Presentation on - AI-Powered Productivity: Unlocking the Potential of ChatGPT and Other Tools in your Training Business

 Notes from the presentation organised by Skills Education PD (Australia) with Tracy Sheen on zoom.

Approached AI from a small business perspective. Shared popular AI tools along with the websites which up-to-dates onAI apps/platforms. 

Began with a demonstration of ChatGPT. Assured everyone that AI has been around quite a long time but not as visible as with Chat GPT. Currently, available in the US of A, upgrade for US$20 a month provides quicker access at all time. Upgrades rolled out across all countries over the next few weeks. Consensus across the audience was that they would not pay for the service.

Of interest during the demonstration, is the iterative process of providing greater specificity with each prompt, to allow for generation of more refined output at each pass. Also, to use the content in several contexts - as per marketing spiel, suggest course names, as a blog, convert to email etc. Posits the need to focus on critical thinking to come up with the right prompts and then to use the right parameters to refine the outputs to meet envisaged quality/usability etc. of the product. ChatGPT's strength is to be a nudge/scaffolding tool to get things started.

Canva 'Magic Write'  provided as an example by one of the participants. Only available for paid educational account users. Similar to ChatGPT which works within a document. 

Grammarly or Quillbot have basic tools with more functions for the paid version provide further refinement to the outputs generated by ChatGPT. 

Cody provides the ability to collate and work on organisational / business documents. A database of company documents, policies, web content etc. can be drawn on to provide customised business documents.

Futurepedia and Futuretools collate AI apps / platforms as they are launched, have search tools to help find specific AI tools and archives AI related news. Many image and video AI generators along with the usual text generators. 

Recommends synthesia (paid subscription) as a video generator, especially if your video needs a customised avatar to present content. Customisation of gender, race, language, accent and add background music! Another option is pictory

otter.ai is a voice meeting notes and transcription tool suggested.

So, it is now possible to have AI generated content, presented by an AI generated avatar on an AI created video and have the video transcript AI generated as well. 

As always, what is the objective and how can AI be used to trigger creativity, save time / increase productivity, and generate content. Good session with lots of participation from everyone attending.