WEBVTT - How to Make AI Your Most Powerful Workplace Ally 0:00:06.570 --> 0:00:10.690 You're listening to I'MM with Me podcast. 0:00:13.530 --> 0:00:17.970 Hello, and welcome to biz your work life Sorted. I'm 0:00:18.050 --> 0:00:21.169 m Venom and today we're diving into something that I 0:00:21.210 --> 0:00:25.250 am personally obsessed with. We're using AI to make our 0:00:25.290 --> 0:00:29.610 work lives easier, or as TikTok calls it, lazy girl jobs. 0:00:30.090 --> 0:00:34.130 So I'll be honest, I use AI for literally everything 0:00:34.410 --> 0:00:37.330 these days. I use it for therapy, although I'm not 0:00:37.330 --> 0:00:39.449 going to talk about that today, but I also use 0:00:39.490 --> 0:00:42.610 it to help me prep for interviews, to structure my thoughts, 0:00:42.930 --> 0:00:45.490 even just to give me a little confidence booster before 0:00:45.530 --> 0:00:48.290 big meetings. But I know a lot of people are 0:00:48.330 --> 0:00:50.650 either scared of it, or confused by it, or worry 0:00:50.650 --> 0:00:51.170 that it's going to. 0:00:51.210 --> 0:00:51.890 Take your job. 0:00:52.250 --> 0:00:55.410 So today, so sits down with AI expert Amantha Imba 0:00:55.530 --> 0:00:58.690 from INVENTINGM to break down exactly how to use AI 0:00:58.770 --> 0:01:01.850 tools properly. And when I say properly, I mean actually 0:01:01.970 --> 0:01:05.130 making them work for you, not just throwing random prompts 0:01:05.130 --> 0:01:08.170 at chat GBT and hoping for the best. Plus, they're 0:01:08.170 --> 0:01:10.809 sharing the exact prompts and frameworks that will help you 0:01:10.929 --> 0:01:13.369 use AI as your personal work assistant. 0:01:14.449 --> 0:01:16.449 First, when it comes to AI. I think there's a 0:01:16.490 --> 0:01:19.450 really big mix in terms of how people are using it. 0:01:19.449 --> 0:01:22.850 It's also changing so quickly. So in a work context, 0:01:22.850 --> 0:01:25.330 should we be just trying to use AI as the 0:01:25.369 --> 0:01:27.569 first point of call for everything or is there a 0:01:27.569 --> 0:01:28.050 better way? 0:01:28.330 --> 0:01:31.289 There's definitely a better way. Do not just default to AI. 0:01:31.490 --> 0:01:35.330 So there are three questions that we think about at 0:01:35.410 --> 0:01:38.530 Inventium when we're training people on how to use AI. 0:01:38.649 --> 0:01:39.569 So the first. 0:01:39.410 --> 0:01:43.609 Question is what is the risk if AI gets it wrong. 0:01:44.089 --> 0:01:46.529 If it's a low risk, great, go ahead and use AI. 0:01:46.610 --> 0:01:48.650 But if it's a higher risk, like if the life 0:01:48.730 --> 0:01:53.330 and death situation, maybe think twice. Secondly, and this is related, 0:01:53.770 --> 0:01:58.690 can you easily verify and correct the AI's output? So 0:01:59.050 --> 0:02:02.210 you know, if for example, you're getting it to help 0:02:02.250 --> 0:02:06.290 you write an article on something or social media post, 0:02:06.370 --> 0:02:09.450 it's probably going to be pretty easy to verify things. 0:02:09.530 --> 0:02:12.210 Maybe there's some research that it's referenced, you can go 0:02:12.290 --> 0:02:14.730 straight to the source and check that. But if you 0:02:15.210 --> 0:02:17.290 can't verify it, let's just say you're getting it to 0:02:17.330 --> 0:02:20.490 review a contract and you're not a lawyer and that 0:02:20.530 --> 0:02:23.410 contract is high stakes, maybe don't use the AI. And 0:02:23.450 --> 0:02:28.610 then finally, will the AI save you significant time or effort, 0:02:29.010 --> 0:02:31.610 because if it would be quicker to just write that 0:02:31.690 --> 0:02:35.050 quick little email back yourself rather than prompt the AI 0:02:35.170 --> 0:02:37.410 to do it for you, then there's really no point 0:02:37.450 --> 0:02:38.210 in using the AI. 0:02:38.290 --> 0:02:40.010 So there are the three questions that we ask. 0:02:40.010 --> 0:02:42.170 I've definitely made that mistake before where it's like, would 0:02:42.210 --> 0:02:43.889 you like AI to write this for you? And I'm 0:02:43.930 --> 0:02:46.570 like sure, and then you spend more time rewarding it. Okay, 0:02:46.610 --> 0:02:49.010 I really like those. So one assess the risk to 0:02:49.290 --> 0:02:51.210 can you verify the output? And then three is it 0:02:51.250 --> 0:02:53.170 actually going to save you time? Just one number two 0:02:53.170 --> 0:02:55.810 in terms of verifying the output? How do you actually 0:02:55.890 --> 0:02:57.210 do that? Then? So can you give such just a 0:02:57.250 --> 0:02:59.650 few more examples of how you would actually verify the output. 0:02:59.930 --> 0:03:03.130 So, for example, if you're using the AI to research 0:03:03.170 --> 0:03:06.290 something for you and it gives you all the sources, 0:03:06.850 --> 0:03:09.250 I think a lot of us now know that AI 0:03:09.650 --> 0:03:12.530 is not a fact engine. It's a prediction engine that 0:03:12.610 --> 0:03:15.290 is very important, So it doesn't produce facts and it 0:03:15.410 --> 0:03:18.690 is very prone to HA hallucination. So if for example, 0:03:18.890 --> 0:03:22.090 you've asked it to research I don't know some statistics 0:03:22.090 --> 0:03:25.250 around mobile phone use, and it's spitting out some data. 0:03:25.690 --> 0:03:27.889 You want to be clicking on those sources that it's 0:03:27.930 --> 0:03:30.770 giving you to verify those answers yourself. 0:03:31.090 --> 0:03:33.610 Yeah, it's so true, I guess as well. Another build 0:03:33.690 --> 0:03:36.010 on that is if you're doing something for the first time, 0:03:36.050 --> 0:03:38.330 So say your boss is like, can you write this 0:03:38.570 --> 0:03:41.090 like twenty page strategy document. You've never done that before. 0:03:41.170 --> 0:03:43.090 Using AI to give you that output, you're not really 0:03:43.130 --> 0:03:45.730 going to know like is that output any good or not? Okay, 0:03:45.810 --> 0:03:49.250 So that's understanding when you should use it and doesn't 0:03:49.250 --> 0:03:51.450 necessarily mean you should be using it for every task. 0:03:51.970 --> 0:03:54.210 Let's talk about like this is kind of what we 0:03:54.250 --> 0:03:55.810 really want to get into today, which is like the 0:03:55.890 --> 0:03:58.810 detail around how you actually use it, you know, sort 0:03:58.850 --> 0:04:01.130 of challenging a lazy girl energy here. We want to 0:04:01.170 --> 0:04:03.490 be using it to save us time and to make 0:04:03.530 --> 0:04:06.450 our jobs easier. But I think the problem a lot 0:04:06.450 --> 0:04:08.370 of us get into is we just jump straight into 0:04:08.410 --> 0:04:10.610 like trying to write those prompts in chat GPT, and 0:04:10.650 --> 0:04:12.490 then we're not really happy with what we're getting out 0:04:12.490 --> 0:04:14.650 of it. So there's something really important that you need 0:04:14.650 --> 0:04:17.370 to understand first. So Amantha Savius, what do we need 0:04:17.450 --> 0:04:19.450 to know before we just start prompting. 0:04:19.450 --> 0:04:21.450 Well, what we need to do is we need to 0:04:21.450 --> 0:04:25.250 think about what role can AI actually play to help us, 0:04:25.370 --> 0:04:28.010 Because if you think about your work life, there are 0:04:28.050 --> 0:04:31.089 three categories of people that you have in your work life. 0:04:31.130 --> 0:04:33.370 There's people that you can delegate too that might be 0:04:33.410 --> 0:04:38.130 say an administrative assistant. There's people that are teammates, so 0:04:38.490 --> 0:04:41.370 our buddies that might give us feedback and you know, 0:04:41.610 --> 0:04:43.730 just help us think about ideas on problems that we're 0:04:43.730 --> 0:04:46.570 trying to solve. And then there's experts. So maybe your 0:04:46.570 --> 0:04:50.010 boss is an expert. Hopefully maybe you've got a mentor, 0:04:50.450 --> 0:04:52.450 or maybe there are other clever people that you draw on. 0:04:52.850 --> 0:04:55.410 And too often where we get it wrong with AI 0:04:55.690 --> 0:04:57.770 is we just think about the AI as something we 0:04:57.810 --> 0:05:02.570 can delegate our low level admin monotonous tasks too, right 0:05:02.810 --> 0:05:06.450 like can you take notes for this meeting and summarize 0:05:06.490 --> 0:05:08.969 the actions so I can email that round? Pretty low 0:05:09.090 --> 0:05:11.409 level kind of task. Can you write this email for me? 0:05:11.490 --> 0:05:15.810 Pretty low level? But where AI also really shines is 0:05:15.890 --> 0:05:19.090 as a buddy and also as an expert. So I 0:05:19.130 --> 0:05:20.730 don't know if you're anything like me, but I feel 0:05:20.810 --> 0:05:23.570 very guilty tapping teammates on the shoulder and going hey, 0:05:23.650 --> 0:05:25.650 can I get your feedback on this presentation I've put 0:05:25.690 --> 0:05:29.050 together or something like that, because you know, people's time 0:05:29.130 --> 0:05:32.810 is precious, but with the AI, it's always there for you. 0:05:32.930 --> 0:05:35.370 It doesn't care how many times you ask at things, 0:05:35.410 --> 0:05:37.210 what time of day or night you're asking it. 0:05:37.290 --> 0:05:39.490 So it is great as a buddy. 0:05:39.850 --> 0:05:42.130 Like you know, if I want to get a second 0:05:42.130 --> 0:05:45.169 set of eyes on, you know, like a post that I've. 0:05:44.970 --> 0:05:47.770 Written, I can just ask the AI to give me 0:05:47.970 --> 0:05:49.570 its views on that. And I can also use it 0:05:49.570 --> 0:05:50.690 as an expert. 0:05:50.530 --> 0:05:54.170 Like there are times I find where you might have 0:05:54.210 --> 0:05:56.850 a contract to review. There might be pretty low stakes, 0:05:56.890 --> 0:05:58.650 but you still need to look at it. Like let's 0:05:58.650 --> 0:06:01.530 say a contract to use a photographer for an event, 0:06:02.050 --> 0:06:06.010 and it's not worthwhile paying a lawyer to reve because 0:06:06.010 --> 0:06:08.290 it's low stakes. And I must say, lawyers are great 0:06:08.370 --> 0:06:11.930 and lawyers are important, but USEI as an expert. You 0:06:11.970 --> 0:06:14.490 can prompt it to be in the persona of a 0:06:14.570 --> 0:06:16.530 lawyer and just review the contracts so that you can 0:06:16.610 --> 0:06:18.089 understand the causes that you're signing. 0:06:18.130 --> 0:06:21.170 For example, Ah, this is so good, I've never thought 0:06:21.170 --> 0:06:24.250 about it. In those three levels. Before I know we're 0:06:24.290 --> 0:06:26.570 going to get into a live walkthrough of sort of 0:06:26.570 --> 0:06:28.330 how you craft are prompt in a moment, but just 0:06:28.370 --> 0:06:30.010 going back to because I just think like some of 0:06:30.010 --> 0:06:33.170 those use cases you shared are just so helpful and 0:06:33.450 --> 0:06:35.690 can be quite simple too. So back to it being 0:06:35.730 --> 0:06:37.730 like your buddy or your coworker who you don't want 0:06:37.770 --> 0:06:40.250 to bother if you like, can you just review this 0:06:40.530 --> 0:06:42.450 doc and tell me how to make it better? What 0:06:42.450 --> 0:06:44.570 would be just an example prompt that you would throw 0:06:44.570 --> 0:06:45.650 in there to get it to do that? 0:06:46.130 --> 0:06:49.570 I would firstly always talk about, well, what's my task, 0:06:49.650 --> 0:06:51.450 what's my goal that I need at the end of 0:06:51.490 --> 0:06:54.930 the day. Am I looking for a critique? Am I 0:06:55.010 --> 0:06:58.890 looking for a grammar and spelling check? Am I looking 0:06:59.090 --> 0:07:01.970 for someone to view it through the lens of one 0:07:02.010 --> 0:07:04.930 of my customers, for example? So be really clear and 0:07:04.970 --> 0:07:08.330 give it that context. I would also if something that 0:07:08.330 --> 0:07:11.370 you've done before, like let's just say it's a report 0:07:11.370 --> 0:07:14.650 that you have to produce every week for your manager, 0:07:15.250 --> 0:07:17.970 I would give it examples of previous reports that I've 0:07:17.970 --> 0:07:20.530 written that I know a really good quality, and I'd say, 0:07:20.650 --> 0:07:23.570 can you compare it against these previous reports and suggest 0:07:23.650 --> 0:07:26.650 how I might improve it? For example, or tell me 0:07:26.690 --> 0:07:28.010 what I might be missing. 0:07:27.890 --> 0:07:29.530 Now that you're talking about this. This is kind of 0:07:29.530 --> 0:07:31.610 how I use it a lot in terms of that 0:07:31.730 --> 0:07:35.410 sort of almost like thought partner or like peer. And 0:07:35.450 --> 0:07:37.610 so I'll even use things like can you tell me 0:07:37.610 --> 0:07:39.730 what the boring parts are of this and take them out? 0:07:39.810 --> 0:07:42.530 Or can you rewrite this like you're explaining it to 0:07:42.570 --> 0:07:45.170 a smart twelve year old. I find those really helpful 0:07:45.210 --> 0:07:47.130 as well. But just like that kind of thought partner's 0:07:47.170 --> 0:07:50.170 boring partner, I find really helpful too. So that's kind 0:07:50.170 --> 0:07:51.930 of like how to use it as a buddy or 0:07:51.930 --> 0:07:54.690 a peer. Let's talk about an expert. One talk me 0:07:54.730 --> 0:07:56.130 through how you use it as an expert. 0:07:56.410 --> 0:07:58.610 So when I'm using it as an expert, I will 0:07:58.610 --> 0:08:02.650 often go into what I refer to as voice mode 0:08:02.770 --> 0:08:05.210 and how I use it. I've got chat JPT as 0:08:05.210 --> 0:08:07.970 an app on my phone, and you can go into 0:08:08.010 --> 0:08:11.610 the app and there's a little symbol that looks like, 0:08:11.890 --> 0:08:15.050 I guess, an audio icon, and if you press on that, 0:08:15.330 --> 0:08:17.090 wait for it to connect to the internet and turn 0:08:17.090 --> 0:08:21.450 into a colorful bubble. The AI becomes a voice companion 0:08:21.570 --> 0:08:24.850 as opposed to a writing companion, and it will talk 0:08:24.890 --> 0:08:27.210 to you and you can have a conversation with it 0:08:27.250 --> 0:08:30.090 as if you are talking to a real person. 0:08:30.410 --> 0:08:33.130 So that is voice mode. I use that heaps. 0:08:33.650 --> 0:08:37.170 Where I find it's really useful is I will often 0:08:37.570 --> 0:08:40.250 try to think through problems when I'm out walking, when 0:08:40.250 --> 0:08:44.330 I'm out moving, and what I now do is, rather 0:08:44.370 --> 0:08:46.970 than just being with my own thoughts, than having to 0:08:47.010 --> 0:08:50.250 think through things on myself, I can now have an 0:08:50.290 --> 0:08:52.330 expert that I'm having a chat with while I go 0:08:52.410 --> 0:08:55.010 for a walk. Like the other morning, I went for 0:08:55.010 --> 0:08:57.130 a pretty early morning walk and I was trying to 0:08:57.130 --> 0:09:00.810 think through a pricing strategy for a new product that 0:09:00.810 --> 0:09:04.849 we're launching at Inventium, and so I prompted the AI 0:09:04.930 --> 0:09:09.850 to actors are pricing expert in my particular industry, which 0:09:09.890 --> 0:09:13.410 is consulting, and then I just started having a chat 0:09:13.450 --> 0:09:16.970 with it about, Hey, this is my context, this is 0:09:17.010 --> 0:09:19.090 the task that I want you to help me think through. 0:09:19.370 --> 0:09:23.250 And we basically had a thirty minute conversation where I 0:09:23.290 --> 0:09:27.050 had managed to channel an expert in pricing strategy, and 0:09:27.130 --> 0:09:29.130 by the end of that thirty minute walk, I had 0:09:29.130 --> 0:09:31.770 some really great advice that I could put into practice. 0:09:31.930 --> 0:09:33.930 I feel like, if you don't listen to the rest 0:09:33.970 --> 0:09:36.290 of the episode, don't worry, because this is the most 0:09:36.290 --> 0:09:41.210 important thing. This for me was completely game changing for 0:09:41.330 --> 0:09:44.090 anyone who is not using voice mode. You can use 0:09:44.090 --> 0:09:46.010 it on chat, GPT, you can use it on Gemini. 0:09:46.170 --> 0:09:49.010 I think probably most AI assistants have it. Now I 0:09:49.050 --> 0:09:51.410 want you to pause this episode. I want you to 0:09:51.490 --> 0:09:53.530 get your phone out, I want you to download the 0:09:53.650 --> 0:09:57.050 app for your AI have choice, and I want you 0:09:57.090 --> 0:10:00.170 to actually test out using voice mode. So as Amantha said, 0:10:00.210 --> 0:10:02.490 it's that little button on the right hand side, lower 0:10:02.570 --> 0:10:04.210 right hand side, and it looks like a little sound 0:10:04.210 --> 0:10:10.090 recorder it and just start talking. It's so conversational and natural. Yeah, 0:10:10.090 --> 0:10:13.090 this has been game changing for me. The way I 0:10:13.170 --> 0:10:15.330 use it that I really love is to help it 0:10:15.490 --> 0:10:18.730 organize my thoughts. So obviously I'm a content creator, but 0:10:18.930 --> 0:10:20.410 this could be for you. You know, you've got a 0:10:20.450 --> 0:10:22.450 LinkedIn post that you maybe you want to write at work, 0:10:22.490 --> 0:10:24.370 or you've got like a strategy document you're working on. 0:10:24.450 --> 0:10:26.370 You have to give a talk to your team and 0:10:26.570 --> 0:10:29.210 update in a team meeting. I just say to it, 0:10:29.290 --> 0:10:32.650 I want you to act as a marketing manager or 0:10:32.690 --> 0:10:35.010 a business leader, whatever it is. And I'm just going 0:10:35.050 --> 0:10:37.050 to share with you some of my thoughts. Then I'm 0:10:37.050 --> 0:10:39.330 going to get your help to craft that into something 0:10:39.330 --> 0:10:41.090 that has structure and blood, and then you just share 0:10:41.090 --> 0:10:42.490 your little thoughts with it, and then you just kind 0:10:42.490 --> 0:10:44.490 of keep going back and forth like that. So I 0:10:44.570 --> 0:10:45.570 use that all the time. 0:10:45.930 --> 0:10:46.490 I love that. 0:10:46.730 --> 0:10:49.330 I love that. I've also heard a lot of young 0:10:49.370 --> 0:10:52.890 people using it like a therapist or like an executive coach. 0:10:52.890 --> 0:10:54.970 For example, this is like putting me out of a 0:10:55.050 --> 0:10:56.650 job right now, but basically you say to it, like 0:10:56.690 --> 0:10:59.010 act as an executive coach at leading companies like Apple 0:10:59.090 --> 0:11:00.850 or Google, and I want you to coach me on 0:11:00.850 --> 0:11:02.610 this problem that I've got, and you literally just like 0:11:02.690 --> 0:11:04.930 share your problem with it. But therapy as well. Lots 0:11:04.970 --> 0:11:16.490 of gen z using chat jopt there a bit. Now 0:11:16.530 --> 0:11:19.890 we're going to get into the really practical stuff for everyone. 0:11:20.010 --> 0:11:21.770 So we're actually going to do a bit of a 0:11:21.810 --> 0:11:24.850 walkthrough of what makes a good prompt, because I think 0:11:24.850 --> 0:11:27.010 that's where a lot of us just kind of come undone. 0:11:27.010 --> 0:11:28.650 We'll just like chuck a prompt in there, we don't 0:11:28.650 --> 0:11:30.250 really get a good output, and we're like, that was 0:11:30.250 --> 0:11:33.810 waste of time. I'm not doing it again. But sometimes 0:11:33.970 --> 0:11:37.170 it's a you problem and we're going to fix our 0:11:37.250 --> 0:11:40.410 prompting the anatomy of a prompt. Okay, so let's talk 0:11:40.450 --> 0:11:43.450 about the use case amanth Of. Say you've got a 0:11:43.450 --> 0:11:46.690 presentation that you have to give an internal presentation in 0:11:46.770 --> 0:11:50.010 a just like normal weekly team meeting. Can you walk 0:11:50.010 --> 0:11:52.410 me through how you would approach creating a prompt for that. 0:11:52.730 --> 0:11:53.010 Yes. 0:11:53.130 --> 0:11:56.490 So at a higher level, what we talk about at 0:11:56.530 --> 0:11:59.330 Inventium in our training as we say that there's gun 0:11:59.370 --> 0:12:02.890 slinging and there's architecting when it comes to prompting. So 0:12:03.130 --> 0:12:06.930 gun slinging is where you just treat it as someone 0:12:06.970 --> 0:12:09.290 you were chatting to and you're like, hey, help me 0:12:09.330 --> 0:12:12.050 do this presentation, and then it does stuff and then 0:12:12.330 --> 0:12:15.010 you're like, ah, no, you got that completely wrong. 0:12:15.130 --> 0:12:16.410 Do more of this, do less of. 0:12:16.370 --> 0:12:20.650 That, and it turns into this really long, arduous prompt 0:12:20.730 --> 0:12:23.090 chain and at the end you're thinking, why did I 0:12:23.130 --> 0:12:26.210 even try using AI in the first place. So gunsling 0:12:26.290 --> 0:12:28.850 is very ad hoc, but we find that I would 0:12:28.890 --> 0:12:31.370 say ninety five percent of people that we work with 0:12:31.410 --> 0:12:34.130 and coach at invent Him use a gunslinging approach. What 0:12:34.210 --> 0:12:36.850 will get you a far better result, particularly the more 0:12:37.210 --> 0:12:40.329 complex project you're trying to work with AI. The more 0:12:40.330 --> 0:12:44.090 important this is is what we call architecting, where how 0:12:44.130 --> 0:12:45.890 we would do it. Let's take the example of a 0:12:45.890 --> 0:12:50.450 work presentation project update. Let's say is that first we're 0:12:50.450 --> 0:12:53.730 setting the task or the goal. So that might be 0:12:54.330 --> 0:12:57.330 I need you to help create a presentation from scratch, 0:12:57.690 --> 0:12:59.410 or it might be I need you to help you know, 0:12:59.490 --> 0:13:01.770 review this existing presentation. It's probably going to be one 0:13:01.810 --> 0:13:04.610 of those goals. Then we want to give it the context, 0:13:04.970 --> 0:13:06.850 so we need to tell it who is the audience 0:13:07.090 --> 0:13:09.370 and what are the outcomes that I am trying to 0:13:09.410 --> 0:13:10.970 achieve with this presentation. 0:13:11.330 --> 0:13:14.370 So that might be the audience is like my team 0:13:14.570 --> 0:13:18.250 of mid level marketing managers, and the outcome might be. 0:13:18.450 --> 0:13:21.090 The outcome might be just so they're feeling crystal clear 0:13:21.130 --> 0:13:23.610 on where this project is at, or so that they 0:13:23.690 --> 0:13:26.970 are going to approve a certain amount of funding for 0:13:27.050 --> 0:13:29.170 this idea that I have, or you know, whatever it 0:13:29.370 --> 0:13:32.010 might be. The more specific we can be, the better. 0:13:32.090 --> 0:13:35.210 So definitely the audience tell it the industry that you're in, 0:13:36.050 --> 0:13:38.490 what your job is. So the more context the better, 0:13:38.650 --> 0:13:41.370 because it is not psychic yet. 0:13:41.930 --> 0:13:43.650 Then instead of. 0:13:43.610 --> 0:13:46.650 Just going okay, so go create that presentation for me 0:13:46.890 --> 0:13:49.410 in which case you are going to end up with 0:13:49.490 --> 0:13:54.130 a very very messy prompt thread. Instead, work on an 0:13:54.170 --> 0:13:57.410 outline first, because something like a presentation has a lot 0:13:57.410 --> 0:13:59.890 of different components and there's a way to structure it. 0:14:00.250 --> 0:14:02.450 So if you think about it like a collaborative buddy, 0:14:02.850 --> 0:14:05.770 and you prompt it first to say, help work with 0:14:05.850 --> 0:14:10.370 me on an outline for this presentation, don't actually start 0:14:10.490 --> 0:14:12.490 writing the presentation yet, so. 0:14:12.490 --> 0:14:13.570 Be really clear with it. 0:14:14.090 --> 0:14:17.090 What you can also do, and this would be my 0:14:17.290 --> 0:14:21.010 favorite add on to any prompt is get it to 0:14:21.130 --> 0:14:25.050 ask you questions. So say something like, please ask me 0:14:25.170 --> 0:14:28.530 any questions you need to be ninety five percent confident 0:14:28.690 --> 0:14:32.930 in doing a great job because it's going to have gaps, 0:14:33.330 --> 0:14:36.890 and why not let it guide you in helping it 0:14:36.930 --> 0:14:38.290 fill in its gaps. 0:14:38.610 --> 0:14:40.570 I am going to pause you there because I agree 0:14:40.690 --> 0:14:42.610 if you are still listening to this podcast, even though 0:14:42.610 --> 0:14:44.890 I told you the most important point was before around 0:14:44.970 --> 0:14:48.170 voice mode, I actually lie because this is another important point, 0:14:48.930 --> 0:14:52.130 flipping it and saying you ask me the questions and 0:14:52.170 --> 0:14:55.010 I'll feed you more information. So that line you had 0:14:55.650 --> 0:14:58.730 ask me clarifying questions. Until you're ninety five percent confident, 0:14:58.770 --> 0:15:02.090 you can you know complete the task successfully. That is 0:15:02.130 --> 0:15:05.130 so important and that has helped me so much because 0:15:05.130 --> 0:15:07.770 a lot of time, it's not just that you want 0:15:07.770 --> 0:15:10.130 the AI to just produce this perfect thing for you. 0:15:10.130 --> 0:15:12.090 You sort of just need it to help you organize 0:15:12.130 --> 0:15:14.130 your thoughts and I think getting it to ask you 0:15:14.250 --> 0:15:16.690 question is a really good way to do that. So 0:15:16.930 --> 0:15:19.210 let me just replay this because this is I mean, 0:15:19.250 --> 0:15:21.930 I thought I was pretty good, but this has already 0:15:21.930 --> 0:15:23.490 helped me. So, you know, what is the goal of 0:15:23.530 --> 0:15:25.530 the task you're trying to do, give it the context 0:15:25.610 --> 0:15:27.530 who you're talking to, what you want them to know, 0:15:27.970 --> 0:15:29.290 you know what they're going to get out of it 0:15:29.410 --> 0:15:31.170 kind of thing. And would you even put in there 0:15:31.210 --> 0:15:34.970 amount the context around like the format or is that 0:15:35.010 --> 0:15:36.570 coming later, like in terms of the output, like I 0:15:36.610 --> 0:15:38.930 want it to be ten minutes long, or when does 0:15:38.970 --> 0:15:39.450 that come in? 0:15:39.890 --> 0:15:43.210 Yeah, So format is good to stay upfront because then 0:15:43.290 --> 0:15:46.090 if you're working with it to create a structure, it 0:15:46.130 --> 0:15:49.170 can know that like a ten minute update presentation is 0:15:49.210 --> 0:15:52.850 going to be very different from a sixty minute in 0:15:53.090 --> 0:15:55.770 depth educational presentation, for example. 0:15:55.810 --> 0:15:57.770 You'd almost put that in the goal then maybe like 0:15:57.930 --> 0:16:01.530 your goal is to presentation that's ten minutes long. Okay, cool, Yeah, exactly. 0:16:02.210 --> 0:16:05.170 So once you've got to ask you questions and you 0:16:05.210 --> 0:16:07.410 feel in the gaps for it, it's got context, it 0:16:07.450 --> 0:16:10.010 knows the tasks that we're trying to achieve the goal. 0:16:10.730 --> 0:16:12.890 Then what you're going to ask it to do is 0:16:13.130 --> 0:16:16.650 essentially build out the structure so that you're happy with 0:16:16.690 --> 0:16:19.610 the structure you know, and it might be you know, introduction, 0:16:19.970 --> 0:16:21.530 and then it might be you know, point one point 0:16:21.570 --> 0:16:24.250 two point three and then some sort of closing, like 0:16:24.290 --> 0:16:26.450 a very basic structure. It probably won't be that, but 0:16:26.530 --> 0:16:29.690 let's use that as an example. So once you're happy 0:16:29.770 --> 0:16:32.490 and you've kind of got that scaffolding, if you like, 0:16:32.810 --> 0:16:36.330 for the overall structure of the output, then you want 0:16:36.330 --> 0:16:39.570 to prompt the AI to build out each section with you. 0:16:39.890 --> 0:16:43.010 So once you're happy with the scaffolding, I would then 0:16:43.130 --> 0:16:46.730 be saying, okay, let's work on the first section. Can 0:16:46.810 --> 0:16:50.290 you help me build out this introduction, And you're potentially 0:16:50.290 --> 0:16:53.330 feeding it with more details or more context around the 0:16:53.330 --> 0:16:56.250 introduction and what it needs to contain, and then basically 0:16:56.290 --> 0:17:00.850 repeating that for every section or every chunk of the task. 0:17:01.330 --> 0:17:02.690 It will stop you. 0:17:02.450 --> 0:17:06.169 Having to undo and redo and edit prompts and make 0:17:06.210 --> 0:17:08.890 a big mess of things. This is exactly the process 0:17:08.889 --> 0:17:10.970 that I use when I'm using THEAI to work on 0:17:11.010 --> 0:17:12.450 something quite long or complex. 0:17:12.690 --> 0:17:14.490 I love this, and for anyone listening, we're going to 0:17:14.530 --> 0:17:17.689 put all of these prompts in the newsletter, so just 0:17:17.730 --> 0:17:19.410 make sure you're signed up. Is in links in the 0:17:19.450 --> 0:17:22.090 show notes. But this is so good because what you're 0:17:22.130 --> 0:17:24.850 saying is to that gun slinger method that you mentioned earlier. 0:17:25.090 --> 0:17:28.450 I'm just thinking about today. I was prompting AI to 0:17:28.650 --> 0:17:32.369 help me. It was actually helping me prep a podcast episode, 0:17:32.530 --> 0:17:34.730 and I asked it to give me three examples based 0:17:34.730 --> 0:17:36.369 on these three points that I gave, and then I 0:17:36.410 --> 0:17:38.609 said make it funnier, and then I said, now make 0:17:38.650 --> 0:17:40.490 it shorter, and then I said, now give me an 0:17:40.490 --> 0:17:43.250 example for a manager. And it just progressively got worse 0:17:43.290 --> 0:17:45.410 and worse as I sort of went down. Not to 0:17:45.450 --> 0:17:47.250 say you can't do that, because I think refining it 0:17:47.290 --> 0:17:49.810 sometimes is helpful, so like, you know, rewrite this to 0:17:49.850 --> 0:17:52.530 make it more concise or whatever. But sometimes you know, 0:17:52.609 --> 0:17:55.210 in just messing with it, the output just gets worse 0:17:55.210 --> 0:17:57.409 and worse. I've noticed that, so I think taking a 0:17:57.450 --> 0:18:01.050 pause to really architect your prompt at the start is 0:18:01.130 --> 0:18:01.850 really helpful. 0:18:02.010 --> 0:18:04.770 You've brought up a really important point that I find 0:18:04.970 --> 0:18:08.330 most people don't know about. If you have felt that 0:18:08.370 --> 0:18:11.010 way like you felt today, where it just seemed like 0:18:11.010 --> 0:18:15.290 the AI was getting stupider, which is really weird because hey, 0:18:15.370 --> 0:18:16.130 it's software. 0:18:16.210 --> 0:18:20.290 Software doesn't get stupider. It actually does. So the AI 0:18:20.930 --> 0:18:21.929 can't learn. 0:18:22.090 --> 0:18:24.689 And if you think of its memory and why and 0:18:24.770 --> 0:18:27.129 when you need to start a new thread or like 0:18:27.330 --> 0:18:30.810 a new chat if you like, it's because the AI 0:18:30.970 --> 0:18:34.010 can only remember so much. If you think about, like 0:18:34.490 --> 0:18:39.010 if say you were reading a multi page document, Let's 0:18:39.010 --> 0:18:42.010 say it's a five page document, why the AI gets 0:18:42.090 --> 0:18:45.770 dumber is because it can remember about a page or two, 0:18:45.890 --> 0:18:49.570 but then it starts to forget. And so what's important there. 0:18:49.650 --> 0:18:52.490 If you were like having that experience where the AI 0:18:52.810 --> 0:18:55.689 seems to be getting dumber, you probably at the end 0:18:55.730 --> 0:18:57.689