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Level 2.0: Eclair

7 months ago

[Day 3] Community festival: The AI Renaissance: Building us up & making us laugh

Once upon a time in a land far far away, developers and analysts used to spend hours manually debugging code, wading through endless spreadsheets, and squinting at blurry design mock-ups; until in wa...

Lizzie

Google Community Manager

7 months ago

Thanks you so much for writing this piece BenMcc. I love a good podcast and can't wait to listen to our first community one! 😀

Do you use AI much in your day to day yet? Help writing emails etc?

What I find interesting is when I speak to different people, friends or colleagues I find that everyone seems to use AI tools in different ways. One of the main ones for me is using Circle to search in my personal time, mainly when I'm reading an article and want to search a name or look up a book title, whereas when I said this to a friend of mine he said that he never using that feature, but likes to search directly into the Gemini app, which I do less of. This really interests me because we are all using AI tools differently to match our characters and needs. Pretty cool really.

Thanks again so much.

BenMcc

Level 2.0: Eclair

7 months ago

Thanks Lizzie it was a pleasure.

I certainly do use AI day to day. As a developer I use it all the time with coding tasks. While I don't believe it is safe to use generated code from a standpoint of both security and legality (Ie you don't really know where the code it generates has come from and who's IP you might be infringing on) it is great for repetitive tasks and saves a bundle of time. However I do use it a lot on client projects which can add so much value and save time. A current project is for client who sells herb & spices. When adding a product to the system a few years back you would have to type in the name and description, find an image of the right type and upload it - today you just type in the name and AI generates the description and the image, in only about 5% of the time do they need to make any edits which saves hours.

Its interesting what you said about colleagues and usage of AI. I read somewhere the other day that search engine usage is dropping while AI like Gemini is taking over and I certainly find myself doing that a lot. Just the other day I needed the months of the year in 8 different languages for a project. In the past I would have searched it or used translate and got it all done one at a time. Not now I just asked Gemini and got all languages back in just a second formatted so I could just copy and paste into a spreadsheet.

I am quite excited to know what we will be doing with AI this time next year - perhaps I will be able to write a follow up then!

Ben