{"id":17707,"date":"2023-10-17T07:48:01","date_gmt":"2023-10-17T07:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mysourcefunding.com\/leadership\/the-case-for-mastering-ai-now-why-you-absolutely-cant-wait\/"},"modified":"2023-10-17T07:48:03","modified_gmt":"2023-10-17T07:48:03","slug":"the-case-for-mastering-ai-now-why-you-absolutely-cant-wait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mysourcefunding.com\/?p=17707","title":{"rendered":"The Case For Mastering AI Now. Why You Absolutely Can\u2019t Wait."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Have you had enough? Have you seen enough articles, posts, blogs, and podcasts discussing AI, including more than a dozen from me (here, and more elsewhere)?<\/p>\n

That\u2019s a trick question. If your answer is yes \u2013 and you haven\u2019t taken specific action \u2013 then your answer should still be no. Truth is, just about everybody who should be acutely aware of AI, is. The problem is that very few people have taken action to make AI an immediate new tool in their professional and career toolbox.<\/p>\n

Learning AI: The Fierce Urgency of Now.<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Lately, in my role as career coach and job market observer, I\u2019ve asked two questions to everyone with whom I speak in a professional capacity:<\/p>\n

1. Are you aware of how big a change AI really is?<\/p>\n

2. Are you doing something about it for your career?<\/p>\n

I\u2019m sure you know where this is going. Both responses are near unanimous, but going in the right direction for question one (88%) and the wrong direction for number two (15%). That\u2019s the equivalent of knowing there\u2019s a category 4 hurricane about to make landfall and not evacuating to higher ground.<\/p>\n

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Critical Career Decision<\/strong><\/h2>\n

This is just about the most disastrous mistake you can make, from this career coach\u2019s vantage point. Not knowing what\u2019s coming is one thing, but knowing and doing nothing is self-defeating from the very start.<\/p>\n

Yet it is, to a degree, understandable in an abstract sense, as AI is still, to many people, this still mysterious concept with no shape, no form, no physical presence. So, if we can\u2019t visualize or define a problem (or challenge), we tend to deny or ignore it.<\/p>\n

Well here \u2013 in blunt terms \u2013 is what\u2019s wrong with that. While you and 85% of your closest friends are doing nothing about it, one out of seven is. While you\u2019re standing still, they\u2019re moving ahead.<\/p>\n

Crossing the Chasm<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n

This brings to mind the famous \u201cinnovation-adoption\u201d model, also called the \u201cdiffusion of innovations\u201d theory first brought forth by Everett Rogers in 1962 and made wildly popular by Geoffrey Moore in his landmark book Crossing the Chasm<\/em> (1991, revised 1999 and 2014).<\/p>\n

Here, Moore shows us that, although a marketing concept and a way to understand product life cycles, we also see how this views our behavior in our careers.<\/p>\n

Picture the standard bell-shaped curve, with three standard deviations on each side of the statistical norm. In the case of how we respond to change and new technologies, the farthest left \u2013 2.5% of the population \u2013 are the \u201cinnovators,\u201d the ones who created or immediately accepted the innovation. Next, the second standard deviation, is what\u2019s known as the \u201cearly adopters\u201d \u2013 13.5%. Together, they comprise 16% of the population, and match up almost perfectly with the ongoing findings of my informal survey. Then come the \u201cearly majority\u201d at 34%, the \u201clate majority\u201d \u2013 also at 34%, and finally the \u201claggards,\u201d at 16%.<\/p>\n

Early Adopters<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Regarding AI, we are in the early adopter stage, and, in my opinion, at the relatively early stage of it. Therefore, given the inevitability of AI and the certainty that it will not only change the world, but change it in more dramatic ways than any other innovation in history, it would be a good idea to get with it as soon as possible. Hint: NOW!<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve lived through some of the most impactful changes in history \u2013 civilization changers like the rise to prominence of the automobile, the polio vaccine, the PC, space travel, the internet, the world wide web, social media, mobile phones, mRNA vaccines \u2013 that I recognize what AI is: the biggest and most sweeping change we humans have ever experienced. Period.<\/p>\n

And here we are, talking about it. It all comes down to this. Opportunity knocks once, and when it does, it doesn\u2019t wait around very long for your answer. So, while we\u2019re talking AI, it\u2019s time to do something about it \u2013 and those numbers \u2013 both Rogers\u2019 and mine \u2013 bear me out. Considering AI\u2019s nature, pace, and scope, I offer the following corollary: Every step taken now, in this early stage, will be the equivalent of ten steps taken for those who wait. And for those of us who are headed for the \u201claggard\u201d heap, or even the \u201clate majority,\u201d the uncomfortable truth is that we are creating our own obsolescence.<\/p>\n

Learn AI Skills. Become A Sklled AI User<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The goal for almost all of us is not to become a \u201ctechie\u201d producer of AI; it\u2019s to become a skilled user of AI. Bug difference, both in nature and in likelihood.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Have you had enough? Have you seen enough articles, posts, blogs, and podcasts discussing AI, including more than a dozen from me (here, and more elsewhere)? That\u2019s a trick question. If your answer is yes \u2013 and you haven\u2019t taken specific action \u2013 then your answer should still be no. Truth is, just about everybody […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17708,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-17707","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leadership"},"yoast_head":"\nThe Case For Mastering AI Now. Why You Absolutely Can\u2019t Wait. | Brandiary<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Have you had enough? 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