Sheesh there are some shonks out there offering workshops, retreats and consulting packages in using AI.
My advice is don’t pay anything. Instead, take a step, and then another, and another. Fall over. Learn. Get up. Take another step. Pretty soon, you’ll be running.
Where AI is at today is not a destination. We are barely at the first stop on a long journey into a future and no one today is an expert on that future.
Anyone who tells you they have the secret sauce is just selling you a bottle of their own snake oil. The real secret is there is no secret. Just the graft. Just the curiosity.
The “gurus” selling you a weekend workshop are probably only a few chapters ahead of you. The landscape is changing so fast that any manual they print is out of date by the time the ink is dry. Don’t buy their map. Draw your own. It’ll be a mess, for sure. But it’ll be yours, and it’ll lead somewhere far more interesting.
So go on, be curious. Muck around. Break things. That’s how you’ll get good, not by lining someone else’s pockets. Give it a report, a business challenge, a question on your mind, a copy of your business plan, and ask what do you think?
The more you use it, the more you learn, and the more useful it becomes.
Do all this for free.
Don’t pay for a course, a workshop or a retreat. I saw one AI retreat in Australia promoted recently costing thousands for content and context that is available for free. Nice work if you can get it.
Beware. There are people making a ton of cash because AI feels so far removed what many know and understand. Clever marketers are leveraging ignorance for their own profit. Don’t do it!
Go on, try ChatGPT or Google Gemini now for free. Once you have played with them there are other tools you can use, plenty are free, and worth it.
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Footnote: yes I have written a bit here about the AI tools embedded in the Tower Systems newsagency software. That’s different. It’s built in, included, ready for immediate use without the need for training, a course, a workshop or a retreat, no need to pay extra.