How to use AI and Automation tools in your business

I'm sure that by now everyone and their grandma has heard about the new emerging AI tools like ChatGPT and MidJourney.

And you're probably in one of three camps 👇

Even though I understand most of the reasoning behind why some people are taking a harsh stance against it. Mainly when it comes to ethics in diffusing other people's content.

There's just no way of stopping this juggernaut.

This is disruption-level technology that is becoming more powerful and more accessible every day. Check this out:

Reached ONE MILLION users within a WEEK of its launch

Expects revenue of ONE BILLION by the end of the year 2024

This is "Code Red" for a platform like Google, which is something that shaped the way EVERYONE uses the internet, and I have some thoughts on how things are going to go from here on out.

We've had the first wave of releases and adoption of consumer-level AI products.

The main issues I witnessed holding back products in other industries during the first wave have always been accessibility and complexity.

For example, to adopt cryptocurrencies even to this day, you need to know your way around so many different tools and ecosystems just to participate. Leaving most people at the door or stranded by the roadside.

Simple and clean UI. Robust software. FREE!

Just type in the URL, log in with Google, and have fun.

Not only is it a great tool, that anyone can use, and that can have tons of impact by itself. But it can also be an upgrade to an existing system or business.

You can even build entire new software on top of it!

And that's how I see most people will end up interfacing with AI in the future. Through 3rd party integrations in their day-to-day apps.

Let's be honest. There is a big chance that you've already interacted with a GPT bot today and didn't even notice.

The 3 main applications in AI at the moment are:

Image generation (MidJourney, Stable Diffusion, Dall-E)

Here's how I implemented all of these in my day-to-day workflows 👇

ChatGPT is pretty much the perfect virtual assistant, you can ask it any practical question and it will have a good answer.

I even use it as a tool to brainstorm with myself, bounce ideas off of, and unblock my thinking and creative processes.

It can also act as a business manager, product designer, market researcher, or any other role that you need help with.

It can act as customer service and provide round-the-clock chat support on your website.

The most impactful case I've personally heard was that it is helping nurses treat patients in places where there is a lack of doctors.

The other great benefit of GPT is the ability to generate high amounts of well-written text that you can use for pretty much anything.

I say well written and not effective because as I learn more about copywriting and marketing in general, I can see a big gap in the way the best people write and the way GPT writes.

Still, it's good enough to create content around it, especially for a beginner. It's also great to just populate text when developing and prototyping, instead of using Lorem Ipsum.

Now, about Copilot: Of all the new AI tools the one that I've seen get the most hate among my developer peers is Copilot.

At least at first, most people would just dismiss it out of ego without even trying it or understanding its purpose, but now everybody loves it.

The reason why is that it can write all the code you don't feel like writing super fast.

I've been doing web development for almost 10 years and I have to say, even with all the new frameworks coming out, I've simply been building the same system over and over again.

I improve and perfect it as much as I can over time, and I have, but now it's just boring.

I don't have much of a challenge or anything new to learn.

What I have is the exact idea of what I want to build and I can have Copilot build it for me.

Give me a web page boilerplate, done. Sort this dataset by most recent, done. Scrape me some books and reviews from amazon, done.

You can act as a product manager and quality assurance, while Copilot develops your product.

You could even have ChatGPT act as a product manager while Copilot develops your product.

Are you picking up what I'm putting down?

And yes, Copilot is simply a code-oriented GPT, and ChatGPT can do it by itself, that's not the point.

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