AI Overwhelmed? Welcome to the Launch of AI For Everyone!

Your friendly guide to navigating Gen AI and future-proofing your skills.

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Janet Fitzpatrick-Wilks
January 25, 2024 • Estimated Reading Time: 7 minutes

Hi friends,

Feeling overwhelmed by the rise of AI in the workplace? You're not alone. This newsletter is your concise guide to navigating AI and future-proofing your skillset. We'll demystify the jargon, share actionable tips, and provide valuable resources to help you thrive in an automated world. We’ve designed our newsletter to be quickly scanned but with opportunities to dig deeper if inclined. Either way, we hope you’ll gain some important insights.

TODAY’S MENU

AI In The News: Is 2024 the year when AI grows up?

AI At Work: How Community Nurses are Using AI to Break Through Language and Cultural Barriers

AI Made Easy: From Concept to Completion: Produce a Digital Onboarding Manual in Only Hours!

The Future-Proof Report: How AI is Revolutionizing Human Resources, and The New Skills Required to Thrive

Tools Worth Your Time: Five Cool AI Tools

How AI-Fluent Are You? Try This Fun Quiz to Find Out!

AI IN THE NEWS

Is 2024 the year when AI become unavoidable in the workplace? Axios predicts key AI trends for 2024.

Specific predictions:

  • AI "co-pilots" will assist workers, while job losses due to AI may materialize.

  • Mobile AI tools will transform daily activities and hobbies.

  • AI will personalize healthcare through early disease detection and targeted drug treatment.

  • Legal battles over AI-generated content and copyright are expected.

  • A patchwork of state and EU regulations will impact AI development and use.

  • AI's role in elections raises concerns about manipulation and scapegoating.

AI AT WORK

Who would have imagined that Artificial Intelligence could be the key to deepening human connections? These Community Nurses have been discovering exactly that.

Image by Runway AI. Prompt: A smiling community nurse talking to a non-English speaking patient, using AI on her phone. Style: realistic.

Culture-Crossing Community Nurses:

In California, community nurses leverage AI-powered translation tools like "LanguageLine" to bridge language barriers and communicate effectively with diverse patients, fostering better healthcare access. (Source: San Francisco Chronicle)

Similar projects in France utilize AI translation during home visits, allowing nurses to provide culturally sensitive care to immigrant populations. (Source: The Guardian)

AI MADE EASY

Nothing concentrates the brain like a tight deadline! Watch how one HR manager used a trio of cool AI tools to help create a digital onboarding manual, in only a few hours.

Why Does it Matter? Once you start working with an AI ‘writing’ assistant you’ll learn tons more about what Generative AI can do for you, from brainstorming ideas, drafting and writing documents, emails, or blogs, to employee appraisals, video scripts, research, book or report summaries, mock interview questions, and even image generation.

TOOLS WORTH YOUR TIME!

Check out the tools featured in today’s ‘AI Made Easy Video’ plus a couple of others that are well worth checking out.

Bard AI: Google’s free writing assistant with an easy-to-use interface, and conversational style.

Typeset: Typeset automates presentation, e-book, and document design. Just add text and quickly generate visually striking content.

Grammarly: The unsung hero and essential app, on desktop or as a browser extension, for grammar, spelling, phrasing, and plagiarism checks. Free version available.

Synthesia: Super-smart video creation platform hosted by synthetic avatars. Offers a great range of avatars and voices, plus customization and editing tools

Murf ai: Popular text-to-speech app. promising AI-enabled ‘real people’s’ voices.

AI SKILLS SHIFT

The function of Human Resources is undergoing a profound shift, spearheaded by the powerful tools of AI. This isn't just about streamlining tasks; it's about reimagining the whole game. Explore this critical transformation and examine the skills required to stay competitive in the field, in our free in-depth Future-Proof report.

Are you comfortable talking the AI-talk? Boost your understanding and vocabulary with our fun quiz.

There’s An AI For That: Dynamic AI tools database featuring 11,591 AIs for 16,604 tasks and 4,847 jobs - as of today.

Top AI Tools - Independent, comprehensive database of AI tools, filtered by field, or specific use cases.

Free Resources Library - High-value e-books, reports, and infographics. FREE Downloads.

THROUGH A-EYES

I asked MidJourney to generate an image of a woman, tangled in knitting wool, as an analogy for having to ‘knit together’ a range of AI tools to achieve the desired results. There were many iterations between these two sets of images, and you can see how my prompt evolved. Take-Away Tip: MidJourney can be very literal. I asked for ‘tied’ instead of ‘tangled’ and that’s exactly what I got:)

Prompt: a woman in her thirties tangled in knitting yarn. Realistic

Prompt: A typical modern woman, with short hair, looks comically confused. She is all tied up with different colored knitting yarn. White background. Hyper realistic.

CURIOUS CAT

Meet Jackson Barn Cat a.k.a. JBC, office manager, resident AI-whisperer, and all-around curious cat. Each week he’ll nose bop a new challenge 😺 

Q: Use Generative AI to create a visual representation of AI that is NOT in the form of a humanoid or robot.

Hint: This is actually quite tricky. I discovered tons of bias here. AI was commonly depicted as robotic, scary, and usually male Let’s see what you come up with!

We’ll publish the best in an upcoming newsletter. Send your images to [email protected]

We’d love to hear about your personal experiences with AI at Work. If you have a story you’d like to share, or a question you’d like to submit, please drop us a line at: [email protected]