- AI is getting more powerful all the time.
Every week there's a raft of big new product announcements,
which makes it kind of hard to keep up with
to be honest with you.
But the truth is you don't have to keep up
with all of those announcements.
There are some evergreen principles that apply
to getting real value out of AI tools,
and I want to share some of those with you in this course.
It's not about knowing how to use all the fancy features.
It's about knowing how to use it
to add value to your own role.
Used in the right way,
AI can potentially remove tedious tasks,
help you do better work,
and earn yourself a body like mine, if you're unlucky.
Hi there, I'm Dave Birss.
I'm an author and educator.
I'm an experimenter, maker, and thinker.
I'm a lover, not a fighter,
and you'll find a heap of AI courses from me
on LinkedIn Learning.
This is an updated version of my AI for Productivity course
that now embraces new capabilities like deep research,
and it includes new use cases
that you can start applying right away.
This course is bigger and better than it was before,
although my beard is slightly smaller and slightly grayer.
So if you've done this course before,
you should probably do it again.
There's lots of new information
and an extra bundle of prompts.
I'll be showing you how to use AI to help with your job,
and I'll share a framework
for determining where best to use AI
because this is about using AI as a personal sidekick
to enhance your existing abilities,
not as a cheat bot to outsource the hard work to.
That's an important distinction to understand.
I want to give you tangible benefits in this course
along with the frameworks to help you make better decisions.
I'm going to share useful prompts to improve job performance
and give you some cringe-worthy dad jokes as a little bonus.
You didn't ask for those, but you get them anyway.
Look, AI isn't magic.
It's not going to transform your career overnight,
but used intelligently,
it can give you an edge that others don't have.
The tools may be changing rapidly,
but the principles of how to use them effectively
remain pretty consistent.
Master those principles
and you'll be able to adapt to whatever comes next.
So stick around.
Join me in the next lesson.