In today’s episode, you’ll explore what truly defines advanced AI usage, moving beyond the basics of tools like ChatGPT. You’ll learn to distinguish between beginner, intermediate, and advanced applications, understanding that advanced AI involves tackling more complex problems, such as integrating AI into enterprise-level systems using APIs and developer consoles. You’ll benefit from insights on how to progress from simple prompt engineering to leveraging AI for tasks like processing large databases or developing an ideal customer profile from millions of CRM records. If you want to elevate your AI skills, this episode will guide you toward embracing more challenging projects and advancing your personal and professional growth in the AI field.
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In today’s episode, let’s talk about advanced AI. What does advanced AI look like? This is such a challenging question because terms like beginner and intermediate and advanced are relative to our experience. What’s beginner for you might be advanced to me. Maybe you are an advanced tennis player and you are so good at tennis that everything basic is easy for you. And I’m like, “How do I even hold this racket?” What’s beginner for you might be advanced for me. What’s beginner for me might be advanced for you.
So, one way to help disambiguate this is to think about the level of skill required. Beginner use cases have the lowest level of proficiency required. A tool like ChatGPT, for example, just requires you to talk to it. There’s no expertise required to at least be able to use it. Yes, things like prompt engineering techniques and prompt optimization can dramatically increase the quality of your outputs. We’ve talked a lot about that. But at the end of the day, most people are still using it like a word processor, and that’s okay. That’s beginning level and there’s nothing wrong with that.
At an intermediate level, you start exploring the ecosystem around the tool, looking at variations of it, tools like clawed projects, Gemini gems, and custom GPTs as a start or no-code integrations with generative AI to expand its capabilities beyond what you can do in a chat window. That’s intermediate. Great ways to start finding more value from AI. Beyond the individual level, you start building mini-apps within the tool that you use. A custom GPT is still part of ChatGPT, but it’s a more advanced use case. It’s a more complex use case. So, what does advanced AI look like? Instead of sticking strictly to the basic form or variations of the basic form, you leave the basic form behind, you leave the familiar behind. You scale up to organizations and enterprises. You head into into practices and disciplines like developer consoles, like APIs.
Look at, for example, the options available in a tool like IBM Watson X, vectorizing document stores, generating synthetic data at scale, tuning foundation models. If you look inside a tool, for example, like Google’s Vertex, Vertex or Amazon’s AWS, Vertex is a bewildering place. The choices that you have. In fact, let me go ahead and pull up a Vertex environment here because I think it’s a useful thing to see. Let’s go ahead and switch to here. Let’s go into all products. Let’s go to artificial intelligence and look in artificial intelligence in the Vertex AI platform. Look at all the things that are in here. This is a bewildering number of choices.
You are in the land of code and APIs, where you can integrate AI seamlessly into your other tools and scale it to enterprise levels with all the joys of enterprise management like governance and policy and integrated access management, IAM. But if you look around in here, you see this, there’s chat, there’s vision capabilities. You have far more choices for generating images and the models that you can use. This is the more advanced stuff. Here’s the thing about beginner, intermediate, and advanced. Some, one of the things that I learned in the martial arts is that beginner doesn’t mean easy necessarily. It means the most, the problems that you have to solve that are right in front of you. The more advanced a use case, the tougher the problems are to solve. You don’t need advanced techniques to write a blog post with generative AI. That’s a very simple problem to solve. You need advanced techniques to classify and process a million-row database or extract an ideal customer profile from two million CRM records. The more advanced, the tougher the problems are to solve. President Barack Obama famously once said that nothing easy ever arrives on the president’s desk. All the easy stuff is handled by other people at lower levels.
All the easy stuff is taken care of. So, the only thing that arrives there is that is the tough stuff. And the same is true in AI expertise. Everyone in their cousin can be an AI prompter with varying levels of success. And there’s nothing wrong with that. But prompting is just a tiny portion of what the overall ecosystem of AI requires to really unlock all of its value. Here’s an important tip. If the problems you face, you’re doing AI, aren’t getting more difficult, that’s a sign that your skill building has stagnated.
The easiest way to jumpstart your journey and to level up is to dive into deeper waters, sign up for a free account in one of the developer portals, start taking the built-in tutorials, figure out what all these buttons do and all these switches and all these, these options. What does that thing do? How do I use it? When would I use it? Why would I use it? Talk to AI itself about solutions you could be. Build that go past prompts and GBTs and into true software development. If you do that, you will find your way back on the road to personal and professional development and growth. Thanks for tuning in.
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