In today’s episode, are you struggling to get truly valuable results from generative AI? You’ll learn why AI alone is just a shiny appliance without the right ingredients – your data. To truly leverage AI’s power, you’ll benefit from understanding how to feed it your specific data to get personalized and impactful outputs. Tune in to discover how to transform AI from a generic tool into a powerful asset tailored to your unique needs.
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Appliances without ingredients are just decor.
Kurt Kegel over on LinkedIn pointed out something that has been the case with gender of AI since the beginning. All AI needs data. And yes, generative AI models have been trained on enormous amounts of data. However, they still have a very public knowledge set. For many of the use cases that we want to use generative AI for, it doesn’t just need data. It needs our data. It needs data that’s specific to us. You know, the average model today has been trained on five to 15 trillion tokens, which is the equivalent of like three to 10 trillion words, which is like a bookshelf of text-only books that wraps around the equator twice. That’s how much text has been trained on, but very little of that huge data set is about you. And if there’s one thing, one enduring truth, about ourselves, about everything, it is that we very much care about us, right? We all have main character syndrome, which means that if you want generative AI to create great results for you, you have to give it the data.
Here’s a real simple example. Suppose you want to write more engaging LinkedIn blog, LinkedIn posts. How would you do that? Well, you could just go and ask the gender of AI tool of your choice. Hey, Gemini, hey, Claude, hey, Chat. How do I make this LinkedIn post more engaging? That’s not going to be so helpful. You’re not going to get great results out of that. You’re going to get fairly generic results because it’s not specific to you.
How would you do it? Take the profiles of the people who engage with your last three posts. Give those profiles to a generative AI tool along with your content and then have the tool create a composite personality, like a persona of those people, and then ask the tool to validate your LinkedIn post idea. Maybe you have this idea for a post, and you’re like, hey, I wonder if this is a good idea, if I should write about this. You give it to that composite persona and say, would my composite persona like this? What would they like? What would they think is missing from this? What did I get wrong? And what comes back is phenomenal. It’s targeted. It’s tailored for you, to you, about you. And it’s keyed in on you and the people that you have data for.
This is critical across the board on all uses of AI. It’s not just about making stuff. A lot of people are using it to make stuff. It’s about making things that reflect you. AI is a tool. It’s an appliance. And like a kitchen, if you’ve got no chef, if you got no ingredients, you got no recipes, then all those appliances are just decor. They may be nice decor. They may be great for showing off your status. Like, hey, let’s check out this shiny, you know, stainless steel appliance. But in terms of putting food on the table when you’re hungry, they’re not helpful by themselves. You can’t eat a blender. I mean, you can, but you shouldn’t. The same is true of AI. AI by itself, without data, without process, without you and your customers, is just a shiny object on the counter.
So, two questions to think about. Number one, what data do you have that you could use as an ingredient with AI to get better results out of it? Question two. What data do only you have—only you have—that you could use as a competitive advantage with generative AI that other people don’t have? Give that some thought because if you follow that line of thinking, you will find out how to make these tools work really well for you.
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