Rikard Steiber

Essentially AI will be able to replace the work of all knowledge workers - teachers, lawyers, analysts, social media mangers etc etc. If you are a knowledge working you should start using AI (e.g. Gemini, ChatGPT, Claude) to not only enhance your productivity, but also the quality of your work, and be able to deliver new innovative ideas. The key is to ask the AI / LLM to take the role of your "secret coach" that help you with your work or business. By starting using AI know you will learn about what the AI is good at, and what it is really bad at. Clearly the combination of AI and humans is the future of work. If you become one of the few who understand both your area of expertise and how to use AI, you will become successful.

A really great way to leverage AI and LLMs services such as ChatGPT and Gemini is to make it your personal "side-kick". The secret "trick" is to prompt the AI to roleplay be your helpful tutor or coach with expertise in you area of interest. One prompted it will be much more than your usual AI. It will now focus on helping you become a continuous learner by providing you with relevant data and answers when you need them, offer additional ideas for your problem, and give you feedback how to improve on the work you created. Please double check facts as AI's may make things up (hallucinate) if it does not have the answer. In which areas would you use an AI yourself?

Autonomous AI driven vehicles will become part of everyday the next few year, let me give some examples. Trucks - I invested in Einride that provides AI driven electric trucks as a service to shippers. With no need for human drivers (saves money), and no need for an expensive cabin for the human driver (saves money), and the ability to drive almost 24/4 (makes money)... the business case to switch to autonomous trucks become very attractive. The same is true for busses, taxies, boats and airplanes.... and your car. The technology is here today, but social acceptance and 100% safety is not here... yet. It will be soon. I think this transition will start with professional transportation with high value lanes in rural areas. What do you think?

Start using AI in your daily work life so it becomes a natural way of working. Could be easy productivity tools such as: 1. ChatGPT - https://chat.openai.com/ 2. Gemini - https://gemini.google.com/ 3. Microsoft 365 Copilot - https://adoption.microsoft.com/en-us/copilot/ 4. FirefliesAI - better meetings - https://fireflies.ai/ 5. OtterAI - better meetings - https://otter.ai/ 6. Midjourney - create beautiful images -https://www.midjourney.com/home 7. DALL·E 2 - create images -- https://openai.com/dall-e-2 8. ChatPDF - talk to your PDFs - https://www.chatpdf.com/ 9. TrevorAI - organize your tasks - https://www.trevorai.com/ 10. BeautifulAI - beautiful presentations - https://www.beautiful.ai/ Please add your favorite tools here!

When I was at Google I learned that you have to "understand the user (customer), the magic (product), and connect the two". If you stand for something, you need to stand out! As AI services becomes a commodity with many competitors the importance of securing your competitive edge and being able to incorporate this into your brand. This is also true if customers have a hard time to evaluate your service before they are buying it (think bank or AI software). Bragging about your product features that all others also are bragging about is not going to work, you have to stand out. Understanding what the Customers really cares about and what your Product can deliver on is the thing you should focus on. Focus on the one thing that only you can own

All Entrepreneurs are solving problems worth solving. The "Why" is the foundation for any successful venture. The good news is that AI tools and platforms have the capability help solve any problem. So start with selecting a problem worth fixing where you believe AI could solve the tasks faster, better, cheaper than the current method - the "What". Example it is costly and time consuming to create an Will and Estate Plan for your family => you could train and AI to capture information about your family and then draft you a Will based on your locations and needs without any lawyers. You then focus on learning they platforms and tools needed to for the specific problem you are solving - the "How". Hope this helps, good luck!