AI "As me" / "for-me" / "to-thee"
Mindset for Powerful AI Use Cases
How do you come up with powerful AI use cases?
First things first… make sure your AI’s focus is on YOU. Your life and goals…
Make it personal and practical by asking questions like these:
What is it that I need more of?
What is it that I want more of?
What are some things I hate doing?
What would I delegate if I could?
What are my time constraints or obstacles?
These questions help get you into the right frame of mind.
Without the right mindset, you're going to be lost and scattered with infinite ideas and options.
Here are three categories for using AI from my new framework:
AI “As Me” / To-Me
One of the most practical and powerful ways to use AI is to train it to act just like you, becoming your thought partner. When it knows your values, your goals, your personality, and your resources, it also has the unique benefit of providing objective guidance for your life.
This type of AI is private and only used by you.
I recently heard an individual talk about creating a co-CEO powered by a custom GPT. This is exactly in this category of AI as-me / to-me. This co-CEO is able to think like you but, of course, also has the wide range of knowledge of a large language model.
When you think about planning for the week, the month, the quarter, the year, your AI thought partner is the perfect companion. If you train it to store all your notes, history, contacts, it can act as a second brain, freeing you to only memorize and work on critical topics.
But again, you must prioritize security practices to make sure this AI is fiercely private and protected.
AI “As Me” / For-Me
The AI that works for you is like your personal assistant. It's who you delegate tasks that you no longer want to do. Imagine all the things you would do if you had an unlimited number of interns or contractors.
Imagine what you could do if you could automate any recurring or monotonous tasks.
When I think about AI working for me in this capacity, the goal is to free up my brain for the things that really matter. But I also think about ways it could bring benefit to help me prepare for meetings and sales calls to handle low-level distractions.
Training in AI to check and respond to email is something that I'm already working on. I'll share more about that in another post.
Note: Every idea shown in the graphic above is already possible. This is the thing that many people don't understand about AI. It doesn't have to be magic. It doesn't have to be a genius. Just using it to automate the things that you do every day has exponential value and benefit.
“AI doesn’t have to be a genius to exponentially improve your life”
AI “As Me” / To-Thee
This final category is when we have a public-facing AI trained and constrained to represent us to a larger audience. This does require guardrails, policies, and transparency. This does have some risk, but it also has massive benefit when you're dealing with hundreds or thousands of requests on a larger scale.
In one sense, this is what technology has always done. Websites, chatbots, IVRs. Technology that's able to communicate to hundreds of people at the same time has always been valuable.
But with large language models and generative AI, we can bring a lot more personalization. We can train it on our own internal practices and knowledge bases and SOPs. The time it takes to go live is much shorter.
So which of these three is most interesting to you?
Conclusion & Invitation
How would you like to collaborate and learn with me in 2025?
Would you be open to me teaching and training you on creating practical versions of AI in each of these three categories? I’d love to invite you to a new private community I am creating for 2025.
Register for the official announcement here.
I believe we grow best with community, accountability, and well-defined projects.
AI is moving too fast to follow everything alone.
We need to get clear and apply it in specific ways. Training your ai “As Me” is the first step. THEN, you can focus it to work FOR you and AS you and TO others.
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