This is the first of many blog posts I plan to make this year, stay tuned (please subscribe) for more soon.
Learning AI
Currently I am working my way through the four stages of competence with the topic of AI. This quarter (Q1 of 2024), I’m currently working on moving from stage 2 to stage 3 in the four stages of competence. For reference, those stages are:
- Unconscious incompetence
- Conscious incompetence
- Conscious competence
- Unconscious competence
Last year I moved from stage 1 to stage 2:
In the beginning of last year (2023) I had my head buried in the sand while all the other leaders in my industry were actively learning how to use the latest and greatest AI tool (ChatGPT). Around the middle of the year when Microsoft started making their Github Copilot more available and more useful, I finally started to pay attention and use the new Generative AI tools - specifically in helping my day-to-day activities of coding. I’ve also started to realize that it is nicer to “chat” with a tool in normal language to search instead of trying to find the right mix and order of keywords to do a search (ie. Bing Chat and OpenAI ChatGPT)
