This is my love story with AI · AutoSkool.Club AI

This is my love story with AI

How did I start with AI? What was my wake-up point (with no return)?

Let me tell you my story and how I got where I am.

The first time I started with GPT was around summer 2021. At first, I thought it was super cool, but really nothing more than Google search on steroids. I used it here and there for simple stuff, like "write me a song about XYZ" or "tell me where XYZ comes from" or "what can you tell me about XYZ", nothing life-changing, but you could already see some potential.

Slowly, I started to push what you could do into more useful territory. I began using it within my work to help me write security scripts for vulnerability management and help me understand more technical concepts. It was brilliant at it, and back then it was already giving me an edge over all my colleagues who weren't using it.

Gradually, I started using it more and more for my day-to-day activities – helping me write emails, develop security policies, define implementation roadmaps, etc. At this point, it was becoming a key tool for my daily work. I felt this tool was giving me superpowers. I could do the work of 5 different IT and Cybersecurity experts, all on my own. But still, this was not my breaking point. This was October 2023, and the moment of truth was around the corner.

November 2023. This was it.

OpenAI released something that changed me forever: GPTs.

Until then, ChatGPT was an isolated tool for me, super useful, but I couldn't take it out of there to use it for my own specific needs. Not until then.

With GPTs, OpenAI gave everyone the opportunity to take this amazing technology and transform it into something fit for their specific needs. From that day, you could create a team of specialist agents capable of being trained on any subject you wanted, with specific instructions to deliver specific outcomes.

But why was this a game changer for me? Because this was the first time I realized the impact this technology was about to have on EVERY SINGLE BUSINESS out there. Now I could build teams of specialists, feed specific knowledge documents, specific to a company or even specific to a team within a company, and train them to deliver outcomes that would've taken hours or even days for a human to prepare.

From there, I jumped in fully. I decided this was where my professional life was heading because I could see that the disruption this technology was about to bring would be the biggest humanity has ever seen. Even bigger than the industrial revolution or the invention of the wheel.

Right there, I switched on my ADHD hyperfocus-obsessive learning mode, which remains active to this day.

Almost two years later and thousands of hours spent learning new techniques, new technologies, understanding real-world use cases and implementations of this new tech, and trying to understand how I could add my part to bring this change to the world, here I am.

I completed a Master's Degree in Applied AI.

I completed several training programs for AI applied to business from some of the best teachers in the world currently teaching these subjects.

I also achieved several renowned certifications from organizations like Microsoft and MIT, and I met so many AI practitioners who are as passionate as I am about this technology and share the same vision about how this will change the world.

When I speak about this with people, I get very passionate about it, to the point that I realize I maybe sound a bit like a mad scientist talking about astrophysics, and they look at me as if what I'm talking about makes absolutely no sense. But I want to think that in a few years, I'll look back at this post and just think how ahead of my time I was.

If you made it to this point, thank you for your patience, you are a legend.

From now on, and trying to keep up by adding my little grain of sand to this evolution, I will start posting short sessions on a regular basis about how EVERYONE can use AI in their day-to-day to make life easier, be faster at what they do, and gain valuable time to dedicate to anything they want, thanks to using AI. I want to help make AI not an abstract thing where the only thing people know about AI is ChatGPT, and start showing everyone how they can apply AI to their job in the most practical way. This is not going to be me posting fancy, crazy-looking automations to show off how I'm pushing my AI skills to the limit, it will be to help everyone in my network be able to watch my short videos and immediately apply what they've learned directly to their jobs/lives.

I'm not sure how this is going to look yet, but stay tuned!

Also I would love for you guys to share your love story with AI as well! Please drop it in the comments!

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