My one and only post about AI.
It would seem remiss to not post *something* about AI in 2023 on Linkedin, so here goes. 😅
I spend a good amount of one-on-one time with founders, serving as a mentor, ally, and coach, with a focus on helping people get ‘unstuck’, to make important decisions. The founders I work with span a very wide variety of industries, and they and I *both* know who’s the expert in the room on their topic, and who’s best suited to make the decision (read: not me).
So why am I there? 🤔
I address the ‘artificial intelligence’ in the room.
I’ll start by saying, our minds are truly a place of wonder. We see *and* become what we believe.
Unlike machine AI, which rapidly processes every potential solution to determine the optimal one, our brains arrive at the best solution through swift decision-making using the most appropriate shortcuts from our stored solutions. What makes one shortcut ‘right’ is an old and early response that remains embedded. And what may have been a brilliant response at the age of 5, is still there in our storage 30 years later, just less brilliant. Due to the remarkable efficiency of our brains, these shortcuts can actually lead us to underestimate our own abilities.
We achieve only up to the limits we set for ourselves mentally, which I call our AI.
This form of artificial intelligence significantly impacts our lives. When what we believe overrides what’s actually there, we miss opportunities and misjudge risks. And even worse, we find ourselves ‘stuck’, deer-in-headlights, not moving in any direction. 🙃
As much as our brains love routine and ‘smart shortcuts’, its ability to monitor itself is what I find profound. Cultivating curiosity about our beliefs via that constant monitor serves as the initial step to break patterns and reshape our perspectives. This curiosity, when it becomes a practice, can reset the limits to our aspirations, recalibrating them to meet the person we want to be tomorrow.
While it may initially feel unfamiliar (cue new neural pathways 🥳), take a look today at your own AI. Ask yourself 'why', ‘where’ and ‘how’ a belief you hold has surfaced, and scrutinize whether the responses truly exhibit intelligence. Over time, this practice becomes the new ingenious shortcut.
What’s often said about machine AI holds true for our minds: it’s only as good as the data it’s given. 💡
(Image: Me, kind of. An AI generated version of me, via Dreamwave AI.)
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