You’re a skeptic about AI. So am I.
Being a skeptic isn’t the same thing as being a cynic, although it’s hard not to be cynical sometimes when we’re told this or that model can pass the bar exam and become a lawyer.
Being a skeptic is all about wanting to see practical applications, successes, and things that we can use in the real world. Believe nothing is real until we can play with it. That’s what this newsletter is about: let’s get our hands dirty. It may not be production ready stuff, but it gives you a clear understanding of how AI works and how it might be incorporated into business applications.
We’ll work through things you can apply in the real world of enterprise applications. Things that don’t require a huge suspension of disbelief, or a big commitment, or a meaningful outlay of cash. We really shouldn’t need to spend more than lunch money to prove things out (unless you have a billion $ to invest, in which case hook me up!). Things any crafty admin can lash together to prove if something will or won’t work and to make their case for a bigger investment. Things with examples, while we’re at it.
So far, we’ve explored things like how to make recommendations for Life Insurance policies.
GPT Sells You Life Insurance
Our first ChatGPT project will start with an example from the life insurance industry and have GPT recommend a type of policy based upon the customer’s stated needs. This is a great example to start with, it demos well, the mechanics of it are very simple, and yet there’s a world of nuance in what it does and how to tune it.
True, if you want to take something like into production it could get expensive; but let’s only do that after we’ve proven the concept first?
Along the way, we’ll talk about what kinds of problems can be solved by AI and what kind can not, especially in the world of CRM (there’s no AI in the world that’s going to make sales reps behave themselves).
I believe, painfully enough, that you learn more from failure than success, and I’ll show you warts and all: might as well learn from my failures, it’s a bit less painful.
Sound interesting? Subscribe! It’s free. And you can change your mind faster than ChatGPT can regret telling you Sam Altman’s Bitcoin private key.
