JD Trask: Unpacking the AI Hype Cycle

JD runs us through how to experiment with AI at work. Here’s the summary:

Just do it - “AI is not just for nerds. That's one of the huge mistakes that I've seen some organisations make. It's going to affect everybody. It's like pretending in the 90s that the internet would only affect software developers. This is going to affect everybody. So we need to take everybody on the journey.”

Form AI habits - ““GPT4.0 is a lot better than the free version. GPT4.0 is where you can upload like a CSV and ask questions. It's twenty dollars a month. Seriously, just pay for it.”

Free up your team for what’s most important - “What you want to do is be able to say hey, we're a 20 person company, a 30 person company, or a 50 person company. But we can operate as [equivalent to] a 10,000 person company now. That is the great democratizer.”

Don’t forget metrics - “I would fully anticipate that in a business that is able to dramatically leverage AI that the revenue per employee skyrockets. You know, when we look at ‘mega-techs’, they're typically in the sort of $1 to $2 million of revenue per employee. We think we're probably looking at a future where you're going to see the first billionaire, that was a one man band, right, because you can leverage these systems and scale up a person substantially.”