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Adam Hall

AI Specialist

Adam Hall

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Adam Hall

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Closing the world's digital skills gap

Adam Hall

Clients

Version 15

Since the talk's conception

the AI startup sector has risen 5x

from 14,700 to 75,741 companies

the AI startup sector has risen 5x

from 14,700 to 75,741 companies

_{Source: Tracxn Technologies}

the AI startup sector has risen 5x

first run in March 2023

Example...

Ex-OpenAI staff found Safe SuperIntelligence (SSI) Inc
Elon is make a huge AI data factory
Meta AI gets a refresh
Claude gets a refresh

Change is faster than ever

but will never again be this slow

2,000,000
now

5,000,000
3 years

Source: The Nature of the Digital Skills Gap

58%
have never received
digital upskilling
from their employer

Don't let technology race away

11th June, 2020

I think therefor...

I am

CAN. NOT. WAIT.

You are working with a product team. I would like you to write a user story for each idea the team comes up with

Wedding seating plan app

As a busy bride to be
I want to create a seating plan for the wedding
So everyone will know their place, and the day will be amazing

New direct debit payment system on the app

As user on the app
I want setup an automatic monthly payment system
So I don't have to log in every month to pay manually

doesn't this miss the point of user stories?

Right Tool, Right Job

Consider Bard

Consider Bard

Some suggestions

There's an AI for that

Assess your tools regularly

Legal
Ethics
Price
Interoperability
Documentation
Team Performance

I want you to respond as if you are the joker. In just one short paragraph. Add in the noise of onomatopoeic laughter where relevant. Be as twisted and demented as possible tell me...

Focus on the filters first

Productivity Experiment

Context

Short time period
2 separate teams
Migrate Native mobile code to ReactNative
Existing Figma Library

Traditional

Gen AI

Traditional

Gen AI

15%

Tips

Learn the tools

Name your Figma layers

Work in small teams

Communicate

Learn to use the tools by using the tools

Empathy

Who is more empathetic, humans or AI?

ChatGPT has better bedside manner than Physicians*

_{*according to health-care professionals}

ChatGPT has better quality too

How do I benefit from this?

Code reviews

Rewrite this code review comment to be more constructive and friendly but still short manner Give me 5 options to chose from.

Allowing people to create OAPHs for objects they don't own is dangerous! Hardcode it or find a less dumb solution.

Use AI to make you more human

Misinformation

Lawyer used ChatGPT

Source: US lawyer admits using AI for case research

It's not a search engine

Bias

Politics

Don't assume neutrality

And the humans?

Automation bias
Sunk cost fallacy
Anchoring bias
Availability Heuristic
In-Group Bias

Humans are very susceptible to bias too. For example

Automation bias: Humans can have a tendency to trust automated outputs over other facts.

Sunk cost fallacy: We find it difficult to abandon a project once we've invested time and money into it. Interestingly even just a 4 word prompt that produces huge output humans find difficult to throw away..

Anchoring bias: We grow accustomed to the first output of a prompt we agree with, even if it contains hallucinations.

Availability Heuristic: Overestimating the likelihood of events that are easily recalled or readily available in memory. Example: A social media user assuming a particular viewpoint is widespread based on AI-curated content in their feed, ignoring the existence of diverse opinions.

In-Group Bias: Favoring individuals or information associated with one's own social group. - Example: Trusting AI implicitly because you are a white cis grown man who has a decent job, and generally approves of technological advances just like the people who made it

Know your biases

Conclusion

What is it good for?

Productivity
Learning new things
Minimum Viable Experiments
Exploring ideas
Improving the way you communicate
Becoming data driven

What is it bad at?

Single source of Truth
Reliability
Complexity & Nuance
Amplification of bias
Unique thought
Specialist domain knowledge

Ginni Rometty

Some people call this artificial intelligence, but the reality is this technology will enhance us. So instead of artificial intelligence, I think we'll augment our intelligence.

by mitch0zᵍᵐ

Any questions?

One more thing

Links

ChatGPT

An Early Look at the Labor Market Impact

Me on LinkedIn, Twitter and Mastadon