From the course: AI Basics: What Every Professional Needs to Know

Ignore the hype

From the course: AI Basics: What Every Professional Needs to Know

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Ignore the hype

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While I'm passionate about AI and the possibilities of what can be done with it, I'm also here to ask you to look at all that stuff that's in your feed about AI and tell you to ignore it. That will be the first step in peeling away the hype and myth around AI to bring you to a strong and effective place where you can be a trusted advisor around the realities and the possibilities of artificial intelligence. Beyond that pixie dust sold by influencers to pad their stats, there's a serious danger. Misinformation that creates a false sense of what's possible or a fear that paralyzes you from doing what's right. People treat AI like it's this mystical force. With a little AI magic, suddenly your business is profitable, your emails are written, and you never have to work again. That's the hype, and the hype is dangerous because it does set you up for disappointment. It makes you think that you're missing out when in reality, you are in the right place at the right time to have a major impact. My goal is to open your eyes to the truth and remove that hype so that you can see the reality and you will understand those gears that are turning underneath the machine. Because AI is not magic. It's software, it's math, it's data. When you understand how the trick is done, it does not make it any less impressive. In fact, I think it makes it more incredible. But more importantly, it makes it manageable. and it makes it something that you can actually use without being afraid of it or having missed that expectations about problems that it can or can't solve.

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