Cassie Kozyrkov on LinkedIn: 6️⃣ 😃😃,😄😄😄,😄😄😄 !! 🎉 600K followers snuck up on me while I wasn't… | 95 comments (2024)

“If you want to master something, teach it”. --Richard FeynmanI'm thinking about this as I prepare my new set of talks for a packed speaking calendar!Speaking on stage is one of the great joys of my professional life. It’s the truest way I know to organize my thoughts and distill complex concepts into actionable, amuseful lessons for my audience. I’ve had the privilege to speak on some truly spectacular stages lately (to see some of them, check out this sizzle reel my team put together for me). It’s a wonderful time to discuss AI and decision-making with rooms full of brilliant minds. Interested in having me speak at your next event? My team and I would love to hear from you! You can reach out to my team to tell us more here: https://kozyr.com/speaking

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Registration is now closed for my new Maven course: Developing Your AI Strategy. Excited to see you tomorrow as we dive into tactical frameworks and best practices for driving revenue with enterprise-scale AI:- Identifying the best use cases for planet-scale automation- Avoiding the phenomenon of ‘Death by a Thousand Pilots’- Assessing AI vendors- Defeating the ‘Four Horsem*n of the Enterprise AI-pocalypse’- Building safety nets for safe and effective AI systems… and much, much more“I could not have asked for a more thoughtful and well organized course to better understand the steps to Enterprise AI.” –Review from the previous cohortJoin the waitlist for the next cohort here: https://lnkd.in/em9jgGNt

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What did leaders say about my AI strategy course? Is it worth taking? Let's see what the screenshots from cohort 1 say...There's still time left to register - only 15 hours! - before the next session starts at noon on Friday. Enroll here: https://lnkd.in/em9jgGNtIf you know someone who could benefit the way these enterprise leaders did, please share this post with them. And if you've ever wished AI had better leadership, repost / comment for reach.

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It’s odd when people ask if AI is 'better' than humans. As if it's an entity with which we compete. Humans have always built tools to make us better, whether it’s a bike, hammer, or ChatGPT. Us+tool=doing a task more efficiently.AI’s impact will reach an entirely different scale. But just like the lowly hammer, it’s still humans creating these tools. The question shouldn't be if AI is ‘better than us.’ Rather, we should be thinking seriously about what’s being baked in by the tool’s human builders. What kind of values, biases, and success criteria are being baked into planet-scale systems that will affect millions of people?I spoke about all this and more in the latest episode of The Augmented Life. You can listen here: https://lnkd.in/gjz7eSXX

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AI automates tasks, not jobs.Think about your day to day—how much is spent on repetitive, predictable tasks? The data entry, the copy and paste coding, the responding to frequently asked questions for the millionth time. These tasks are most certainly on the automation chopping block.But AI won’t replace thinking. True thinking—the kind that requires creativity, decision-making, and problem-solving—can’t be punted to a tangle of wires. If you’re concerned about this coming shift, focus on honing your soft skills: creativity, communication, adaptability, collaboration, design, decision-making, leadership, and those utterly human sparks of brilliance. After all, soft skills aren't soft; they're the skills that are hardest to automate.I refer to these two types of tasks as ‘thinking’ and ‘thunking’. You can read much more about it right over here: https://lnkd.in/eBTTHsSf

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Who doesn't need the audio to recognize the city where I am this week and weekend? It's weeks like this that give my courses their special flavor."The teacher in you is the playwright, but the actor in you wins your audience's hearts.”During the afternoons of Friday Aug 23 and Saturday Aug 24 (12-4 PM both days), I'll be offering leaders and aspiring leaders a Maven course that's densely packed with AI insights from my 10 years at Google (I hope you'll join me, enroll here: https://lnkd.in/em9jgGNt)P.S. Your company might pay for this course! Here's a reimbursem*nt template you can forward to your manager to ask: https://maven.com/expense

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“You shouldn’t let poets lie to you.” - BjörkIn the AI world, there’s no shortage of poets spinning tales. GenAI is remarkable. It is transforming the way we work. But it’s also *designed* to hallucinate; hallucination is a feature, not a bug. So responsible implementation will take more than hope plus blinkers. Regardless of what the sales reps may have you believe, technology this complex is not something you sprinkle onto an organization for an easy win.I like this recent Fortune article from Sharon Goldman because it touches on exactly this: Despite being overhyped, AI still has the potential to drive tremendous value.Enterprises who want to see AI impact their bottom line will have to first identify a business problem that can impact the bottom line. Next, develop an AI strategy that can be feasibly and reliably deployed.Don’t get swept away by the poetry. Effective AI might not be easy, but today is an incredibly exciting time to be tackling these problems at individual-scale and planet-scale alike. (If this is something you’ve been thinking about, I’m teaching a course on developing enterprise AI strategies that actually drive revenue. Join us here: https://lnkd.in/egMzRD2h )https://lnkd.in/gdmPScMF

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I think a lot about how to make better decisions.In my day job, that often means helping enterprises make decisions that drive more value out of complex technology.But sometimes, I like to get a little more meta. I joined my friends Michael Tiffany and Amna Rana on an episode of their brilliant podcast, The Augmented Life, to discuss what decision making really means:- What we mean when we talk about data- How to value gut instinct against “data-driven” choices- ‘Satisficing’ vs Optimizing- We even got into how studying economics might help you with your diet (!)This was a fun one. We covered a lot of ground so be sure to catch the full episode here: https://lnkd.in/gjz7eSXX– – PS: If you’re also interested in decision-making for enterprises, why not join my upcoming Maven course? We’re covering all things Enterprise AI Strategy. Learn how to develop, test, and deploy scalable and reliable AI systems that drive business growth. Join us here: https://lnkd.in/egMzRD2h

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