Admittedly, I have been holding out. I wasn’t sure if it was ethically ok for me to leverage AI to build and create content and contribute to projects. What I needed to get my head around was that my unique perspective and creative approach, or “special sauce”, in anything I do is mine and can't be replicated by AI tools, but rather enhanced.
I can use my experience, knowledge, and creativity in partnership with AI to create better, faster results. It’s like creating a roundtable of extensive knowledge to draw from and, in turn, creating a holistic high-quality product or outcome. Now that I am clear on that, I’ve been free to play and experiment in this new realm of AI.
Anyone who knows me and has worked with me is aware of the importance I place on productivity and efficiency at a high quality with a big impact. This can take enormous amounts of get-up-and-go energy and require sustained high levels of energy. What is amazing to me is the amount of time and energy using AI applications like Google’s Gemini or OpenAI’s ChatGPT saves when you are creating guides, reference documents and outlines. These processes require synthesizing large amounts of information to get to a clean actionable finished result. Historically, I have spent hours combing the internet researching topics, reading publications and books, taking notes, and synthesizing the info I gathered with my own knowledge into a meaningful output. Leveraging some of the many AI tools out there, I am able to get a jump start and direct more of my energy into customization, application, and implementation. This leap creates some ease at the powerful beginning stages of bringing a vision into physical reality, which typically takes massive start-up energy and is where many of us lose steam, stall out, or give up. What an incredible boost to not only increase our productivity, but provide that extra bump to get over the typical mental and energy hurdles that often hold us back or slow us down.
It’s ok to make things easier for ourselves (see my April ‘24 blog, “Embrace the Ease”). We don't have to make things more difficult for them to “count.” AI tools can support us to redirect our energy where we are best suited to add our unique value. I encourage you to find ease using AI tools to fill in gaps, lift you up, and supercharge your uniqueness.