1010: Getting the Most Out of Generative AI at Work with Jeremy Utley

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🗓️ 11 November 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Jeremy Utley reveals why many aren’t getting the results they want from AI—and how to fix that.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) The #1 mistake people are making with AI

2) ChatGPT’s top advantage over other AI platforms (as of late 2024)

3) The simple adjustments that make AI vastly more useful

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— ABOUT JEREMY —

Jeremy Utley is the director of executive education at Stanford’s d.school and an adjunct professor at Stanford’s School of Engineering. He is the host of the d.school’s widely popular program "Stanford’s Masters of Creativity.”

• Book: Ideaflow: The Only Business Metric That Matters

• Article: "For Conversations You Dread, Try a Chatbot"

• Article: “Don’t Let Gen AI Limit Your Team’s Creativity”

• Website: JeremyUtley.design

• LinkedIn: Jeremy Utley

• Podcast: Beyond the Prompt

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• Term: Einstellung effect

• Podcast: Huberman Lab

• Video: #NSDR (Non-Sleep Deep Rest) with Dr. Andrew Huberman

• Book: That Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix and the Amazing Life of an Idea by Mark Randolph

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0:00.0	Why is our default orientation that I'm the one with the questions and LLM is the one with the answers?
0:12.9	That's how everybody approaches it, right? Because that's how Google worked. We never think
0:16.0	Google, ask me a question. A language model is not a technology, it's an intelligence. In our study, people
0:24.3	who underperform AI feels like magic to them. People who outperform who use AI to get to better work,
0:29.9	it doesn't feel like magic. It feels like work. That's kind of a fundamental tension, I think.
0:34.0	We expect it to feel like magic or it sucks. And the truth is, it's just like working with another collaborator.
0:40.3	And you do get to better outcomes if you're willing to put in the work.
0:44.3	I think right now, most people's primary limitation is not the technology, it's their imagination.
1:00.5	That's Jeremy Utley.
1:02.3	He's an adjunct professor at Stanford and co-author of the book IdeaFlow,
1:04.3	the only business metric that matters.
1:06.2	In 2023, Jeremy was shortlisted
1:08.1	for the Thinkers 50 Innovation Award.
1:10.3	He's also the co-host of the podcast Beyond the Prompt, which dives deep into the world of
1:15.1	AI and its expanding impact on business and daily work.
1:18.7	Still learned one, the number one mistake people are making with AI.
1:22.8	Two, chat GPT's top advantage over other AI tools as of late 2024.
1:29.1	And three, the simple adjustments that make AI vastly more useful.
1:33.9	And if you want to get a summary write-up of some of these takeaways,
1:35.9	I recommend you to sign up for the free Gold Nugget Email newsletter,
1:39.2	available at awesomeatyourjob.com.
1:41.3	I'm Pete McItis. This is How to Be Awesome at Your Job.
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