Last week, I served on a panel for business school career coaches. And even though the panelists couldn’t wait to dig into the nitty-gritty of their AI experiences, we managed to hold our horses long enough to ask the following question:
Have you ever used AI before?
And you know what?
A whopping 50% of these career coaches from all the top schools in the world had never used AI.
And remember: This was last week. In other words, a full 9 months after ChatGPT launched!
Now I get it. New things can be scary for everyone - especially if those new things have the potential to disrupt traditions, existing expertise, and maybe even our livelihoods.
Yes, I generated this image with AI… :)
But no great challenge has ever been met successfully without honestly facing it. Could you imagine if David skipped his famous duel and instead launched a whisper campaign against Goliath from a cave in the hills? Or if the Apollo 11 astronauts had waited at home in Florida for the moon to come to them???
No, the first step in leading on AI is to take the full measure of this new technology.
Yes, you. Yes, right now.
Don’t even waste a second signing-up for any of the free tools. Just go right to https://www.perplexity.ai/ (no registration required, unlike ChatGPT, even though it works the same way) and run your first prompt today.
Here are a couple of good ones to try since I guarantee you they’re the exact ones your students are using right now:
There, that wasn’t so hard… :)