Severin Sorensen ★

Staying ahead of AI trends is crucial. Instead of just telling you what's next, I suggest using AI to help uncover insights. Here’s a practical approach: Prompt: “For my industry [insert industry], research, analyze, and rank the 10 ways AI is likely to enhance or disrupt my industry.” Then, push further: “Those are obvious. What are 10 additional ways AI might impact my industry that others haven’t thought about?” Pick an interesting idea and ask AI: “Tell me more about this. How does it apply? What might it look like in my industry? Then ask, provide a step-wise instruction to explore this deeply.” By engaging AI this way, you shape the future of technology, uncovering innovative possibilities beyond the obvious. Watch the magic happen!

AI appears limitless in what it can do, but the key is knowing where to focus—where to place your attention. Ponder the words, "Know thyself." Identify your interests, assess market opportunities, and evaluate where AI can have the most impact. Since GenAI, I've seen writers creating 48x faster, artists producing 40x more consistently, marketers getting 37x more engagement, and engineers coding 20x quicker. These gains aren't uniform, and individual results vary. AI is in demand across industries. Understand your situation, background, and abilities. Experiment quickly, fail fast, and iterate to innovate. Balancing ambition with practical steps ensures a rewarding AI journey. Be a lifetime learner. And remember, "attention is all you need."

Personalizing AI for your training needs can significantly enhance your learning journey. As Benjamin Franklin said, "Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I may remember. Involve me and I learn." Here's my advice: Use AI to create a customized learning roadmap and seek assistance with unfamiliar concepts. Regularly ask AI for feedback on your progress. A useful technique is to prompt, "How did I do?" and request an assessment of your performance on a 5.0 scale. Additionally, consider creating your own wiki-like directory of your best prompts, learnings, lessons learned, and templates. This will accelerate your prompt discoveries in the future. Balancing ambition with practical, personalized steps ensures a rewarding AI learning experience.

Yes, learning how to prompt is essential and knowing Python will help your precision and outcomes. However, in today's AI landscape, executives should focus on leveraging AI to augment their core competencies in their workplace domains, thereby harnessing their imagination and acumen with skillful prompting. As Albert Einstein said, "The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination." It will soon be the case that few need know how to code, as AI is increasingly doing this for you. However, where you as an executive can shine is in your ability to capture your domain experience and guide AI to help you achieve better outcomes, drawing from the seeds of your imagination and creativity. #AI #ExecutiveThinking #Innovation

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