Empower Teams to Experiment for AI-Driven Innovation

Key Quotes

"The reality is anybody that's used Google in the last few years when you type in restaurants near and then it puts me or the town that you're in that's artificial intelligence it's just a different wavelength of it right then to something we know that's right."

Chris Duprey argues that artificial intelligence is not a new or overly technical concept for most people. He uses the familiar example of Google search results to illustrate that AI is already integrated into daily life, making it less intimidating. This perspective aims to demystify AI for a broader audience.

"So the theme that i think a lot of folks need to hear is to give your employees permission to be curious right so that's the first thing i just heard permission to be curious go try right but number two and i know when we went through when i went through the coaching program with you when you were guiding me through the they ask you answer certification process we did a lot of role playing and sharing and so the other thing you just said is beyond just giving folks permission to be curious is once you learn something don't have it be isolated in your mind and at your desk let's bring it out let's share it and let's teach right."

Chris Duprey highlights two crucial principles for organizations adopting AI: empowering employees with permission to explore and encouraging the sharing of discovered knowledge. He emphasizes that innovation with AI comes not just from individual experimentation but also from collective learning and teaching within the team. This approach fosters a collaborative environment for AI integration.

"And so all of this just comes back to if you're a business leader who is like how do i even get started you have to understand the what's possible you have to understand the what's possible and then you need to take it to your team and they need to understand before we go we're going to run all these experiments we're going to do all this stuff you need to educate them on what artificial intelligence is and how you think it may be able to help your organization and then you have to come up with how are we going to run experiments and what are our guidelines that's business leaders that's where your heads need to be not not in the minutia yet get past that and you're you're then going to start playing a game of oh wow i didn't know my team could figure things out like this."

Chris Duprey advises business leaders that their primary role in AI adoption is to understand the potential applications and then educate their teams. He stresses that leaders should focus on setting guidelines and fostering experimentation rather than getting bogged down in the technical details. This strategic approach allows teams to discover practical uses for AI, leading to unexpected innovations.

"So it would take me what's called it let's just call it 20 minutes to get something that would be worth typing like worth posting that you know people would comment on that would actually help me or or even just organizing and simplify with clarity what it is you're trying to say right so here's the deal so that would take me like 20 minutes well i gave chatgpt three or four of my posts that were good like that said learn my style and now i just stream of consciousness type in and say generate you know hey let's write another post and i put it all in and it generates in that tone and in that thing and it takes my ramblings into a message that's built out the way that i've built it out when i've taken the time but so what does that say that saves me about 19 minutes every day."

Chris Duprey shares a personal anecdote about using ChatGPT to streamline his content creation process. By training the AI on his existing posts, he can now generate new content in his style much faster than before. This demonstrates how AI can significantly increase efficiency by automating repetitive tasks, freeing up valuable time.