
AI for instance if you have like a
podcast you can take the transcript from
the podcast feed it into Ai and have it
summarize some bullet points and then
you can quickly write your blog on that
I am guilty uh the other things you can
do is you could also for sad blog say
hey help me write some social media
posts on different platforms now a
little caveat with that you do have to
train it a little bit to get your
feedback like Rob said you kind of want
to maybe ask it for your different
audiences or that you're trying to talk
to so one of the cool features you can
do with AI is say hey write me that
social media post but then add a small
caveat and say hey write me this post
for these platforms but Target the
particular uh audiences of those
platforms and you actually will get a
different response for each platform now
it may not be exactly what you want but
it is going to give you a much better
starting point than starting from
scratch so typically that takes you less
than 30 seconds to type that into AI you
get the content and you may spend
another 15 minutes uh tweaking it and
then you can post it the best part is
that saves you probably an hour from
going out to every single social media
site try to write something out there or
writing one message copy and pasting it
to multiple platforms which then you
kind of get stale because then they're
either going to follow you on one not on
the other and you might not be hitting
the right audiences on different social
media
platforms uh some the other things with
AI which is really cool uh we kind of
talked about this I think in the
pre-show last time uh was if you are
working on your business or you're
building your business and you don't
have all the employees you need some of
the things you need to get started yes
branding but you also need some of that
HR and Internal Documentation that you
need you can use AI to say hey build me
a business plan or oh hey go build me a
employee manual or a CO of contact
conduct you can then take that and
refine it for your business instead of
you having to go hire someone to spend a
lot of time to build this if you don't
have the cash up front or the time you
can use the AI to get you something
there quickly may not be perfect but
it's enough to get you kind of the
groundwork to get your business going uh
and to make sure that you're covered in
certain
areas and lastly uh the thing that uh I
like you talked about um you know giving
you another voice it's actually funny
depending upon the AI tool you use so
don't just stick with one sometimes it's
better off going to different AI
channels is if you want a conversation
like hey I want a to write an article to
talk about this particular topic but I
am addressing or like say I'm talking to
a room of high school students college
kids adults businesses you can Target Ai
and ask them hey do this or how would
you respond to this the thing is do that
in multiple AI
chats repeat the process a couple of
times because different AI Bots are
trained differently and you're going to
get different responses some are better
than others some are great at writing
code some suck at writing code uh some
are really good at writing sonets and
others are really good at writing
business documents so you just have to
make sure you're using the write tool so
if you're writing or if you're using Ai
and you're typing in something but
you're not quite getting what you want
try another AI tool you might get a
different response that is more in line
with what you're looking for but before
you just go with that one I would take
this uh take the response from the one
that works and say copy that paste it
into the one that didn't quite work and
say okay this is kind of what I'm
looking for can you duplicate it and
sometimes just the different wording
inputs into AI will get you different
outputs so this also trains you on how
to talk to AI to help AI give you the
information you need
back I think that's probably the
probably the biggest thing is or the
biggest benefits you will get over time
with AI is the more you use it uh you
will learn just like what they referred
to as Google Fu back in the day your
ability to search and Google you're
going to get the same thing from AI but
it's that's part of it is it's a
learning system system so what you feed
it it's going to essentially regurgitate
back to you and so as you're getting in
there and building it you're going to
pause why Michael says something I was
just going to say uh that made me think
of the uh dragon dictionary the the talk
to speak because you had to spend a lot
of time training the software to get the
uh quality that you needed from the
software AI is a very similar
tool very much so and it's one of those
that like like anything else you you got
to give to get you're going to have to
spend some time put some effort into it
to train the tool and this is where you
it is valuable to have a actually log in
and have an account on these things yes
you can go in anonymously and all that
kind of stuff but there is a value to
having you know register and have that
so it can tie stuff to you now granted
you don't want to give up you know
personal information and stuff like that
but you do want to have some way to sort
of like have it learned from you or just
in the conver the conversations with the
AI go in there and and you know sort of
keep that conver keep that thread going
and you know say what about this or how
about this or what about this case and
then that's like that's feeding more
information into it and that's allowing
you to build out an actual intelligence
that is based off of where you want to
go with it now obviously if you start
sending it down a certain path then it's
going to go down that path and that may
not necessarily be what you want to do
so there is a value of hitting a fresh
AI you know different engine or
something like that that doesn't isn't
we say poisoned by your previous
conversations but instead gives you
maybe a way to you know think outside
the box and go in a different direction
so those are I think that's why you're
like anything else and just like we
talked about last time don't do all the
work and then not use it this is
something where if you go in and you use
AI for like one thing and never again
then you're probably not going to get as
much benefit as you do if you do it on a
regular basis and it's an engine where
it's able to essentially know you or
remember you so because if you do that
it's going to say like hey you asked me
to do an email and then you ask me to do
a status and so it's going to take the
the tweaks that you did to those and
carry those forward to your next thing
so when you say well hey I want to do a
proposal it's going to start having some
of that information built into it to say
like oh you typically go this direction
and so it's going to start going that
way so make sure you know that's where
you put the effort in and you will get
the effort back thoughts before a
challenge so the last thing I will touch
on with that is AI is still in its
infant as far as the general public is
concerned there are more advanced AI
behind the scenes but if you go down one
of those rabbit holes don't be afraid to
tell AI hey this is not going in the
direction I want roll it back the last
thread that it was working was back up
here that will also help train the AI
that oh this isn't
the right path or the right you
essentially have to tell it when it's
not doing the right thing don't just use
the check marks and thing I find those
don't work as well if you actually tell
AI hey that is not the response I want
but give it feedback tell it hey I
actually was looking for something a
little bit more along the lines of this
sometimes that will immediately get the
AI back on track and you can keep the
message
going yeah it's it just like because I
always think of those art things where
it's like you know just an insane like
really bad picture um sometimes you have
to it will go off the rails just like we
do sometimes and so you you do something
to essentially reset it and get it back
on track um because you usually you're
going to be able to notice when it's
suddenly like you know you're talking
about you know a chicken recipe and the
next thing you is telling you like how
to kill people a thousand different ways
like okay we've gotten off track let's
like roll back to where we want to go
with it sometimes those weird things
happen uh sometimes there from a
business point of view sometimes it may
get you down a path you're saying like
oh I just found a whole new line of
business so sometimes it's okay to go
down those rabbit Trails Trails but just
be aware when you do so because
sometimes there's like it's a bad Trail
to go down I'll leave it at that
challenge for the week is try it try out
AI take one of these things um the
easiest stuff is like take an email
response particularly if it's one that
you do on a regular basis or if it's
already one that you've got a
autoresponder that's like I always send
this thing say take something like that
or one of these templates that hopefully
you've now created from prior Challenge
and put it in Ai and just say is there a
better way for me to take this and
accomplish whatever your goal is you
know for example like email if it is uh
a response to request from a customer or
potential customer throw it into Ai and
say hey is
there take this response and make it
better if I want to sell to a customer
or how do I make this response more
likely to have a customer respond in a
positive way you know things like that
and then see how it goes see where it
goes take a couple of those things and
you'll get something different and if
you use it then it may be a good
opportunity for you to make some
improvements on it so go for it I mean
one of the best things you can do is say
hey how do I make building better
developers better and one of the ways
and it's probably going to tell you I
should almost I almost wanted to go do
this right now it's probably going to
say send an email to info@ developer
nerd.com because that is going to be a
great way to get your opinion heard and
for us to hear where you want to go and
to integrate that into future episodes
also and this was where AI may give you
other options like you could go into the
contact us form on developer or.com you
can leave feedback anything any article
on developer or.com you can leave
feedback wherever you hear podcasts you
can leave feedback out on the developer
nerd Channel on YouTube and if AI
doesn't give you these answers then you
need to go to a better AI because
obviously that one is not the I is
pretty weak and it's mostly just a big a
a lot of artificial not a lot of
intelligence yeah I'm throwing shade at
the AI engines out there just deal with
it so now we're going to be block we're
like blacklisted every every be like I
don't know what the heck that is that
just sounds stupid don't talk to those
people they're anti- AI they're probably
like they need to be arrested or
something like
that see sometimes we go off the rails
too that being said we're going to let
you get your day back on the rails go
out there and have yourself a great day
a great time and we will talk to you
next time bonus
material
so just a little additional tack on from
the previous uh discussion is as you're
building your business or as you're
working your business run through some
AI if you are questioning or not sure
what to do ask AI however
be very careful with certain things that
you go to AI for for instance if you go
ask it for tax uh information or how to
file taxes or do things with taxes be
careful with that make sure you take
whatever you have and actually verify
that with the CPA because you don't want
to do something that AI says oh yeah
this is right and it's completely
illegal so just be very cautious with
certain areas of the business still
right now with AI use it though play
with it see what you can do with it and
really challenge it you know if you have
this idea for something uh again watch
out for intellectual properties but try
to train AI for instance to build me a
better mouse trap and just play around
with that or for those of you Gamers out
there uh you know try to do a Dungeons
and Dragon Story with it try to play
like a little DM make AI or DM uh those
are very good ways to just kind of get
integrated with AI and start learning it
and start playing with it yeah those are
I think those kind of the what's for
lack of better term we'll call like the
gamification of AI is I think there's a
lot of little things like that that you
can do even for entertainment so it
could be stuff like ask AI to write a
story
about I don't know like a you know a
trip to the coast or something like that
just pick something and and see where it
goes with it I think those kinds of
things just getting used to
what it brings to the table um I think
is is probably going to be you know
probably one of the best ways for you to
to get to know it to get
to understand where you can go with it
and and it really is it's like for lack
of learning it's language it's like how
do I take this and make
it make this uh this story or this
response something that is in line with
what I'm looking for and not just you
know just some random thing sort of like
gole Google searches it's like how do I
make sure that this is like I'm on the
page one of the search results and I'm
not like 4,000 Pages down and I'm
getting to something that has really
nothing to do with what I'm what I'm
actually looking for it's like that will
and it's you know it's again it's one of
those things that like I think the more
you do it the more you get comfortable
with it the more likely you're going to
do it more often I I found that for me
at very at the very least is that
initially I would like I would do AI
here and there and and do these various
things but then
you know I got to a point where I was
like wow this is
like this is something that I can use
for for this process and this process
and this process and this process and
it's it's more and more I do stuff where
it's like it's there's sites out there
that that leverage this kind of stuff
that you know they've gotten me thinking
like oh well I could do something like
that you know there's like there's all
these little things that I'll stop there
like the more you use it I think the
more you'll be comfortable using it and
the better the better it'll be for you
you know moving forward closing thoughts
yeah the only other thing I would throw
out there is if
you have like this kind of goes back to
some of our other discussions um about
like growing your business and things of
that nature if you have a lot of like
daily tax things that you do or you find
yourself overwhelmed by working on the
business not in the business run those
ideas through AI treat AI as like a
virtual assistant and see what it comes
back with to help you streamline your
processes
that yeah that goes back to like yeah
this is a sec it's a second set of
another opinion it's a second set of
eyes or a third set of eyes or however
you look at it so it's like everything
else is like find the way to use the
tool the way the tool needs to be used
like if it's a nail make sure you've got
a hammer if you've got to cut a board
Hammer is not very useful use it as a
saw it's that same kind of thing as
understanding how to use
that tool that being said we'll wrap
this one up so thank you so much for
your time as always we appreciate you
the AI appreciates you even if it
doesn't appreciate me now because I
threw shade hey that's life and it's
life so go out there and live it as
Michael says that is one of the things
it's more important than work so go out
there have yourself a great time and we
will talk to you next time around
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