https://yourlearningguides.com/podcasts/In this podcast episode, the Learning Guides explore the diverse applications of artificial intelligence (AI), focusing on tools like ChatGPT, Midjourney, and Leonardo. They discuss AI's role in text and visual content generation, along with AI's integration into programs like Canva. The hosts share personal experiences with AI, addressing concerns about job displacement and legal issues, such as unauthorized content creation. The conversation extends to AI's potential in learning and development. The hosts dive into AI's role in creating foundational content, strategic planning, and visual design in the world of L&D. They encourage listeners to embrace AI, highlighting its potential for efficiency and creativity in various aspects of life and work. Below you'll find a resource we've built for you to understand how to use AI for building curriculum along with some other valuable resources. The Learning Guides Downloadable: AI Prompts for Curriculum Writing Canva's AI Tools AI's role in the SAG-AFTRA Strikes Transcript: I am here with my cohost Kishana. Hey, Kishana. And today we're going to be talking about AI or artificial intelligence. And we're going to start off just by talking about the two core uses of artificial intelligence. The first being utilizing it for text creation or for code creation. And we're using tools like ChatGPT, for example. Just a little tidbit in case you didn't know GPT actually stands for general purpose technology. The second way is by the creation of visuals and some popular tools for visual creation are Midjourney and Leonardo. Leonardo is one I've been getting into using. I think it's a really interesting tool. It's fun to create. You can go down a rabbit hole just like you can with Chat GPT as well. Yeah. Hey, isn't Siri a form of AI? Yeah, you know what, Siri, interestingly, Siri, is actually a system that uses AI rather than being AI itself. And yeah, we see a lot of that today. And I actually think that's how a lot of platforms and businesses are upping their game by adding AI as a kind of core component. I know you're a Canva user too, but Canva has actually just released a ton of new features around, um, bringing AI into their platform, whether it's writing or visuals, or I think even some base editing. Oh, wow. No, I don't think that I knew that. I have been in Canva. I have been in it lately, but I did not notice the AI components. So now I'm going to be super interested, uh, to check that out. Yeah. I would definitely suggest taking a look. Things like Siri or Canva are actually driven by prompts. Um, so for example, when we're using Siri, she waits for us to talk to her and then we ask her to do something and then she runs off and does that thing. And so what exactly are prompt driven AI? Like what exactly does that mean? Well, and again, I'm no expert in AI. Let me just clarify that. So I'm just giving you your perspective from my perspective. I'll give you my take. But in my perspective, , whenever you go into some of these AI tools, like Chat GPT or, Leonardo, for example. The output that you receive is going to be solely based on the input you give, and that input is referred to as a prompt, and your prompts are driven by you as an individual, and so it becomes your voice, or the way you choose to word things, and how you word things will impact the output you get. So if you use really specific language types, you'll start to see that your output will become slightly different. So, oh, okay. Okay. So I think I remember this. So I do remember when you and I were talking about AI, um, previously, and we were thinking of titles for what we should name this podcast. And I remember you going through an example and you were saying something like, you know, give me the top five podcast names for L & D. And after Chat GPT gave you, um, this list of things, you kind of came back with your prompt and just said, Hmm, um, give me five more or give me 10 more, or I didn't like this. Don't include this, but include that. Could you give me some more examples? So that's what you're meaning by the prompts. Yeah. And that actually gets into another component of this, which I think is really cool about Chat GPT and other AI tools is that once you start your prompt, you can keep on going with that same prompt. Um, and just editing or revising it to get to an outcome that you're looking for. In that example, you know, if I had been specifically trying to target an audience, I could say, give me the five best podcast names based on a description, which is the description of what we came up with, what we wanted our podcast to be, for example, and then saying, but I want it to attract the millennial audience. And then you'll see that it comes back and it gives you some kitschy words. And I might say, okay, these are too kitschy. Can you tone this down a little bit? Give me less kitsch, maybe a little bit more of something else. And then it gives you more. And so it's like a brainstorming tool that you can use. I know since that time you've been using it a little bit. Mm-Hmm. more often. So I'd love to hear more about your experience. You know, I think that once you had done that demo for us on how you use Chat, GPT. It made things a lot easier for me to not have to rewrite my prompts or go back and edit my prompts. Or I would edit the prompt, but instead of editing it, I would just, you know, go back into that field and just say, give me five more . So I actually use that every day just in my regular life when I am writing or whatever the case may be. I definitely use those prompts and editing a little bit more, , when I'm just trying to brainstorm and just kind of get something together. Yeah. You know, a lot of people have been talking about a fear of AI and their job. Where do you stand on that? How do you feel about it? I actually am not fearful. I have completely embraced AI. Like I mentioned a few moments ago is that I use it every day. I know that sometimes words flow and sometimes words don't flow when I'm writing. And I believe that phrase has always been called writer's block. And so some days, I'm just like, I'm trying to say this thing. But it's not coming out right. How else can I, how else can I say this thing? So some of the times I use it for that, or I can use it just as a brainstorming tool to give me ideas on this certain topic. And it just helps me like, Oh yeah, I wasn't really thinking of that, but thanks for saying that because now I want to do this. So yeah, I find myself using it every day. Yeah, it's a great trigger that way. That's actually one of the things I love the most is sometimes you just need something to trigger your brain and set yourself off in a direction. And it can be great for that, especially when we're in a remote culture where we're often working alone. Around that idea of people being fearful of AI as it relates to their work. I saw a really interesting statement, maybe from someone on LinkedIn, and I can't I don't recall who it is specifically, but they said that there's no reason to be fearful of AI. AI itself won't take jobs. But what will happen is those individuals, those professionals who choose to embrace and utilize AI will take the jobs of those who don't. And I thought that was really impactful. I've always been a diver inner. I don't think that's a real word, but anytime there's something, a new tool we can play with, I'm like, Ooh, let's go see what this does. Which I think has always helped me professionally. , I feel because of that, I've become a really fast learner. So as soon as I have a chance, I'm just in there playing around and figuring it out. Leonardo has an online community on Facebook and it is, it's such a great learning environment. And it's, it's cool to see learning done that way, where it's a lot of peer education, cause it's trial and error. All of us are learning at the same time. And so we're going in and we're trying things. Some people are sharing prompts. Some people don't like to, because they look at their prompt almost as their property. Right? Just like if you were to draw something with your hands, and that's your drawing, because you have that talent, if you happen to be a really strong prompt writer, and you don't want to share what you've written, then , you don't have to. It's not a requirement. But there's a huge debate, at least on the visual stuff, about whether or not people can say this is my image; because AI is really just made up of a bunch of things from different places and it's pulling it together based on the prompts that you're using. I don't have any strong opinion either way. I just kind of think, it's there for me to utilize and I'm going to utilize it and you can sell it as your own. You just have to say it's digital art that was created via AI. So, you know, just two things that I thought about while you were talking. I have evolved, Sharon, I used to not be this diver inner, um, you know, that you were describing, I used to be the one that sits on the side and I would watch everyone else do something. And then I would say, well, I'm not doing it because everyone else is doing it. And I often found myself as I, got more seasoned, as I aged, that trying new things and kind of jumping, diving in and just trying something new is actually been kind of fun. So there is one component of that diver inner personality that you have that I'm starting to embrace that because when Chat GPT came out, I didn't fear it. I actually just jumped in just like you did and just started using it and was like, well, how can I use it? So it was really, really fascinating. You can't be afraid to fail forward and that's part of it. Right. And as long as you're not making any major mistak
