At the corporate level, per Collette, enterprise investment in the AI market is estimated to grow annually from 2025 through 2030, with $347 billion projected in 2026. By 2030, the speaker forecasted that number to rise to $1.2 trillion.
“Major companies are investing in AI, so it’s here to stay. So, if you want to increase your efficiency, increase your productivity, lean into it, start small,” he advised.
Collett invited all Rotarians to individually enhance their interactions with AI computer software and hardware that enables computers and machines to perform tasks that usually require human intelligence. And it all starts with telling AI what you want it to do.
The trick, he added, is to talk to it not like a computer, but communicate in a more personal way by clearly stating what you envision in streamlining mundane tasks, solving problems or even building a website.
Currently, Collett noted, AI is the worst it will ever be, and will only improve by leaps and bounds going forward. Every four months, in fact, AI is getting 100 times better due to constantly changing technologies and new models coming out.
Collett mentioned the presence of about 200 available AI models, including OpenAI, ChatGPT, Gemini, Anthropic’s Claude and Grok. Any one of these varities, he said, can bring value to a current nonuser in three ways:
• Impacting employee productivity
• Improving operational efficiency, innovative products and services
• Creating new products and services
To that end, the AI expert, consultant and trainer rattled off seven essential ingredients to properly interface with AI. These included:
1. Describing the task: Tell it what you want by giving it context. When the data used to train it is different from the production data, for instance, this can cause a model drift or regression.
2. Giving context: This can be accomplished by nourishing the technology with the proper background, rules and data.
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