Start Letting AI Reveal You Instead of Replace You

The paid subscriptions available for AI chat bots are immensely better than the free tiers. The AI hype raining down on us is not the result of the free tier experience, rather, it comes from paid tier individuals discovering what actually makes AI most effective. This discovery grants users the elixir of unprecedented growth opportunities, let me explain why.

People tend to have an AI “come to Jesus” moment when experiencing two things in succession, 1. moving into the paid tier 2. finally applying a capable AI in a manor that actually moves the needle in your business or daily life. People who move through these steps will almost certainly be net promoters of AI.

These new-comers of the AI faith quickly transition into the exploratory phase of AI adoption where anything and everything can be automated by AI. This is when users make the mistake of trying to have AI replace them, trying to eliminate whatever work comes across their desk, so they can twiddle their thumbs, or doom scroll instead. Let me explain why this gets them nowhere.

Every aha moment I’ve had with AI has come from augmenting my skillset with AI, not replacing it. My mind has the value, AI needs to help me get it out. A website made by AI sucks… A website made in cooperation with you and your existing web development skills is insanely good. I’m not talking about letting the AI do everything, I’m talking about a cooperation between you and the AI, physically building the website together. I’ll illuminate this with an example of an AI product from a developer who has caught on to this.

I recently started using this tool called ‘Little Moments’ by Jaryd from https://www.the-diff.com/. It’s an experimental project on helping humans create meaningful journal entries. This app prompts you with a random keyword everyday, and your responsibility is to write about a moment in your life that the keyword reminds you of.

Every entry you make is added to a dataset the AI has access to. The AI maps out your ‘Little Moments’ and provides you with beautifully written journal entries you can share with family and friends.

The best part about this process is how the AI responds to your shared moment. Once you write down the moment that came to mind based on the keyword, the AI asks you a meaningful follow up question based on your input, like “What was the first thought that went through your head after stepping on the dog poop while barefoot?”. The answer to the follow up question provides the umph the journal entry needs to resonate with others. The AI then seamlessly integrates your follow up answer into the original entry and pins it to your memory board.

My journal entries actually have impact now, I send them to my wife who enjoys reading them because she learns things about me that would not come up in conversation naturally. This is a perfect example of how AI should augment your ability, not replace it. Those journal entries would suck if the AI wrote them for me, it’s the human element that produces the best output.

The AI takes a perfectly mundane moment from your life, and asks a meaningful follow up question about a specific detail in that moment to produce a beautiful story. The app itself has shown me how beautiful each moment is that we have. AI was the guide, my unique human experience brought forth the content.

This shows you how AI is most effective. It is not an all knowing being that can magically bring into existence anything you ask it to. It is an extension of human memory with the ability to extract applicable information on demand. Use it with this in mind and you will maximize your existing human potential because that is what truly matters, not AI.

What You’re Hearing

When I created this song I was heavily influenced by Mathbonus. Lot’s of high-hats and percussion with delay effects. I was staying at a house in Cold Stream British Columbia, probably a 10 minute drive from Vernon, BC. At the time I was working as a helper for a bee farmer, or more professionally known as an apiarist. I had my midi controller and my PC at the house with me. I installed studio one and some native instruments VSTs and let my mind run. When I wasn’t feeding bees pollen packs I was creating music, this is the result.