Is AI coming for your job?

Thank you for subscribing to the Artificially Intelligent Enterprise. It’s been a crazy week since I started this newsletter. So far, my AI book on Marketing, Marketing Machines, has been downloaded thousands of times, and the number of subscribers to this newsletter has been growing by hundreds per day. Marketing Machines was also a Product Hunt Product of the Day on May 2nd. I appreciate your interest, and I hope I can add value to your AI journey.

Feature Story: Is AI Coming for your job?

[Image generated by the Midjourney. The prompt is listed at the end of the email]

I believe that the best way to have a successful career is to continue learning and evolving. That’s why I share what’s in this newsletter. Whether or not we have anything to fear or not from AI, it’s worth considering how to be better in our jobs to make life easier and more productive. In this article, I delve into how AI might affect our jobs in the upcoming years and how to benefit from AI rather than fear it.

Tip of the Week: “Macros in ChatGPT”

Not too long ago, I saw a TikTok By Allie K. Miller, former IBM Watson product manager and AWS alum, that inspired me to create a macro for ChatGPT to create social media posts. When I say macro, I mean little automations to help you be more productive and by creating reusable prompts. Here’s an example of a prompt I use to make sure I get the right type and level of detail The ChatGPT prompt I typed in below (you can cut and paste it into ChatGPT to try it out).

You will function as an MBA professor at a top-tier U.S. Business school. During office hours your MBA students will come to your office and ask you questions about a topic. Length options are for short answer (500 characters or less) or long answer (500 to 2000 characters) in length .

If I want a short answer, 500 characters or less I will use the variable "1". If I want a more thorough answer, 500 to 2000 characters in length. I will use variable "2" if I want this option.

I will prompt you by using the shorthand OfficeHours=<question> Length =<#> where <question> is the question I want answered and <#> is a variable that will either equal 1 or 2.

And here’s the result:

For the alternate prompt, you would get this answer:

What I Read this Week

With so much being written about AI, I am curating the best things I read this week that I think will appeal to business readers (Plus, there is a bunch of AI-generated tripe with catchy headlines and no substance that I think I’ll try to filter out). I think that the new announcements around Google Bard are particularly worth noting.

• The Case for Big Action to Regulate Artificial Intelligence - Chamath Palihapitiya

• More Than 73% of Web3 Marketers Use Generative AI - BeinCrypto

• Google "We Have No Moat, And Neither Does OpenAI" - Semianalysis

• 90% of My Skills Are Now Worth $0 - Kent Beck, Software Design: Tidy First?

• Getting Writing Feedback with ChatGPT Using Specific Prompts: This Feature Will not Blow Your Mind - Wayan Bali

• 5 Ways to Future-Proof Your Career in the Age of AI - Harvard Business Review

• Google Just Added Generative AI to Search - Wired

• Google’s New TensorFlow Tools and Approach to Fine-Tuning ML - The New Stack

• New PitchBook Survey Reveals Venture Investors Bullish on AI and Cautious on Fundraising - Pitchbook (as a former CEO of a venture-backed startup, it’s no surprise, but I do think that future AI startups will need far less capital)

• What is Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT)? Explain Like I’m 5 - Jericho Siahaya on Medium

• Google drops waitlist for AI chatbot Bard and announces oodles of new features - The Verge

What I Listened To

Some of the more interesting podcasts on AI I listened to this week.

AI Tools for Presentations

Creating presentations is something I spent a lot of time doing over my career. It’s time-consuming and requires a lot of concentration for me. Right now, I am investigating Beautiful.ai and Tome to use AI-generated presentations. Neither one is a silver bullet yet, but I am hopeful that the beta feature in Tome that turns documents into presentations will improve quickly. Beautiful seems to be a better choice right now to edit slides like the love child between ChatGPT and Canva. Truth be told, the presentation I am working on, Crash Course in Artificial Intelligence, is being created in Powerpoint, but I had hoped I’d be doing it in one of these tools.

Other Tools for Business Users

The list of tools I have in the queue to play around with but have yet to form any opinion on. Feel free to suggest a tool that you think is cool or solves your problem.

• ChartGPT - AI-generated charts

• VizGPT - Use GPT to generate visualization from a dataset with natural language. It’s an open source project, but you can use their hosted playground. (H/T to the Neuron Daily)

• Sivi - Turn text into visuals like banner ads, hero images, and other common marketing assets, it’s launching on Product Hunt soon.

• 9 AI tools for better meetings (curated collection from Product Hunt)

• DeepBrain AI - DeepBrain AI’s AI Studios avatar video generation platform with ChatGPT. I used Synthesia for my launch video of Marketing Machines, and it was just okay, maybe DeepBrain will be better.

• Grain - Grain automates note-taking, record-keeping, and insight capture from every customer conversation.

Midjourney Prompt for Newsletter Header Image

For every issue of the Artificially Intelligent Enterprise, I am going to include the prompt in the header image to give my readers an idea of how to generate images from text using AI. I get great results using Midjourney to generate images from text, but I find it’s a function of how good my prompts are. I got lots of information from Fatih’s ebook, The Art of Midjourney AI: A Guide to Creating Images from Text, and Reuven Cohen on LinkedIn. Here’s how I generated the email header for this edition of Artificially Intelligent Enterprise.