Speaker 1: Picture this. You're staring at chat GPT, wondering if you're
Speaker 1: barely scratching the surface of what's possible. Maybe you've dabbled
Speaker 1: with generating a few emails, or perhaps you're already using
Speaker 1: it daily, but like most of us, there's that nagging
Speaker 1: feeling you could be doing so much more. At south
Speaker 1: By Southwest, Sydney last year, I remember futurist Brian Johnson
Speaker 1: dropped a truth bomb that stuck with me. He said,
Speaker 1: AI is not taking your job. It's a human who
Speaker 1: is using AI who's taking your job. That hit home
Speaker 1: and for the past two years I have been living
Speaker 1: and breathing jen Ai, making it an essential part of
Speaker 1: my toolkit, and through my consultancy Inventium, I've seen firsthand
Speaker 1: how proper AI training that we've been doing with many
Speaker 1: of our clients can transform the way people work. That
Speaker 1: is why I'm thrilled to bring you something special over
Speaker 1: the next four tuesdays, I am going to be joined
Speaker 1: by Inventium's resident at Genai Guru Neo Applin, and together
Speaker 1: we'll share some game changing tips that will help you
Speaker 1: level up how you use Genai. Just quickly, before we
Speaker 1: get into today's episode if you want to go defilt
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Speaker 1: to check it out and get started today. Welcome to
Speaker 1: How I Work, a show about habits, rituals, and strategies
Speaker 1: for optimizing your day. I'm your host, doctor Amantha Imber.
Speaker 1: So many people assume that Jenai should just get it
Speaker 1: right from the start. What is the biggest misconception about
Speaker 1: how Ai understands prompts.
Speaker 2: The biggest misconception is actually that Jenai will get it
Speaker 2: right from the start and it will understand exactly what
Speaker 2: you really want to achieve from the words you've actually
Speaker 2: written within that prompt, so it will make an assumption
Speaker 2: trying to make it easier for you. So you need
Speaker 2: to give the context behind what you're trying to achieve
Speaker 2: and all the backgrounds so it can do a great job.
Speaker 2: And so the misconception is unless you that it will
Speaker 2: give that great answer without you giving all that background.
Speaker 1: So there's quite a counterintuitive approach that you said in
Speaker 1: terms of getting Ai to interview us instead of just
Speaker 1: giving it instructions. So can you tell me a bit
Speaker 1: about how this works and why it is so effective.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like using a Jenai like a person. So
Speaker 2: if you've got a work colleague or you've got an
Speaker 2: expert you've brought in to do something, you don't just say, hey,
Speaker 2: look i'd like you to do this and then just
Speaker 2: let them go. There's always a conversation involved, so they're
Speaker 2: asking what you wanted to achieve, what the background is.
Speaker 2: They'll ask you clarifying questions about it. Treating Jenai like
Speaker 2: that expert or like someone within your team changes the
Speaker 2: mindset of you, the person working with Jenai, so that
Speaker 2: it'll then have a conversation with you so you can
Speaker 2: give the information to it. That way, you don't have
Speaker 2: to feel like you're writing a massive tome before you
Speaker 2: put a prompt in so you can say, hey, look,
Speaker 2: ask me as many questions as you need so you
Speaker 2: can do a great job. And then we've got those
Speaker 2: questions going with a conversation going, then it understands the
Speaker 2: background and it'll do a much better because of it.
Speaker 1: So let's take a real world example. Say I'm writing
Speaker 1: a sales email to a prospect. How would you suggest
Speaker 1: that I prompt AI in order to get the best
Speaker 1: results to get this amazing sales email.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, So the first thing I do is say,
Speaker 2: these are the goals that I want to achieve with
Speaker 2: this sales email. Don't go straight to the sales email
Speaker 2: content itself. The reason for that is that GENAI then
Speaker 2: knows loosely what the outcome needs to fulfill, what the
Speaker 2: goals that it needs to fulfill are. Then tell it
Speaker 2: what you're wanting to achieve. Look, I want a sales
Speaker 2: email with these and these and these information in it.
Speaker 2: And then you'll say, hey, before you do any work,
Speaker 2: don't do any work, But before you do any work,
Speaker 2: what I want you to do is ask me is
Speaker 2: many clarifying questions that you need until you're ninety five
Speaker 2: percent confident that you can do a job right now,
Speaker 2: people ask me why ninety five percent, And it's about
Speaker 2: a problem with English language, Like if you say I
Speaker 2: want you to be kind of confident or mostly confident,
Speaker 2: how confident is that? Whereas if you're really specific and
Speaker 2: you're saying ninety five percent confident, it means don't ask
Speaker 2: me a thousand questions, ask me enough questions until you've
Speaker 2: got a good background and you feel very confident you
Speaker 2: can do the job right, So ask me as many
Speaker 2: questions as you as you need so you're ninety five
Speaker 2: percent confident in getting the job done well.
Speaker 1: So what kind of questions does the AI tend to
Speaker 1: ask when we use this technique.
Speaker 2: It's a blend of kind of one oh one questions
Speaker 2: and really detailed ones, so it's clarifying on the goals
Speaker 2: and things like audience and things like that. It'll ask,
Speaker 2: but it will also ask particular specific things about the
Speaker 2: topic you've got. So if it's a sales style example
Speaker 2: we're going through, for example, it will ask questions on
Speaker 2: the client, the client's problem. It'll may ask questions on
Speaker 2: the budget, even those kind of things, because it wants
Speaker 2: to have a full basis of all the background so
Speaker 2: it can give you the best result.
Speaker 1: What happens if the AI asks me a question that
Speaker 1: I just don't know how to answer, what should I do?
Speaker 2: Yeah, you got two choices there. One is you can
Speaker 2: say I'm not sure and that's enough and that's fine,
Speaker 2: there's no problems with that. The other one I use
Speaker 2: a lot is I'm not sure, but I would like
Speaker 2: some suggestions on different avenues. We can go here, and
Speaker 2: I want you to give me those suggestions, and so
Speaker 2: then it'll know that it has another conversation and other
Speaker 2: round of questions and answers for you.
Speaker 1: So is it important to add specific areas for the
Speaker 1: AI to probe, like, you know, around what's my brand
Speaker 1: voice or industry terminology for example. That's up to you.
Speaker 2: I'd say that for probably fifty percent of the time,
Speaker 2: I just say the ninety five percent confidence and that's enough.
Speaker 2: But other times, when I'm working on something very specific,
Speaker 2: I will get it to do questions in a very
Speaker 2: specific area, particularly if i'm so if it's a deep analysis,
Speaker 2: then it might be I want you to ask questions
Speaker 2: in this particular direction so I know that I've got
Speaker 2: the analysis right. So or it might be for writing
Speaker 2: it will be very much on the style or tone,
Speaker 2: making sure that that matches my audience, those kind of things.
Speaker 1: And is there a limit to how many rounds of
Speaker 1: Q and A we should go through or like, you know,
Speaker 1: because I feel like I could just keep refining and
Speaker 1: refining until we hit that ninety five percent confidence level.
Speaker 1: But how many rounds am I going through?
Speaker 2: Up to you, And it really depends on the work
Speaker 2: you're doing. What I've found is that a lot of
Speaker 2: the Jenai will just ask that one round of questions,
Speaker 2: you answer it, and then it'll just go great and done.
Speaker 2: What I've found is if I get the responses back
Speaker 2: from the Jenai and I've got a bit of a
Speaker 2: gut feeling that potentially it may not know everything, or
Speaker 2: potentially it might be going in a different direction, what
Speaker 2: I'll do then I'll say, do you have any more questions?
Speaker 2: So it's actually you need to prompt it more to
Speaker 2: ask you questions that it's unlikely that it'll just want
Speaker 2: to ask questions forever and ever. So it's more of
Speaker 2: a work hard to get more questions than get fewer.
Speaker 1: Okay, So for someone listening today who wants to try
Speaker 1: this technique, what is one simple way to just get started.
Speaker 2: Yeah, ask your prompt, and then at the bottom of
Speaker 2: you prompt, just the normal prompt you'd put in, So
Speaker 2: don't worry about the prompt, just do your normal work there,
Speaker 2: and then at the bottom you say, before you respond,
Speaker 2: ask me any questions you've got until you're ninety five
Speaker 2: percent confident in doing a great job. That's it.
Speaker 1: I love that and I personally use this technique multiple
Speaker 1: times a day. It's completely transformed how I use Jenai.
Speaker 1: So I hope that for people listening that you have
Speaker 1: the confidence now to try and apply this today. If
Speaker 1: you're keen to learn even more Genai tricks and hacks,
Speaker 1: check out Inventium's Genai Productivity System. It's a self faced
Speaker 1: course to transform you from a Jenai dabbler to jenaipro
Speaker 1: in just a few hours. Head to inventium dot com
Speaker 1: a forward slash jnai to check it out and get
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Speaker 1: And Nation. A big thank you to Martin Nimber for
Speaker 1: doing the sound mix,