The RISE of AI in 2023

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 👇

• You're intrigued but haven't used it
• You've used it and you love it
• You hate it and you're against it

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:

• ChatGPT lauched on November 30 2022
• 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.

Adoption

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

Here's why it was so successful 👇

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.

Not with ChatGPT baby!

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.

Application

The 3 main applications in AI at the moment are:

• Predictive text generation (GPT)
• Code generation (GitHub Copilot)
• 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 getting the picture?

Are you picking up what I'm putting down?

DO YOU UNDERSTAND THE IMPLICATION?

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

The point is to pick up these tools and start leveraging them to improve your business and your life TODAY.

But you know what ChatGPT still can't do?

Image Generation

And even if you could just hook it up to Dall-E directly and have all the features in one platform wouldn't even cut it. No, when talking about image generation, having features and an API is not enough.

It's all about the model. Right now MidJourney blows every other image generation model out of the water, and it's not even close.

I would love to have all the features and API that Dall-E and Stable Diffusion have on MidJourney, and I'm sure they will come, but the quality of output from MidJourney is astronomical units away from the rest.

This has been the tool that has enabled me the most. Having the ability to illustrate anything I need and in the style that I like feels so good and so empowering.

Not just for Illustration but also for Web Design. MidJourney can make beautiful UIs of all kinds, for desktop and mobile in a flash and with very little effort.

Check out my AI Web Design Gallery

These can even be used as mockups after cleaning the text artifacts. That way I can have more time to focus on the user experience.

The quality of life and results. The increased productivity and time saved. The ability to amplify your existing skills and enable the ones you lack.

All of this is still pretty much underrated and understated. And if you're reading this, you are EARLY.

"You too can achieve broken clock status, if you are early on everything" - Michael Burry after Elon Musk called him a broken clock.

Or something along those lines.

Job Displacement

Is AI gonna take over and replace you at your job? NO

Can AI help someone else replace you at your job? YES

You're not going to be replaced by a machine, but you might be replaced by someone that can work with the machine better than you.

This is the real displacement that is about to happen in ALL industries, and that might be a hard pill to swallow for some people who don't hop on this technology thinking it's just another nerdy trend.

This is not some meaningless profile picture, this is not some fake internet money. This is an actual impact on people's lives and work. Something that all software companies promise but very few deliver.

I really see this as the next step in tech literacy, and won't be long until being proficient in some AI tool is a job requirement just like Excel.

But before we reach that stage, there will be a productivity war.

Let's take software engineering as an example and you can apply this logic to any worker role.

Bad engineers that can leverage AI will be more productive and valuable to the business than good engineers who don't leverage these tools.

Same for juniors and seniors.

I see some companies stop hiring juniors because seniors can just use AI to do the work of a junior.

I see others only hiring juniors in order to get more bang for their buck.

Overall I don't see anyone that learns these tools have any problem getting a new job or keeping their current one.