Artificial Intelligence: Where to Begin

so I think the biggest thing is you are not left behind.

It now is the perfect time to get started.

Go find a way to get familiar with it.

Just like Excel, just like PowerPoint, they are all tools to help with efficiency.

In fact, for those of you who've put proficient with Microsoft Excel on your resume, AI is the new proficient with generative AI, AI chatbots.

especially if you can indicate something that you've done as a value, something that you've brought forward from using that tool.

But a lot of employers, if they're hiring for everything from quality to safety to any of the roles necessary for supporting manufacturing, If you've got proficient with AI or AI chatbots, or especially if you have an example of something you've done, your resume is going to stand out over somebody who doesn't because a lot of manufacturers are just looking for somebody who has experience enough to help them start to onboard it.

So the biggest thing I would say is become familiar with it.

Do it for you.

Do it for the company you're working with.

And that can be as little as just opening up whatever you'd prefer, Claude or Gemini, ChatGPT, Copilot, any of them.

If you open them up and just start using them, have a conversation with them.

Early on, it's a conversation a little bit like, Google searching, but then as you start to explore its capabilities and think, oh, I wonder if AI can do this, those are the moments that start expanding what you can do with AI, because most likely whatever it is you think, I wonder if AI can do this, you should be able to accomplish it.

I'd also say that if you don't know if AI can do something, ask it.

Ask it, have it teach you.

A lot of what we have learned from AI has been, or learned about AI rather, has been from AI, from asking it, can I do this? How to do this? Walk me through this.

Even so much as building out an on-premise AI tool server.

If you sit down with just an AI chatbot, it will walk you through it.

And they're not shy about talking about each other too.

So you can pop into Gemini and say, how do I do this in Microsoft Copilot? And it will walk you through that without prejudice.

It will straight up just tell you how to do something.

And it's been pretty helpful all across the board.

So get in, play around with it, get experience using it.

Definitely say if you're not sure if you like the results of something, that you've played around with, tried something out, that's OK.

If you don't like the results, then don't use them.

so I think the biggest thing is you are not left behind.

It now is the perfect time to get started.

Go find a way to get familiar with it.

Just like Excel, just like PowerPoint, they are all tools to help with efficiency.

In fact, for those of you who've put proficient with Microsoft Excel on your resume, AI is the new proficient with generative AI, AI chatbots.

especially if you can indicate something that you've done as a value, something that you've brought forward from using that tool.

But a lot of employers, if they're hiring for everything from quality to safety to any of the roles necessary for supporting manufacturing, If you've got proficient with AI or AI chatbots, or especially if you have an example of something you've done, your resume is going to stand out over somebody who doesn't because a lot of manufacturers are just looking for somebody who has experience enough to help them start to onboard it.

So the biggest thing I would say is become familiar with it.

Do it for you.

Do it for the company you're working with.

And that can be as little as just opening up whatever you'd prefer, Claude or Gemini, ChatGPT, Copilot, any of them.

If you open them up and just start using them, have a conversation with them.

Early on, it's a conversation a little bit like, Google searching, but then as you start to explore its capabilities and think, oh, I wonder if AI can do this, those are the moments that start expanding what you can do with AI, because most likely whatever it is you think, I wonder if AI can do this, you should be able to accomplish it.

I'd also say that if you don't know if AI can do something, ask it.

Ask it, have it teach you.

A lot of what we have learned from AI has been, or learned about AI rather, has been from AI, from asking it, can I do this? How to do this? Walk me through this.

Even so much as building out an on-premise AI tool server.

If you sit down with just an AI chatbot, it will walk you through it.

And they're not shy about talking about each other too.

So you can pop into Gemini and say, how do I do this in Microsoft Copilot? And it will walk you through that without prejudice.

It will straight up just tell you how to do something.

And it's been pretty helpful all across the board.

So get in, play around with it, get experience using it.

Definitely say if you're not sure if you like the results of something, that you've played around with, tried something out, that's OK.

If you don't like the results, then don't use them.