This Is What I Did with AI

Are you an AI optimist like me? Let’s share how we’re using AI as a tool for creators.

I’m reviewing notes from a December 2022 interview with a ghostwriting client; our conversation topic makes me laugh.

“Steve, I know you’re a tech geek like me,” the client says near the end of our meeting. “Have you been paying attention to ChatGPT?”

I’m laughing when I read the interview transcript because we’re only seven months following the ChatGPT prototype launch and its record-setting sprint toward 100 million users within two months. Implementing GenAI is a priority for business leaders. A growing list of ChatGPT competitors like Google Bard, Tome, Claude 2 from Anthropic, and the newly released LLaMA Chatbot from Meta, is transforming large language models from the domain of tech researchers to mainstream consumers.

It’s exciting to experience the mainstreaming of GenAI and watch different consumers interact with AI tech differently. One more thing stands out from that December 2022 client conversation about GenAI. From day one of our GenAI era, I’m describing ChatGPT as a tool for creators.

“To me, tech is a tool, “I share with my client. “…, I don’t look at OpenAI and say, hey, I’m becoming irrelevant as a content creator. I see it as a tool I can use to do work better. I never see technology as…