In a world where artificial intelligence is no longer just a futuristic concept, Maryrose Lyons, founder of the AI Institute, shares how AI is making a tangible impact on our daily lives. From simplifying mundane tasks to sparking creativity, AI is becoming an essential tool not just for professionals, but for anyone curious enough to explore its potential. Check this fascinating conversation with Áine Kerr from RTÉ Radio 1’s Reignite, where Maryrose discusses how AI is helping us all work smarter, not harder.
Áine:
- With everything we just heard on the ugliness of AI, how do we better inform ourselves to get new insight skills for our work but also our home levels at home lives?
- Someone who's been doing a lot of thinking about this is Maryrose Lyons, founder of the AI Institute, who is joining us from our Athlone Studios. Tell us a little bit first about your AI for beginners courses.
How do they work? How have they been going down?
Maryrose:
- Hi! Thanks for having me Áine. It’s great to be here!
- The AI for beginners courses are for everybody who is AI curious, who knows that AI is here, that want to adapt it in their work, but they're not sure how to begin. So we do a three-week training.
- It's three sessions, live training, people show up, have their video on, and it's just such a joy. It's all sorts of people. There's an awful lot of excitement, and we're all putting our fingers on the keyboard, and practising things and people step away with really tangible skills and actual savings in time and removal of boring tasks.
Áine:
- Do people knock a bit of fun out of it Maryrose? You know, just shrining this new technology, making mistakes with this?
Maryrose:
- Absolutely! One of my favourite memories on it was at the oldest gentleman who took one of our courses, he was 69, and one of the sessions we were looking at creating synthetic avatars.
- That's like making a kind of a video version of yourself and just to see this man's face as he was playing with a version of himself and he was getting it to say…
Áine:
- His ‘digital twin’.
Maryrose:
- His ‘digital twin’ yeah. He absolutely loved it. Now, is he going to use that digital twin in his working life?
- I probably think not, but he needs to know that it's there, as we all do. And some of your other guests on the show were touching on having awareness of reading as to spotting the fakes, because we're going to see more and more fakes in our feeds.
Áine:
- And we could all do with the digital twin Maryrose Lyons. Working parents, people with busy lives, trying to do this prioritisation. Other ways in which you can imagine AI tools being really helpful and just how we organise our lives?
Maryrose:
- Well, I'm living it. I'm not imagining it!
- I use AI all the time, and oftentimes my son will say ask ChatGPT for that. So from everything from, you know, yeah, another shopping list. I come up with really amazing meal ideas just by literally taking a photograph of my fridge, uploading it and saying I like smoked paprika and then I get like five brilliant recipes back that I can make. And many of them have been entered into our family recipes. You can use AI for everything.
- I used to kill a lot of houseplants and I don't anymore because I take photographs of them and I say “What did I do wrong?”
Áine:
- And does it give you reminders and a little of a health check of your plants around the house it is?
Maryrose:
- Well, it taught me that I was watering my plants too much. So now I don't. Now they live. Which is great!
- This morning, I had water coming out of my fridge, what would you do normally? So I took a photograph, and I was like “What is wrong here?” and it told me that the defrost channel thing was blocked, and sure enough, it was, now the water is gone. It’s great!
Áine:
- So AI is often solving you from making an urgent call to plumbers.
Maryrose:
- Exactly!
- And, you know Áine, what you touch on there is exactly what we're seeing in every profession. Name a plumber that wants to get a call on Saturday morning, from a lady who hasn't cleared her filter. I don't think there are many of them.
- Where I see the AI really helping, as it enables us to become more self-servicing. Solves the kind of basic. Kind of a hum drum problems. So it means then that we as the workers, can then be putting our humans’ skills on to much more creative and mindful or more interesting tasks instead.
- So I find like I've never heard so many different people speak to the amount of monotonous tasks in their work. You've got lawyers, and accountants, and consultants, all these people kind of saying “I hate doing that thing” to “I don’t do that anymore” so suddenly we’re all kind of lifting our heads from our computers and kind of saying “there is quite a lot of boring stuff I have to do in my work” and then you can basically use the AI to kind of set up automations, or to support you. So you spend less time on the Doll and then more on creating better stuff.
Áine:
- Well, I like the sound of that future!
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