Obvious To You, Amazing To Others
Obvious To You, Amazing To Others
Dishing The Data #45
Good morning, friends! ☀️
Unfortunately, I am not on holiday this week like I was for the previous two editions. However, the weather in London has been splendid this week, and I am writing this just after completing a 15km run in Regents and Hyde Park!
On Friday, I helped host a GenAI workshop for people in non-tech roles. The workshop showed them how tools like ChatGPT can expedite their productivity and automate some of their manual processes.
As a data scientist, I use ChatGPT and AI tools like Github Copilot every day, so they are just a general part of my workflow, and I am not overly stunned by their output anymore.
Also, due to my work as a data scientist, I am pretty aware of the whole ecosystem around GenAI tools in terms of the underlying models and all the latest research.
When conducting this workshop, I quickly realised that even my rudimentary knowledge of the current state-of-the-art AI systems is quite ahead of others.
The AI knowledge I had seemed obvious, and everyone probably knows this stuff, but this is far from the case.
A common phrase is, “What's obvious to you may not be obvious to others,” and that's exactly what I experienced.
I think we often think all the knowledge we have everyone else must have because it's so obvious to us; why would it not be obvious to others?
My YouTube videos often contain advice and tips on getting into data science. To someone who has worked in the field, the things I am discussing are apparent, but only because I have done them.
However, I always get loads of comments saying how much it helped them, which is the best feeling!
The point is that we all have something clearly helpful to share with at least one person and that we should not assume everyone always knows what we know.
Weekly Favourites ❤️
📚 Book — Kleptopia by Tom Burgis. I am sure you have realised by now that I really like political, historical, and financial scandal books, and this one ticks all those boxes. Kleptopia is about the “dirty” money moving around the global economy and is very eye-opening regarding how corrupt certain systems are.
🔨 Tool — Custom GPTs. This week, I played around with creating my own custom GPT. It’s surprisingly easy to create and doesn’t require any coding experience. No-code AI is here!
🔨 Tool — Rectangle. This app helps me resize the windows on my Mac blazingly fast just by using my keyboard. I have been using it for about a year, and it has saved me at least a few seconds every time.
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Any chance you will be posting the video replay for the GenAI workshop for people in non-tech roles ?