Looking Back on Ryan Deiss's Thoughts on AI & Humanity

In 2017, I asked Ryan Deiss - a famous digital marketer - about his perspective on AI. 

 

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How do you think his thoughts held up?

To be fair, we shot this video BCGPT (before ChatGPT). Since then, AI has become much more accessible and useful.

It was the start of the golden age of AI, machine learning, and process automation ... but in the last seven years, AI's effects and impact have become radically more widespread.

While marketing relies on data, analytics, and automation, Ryan believes it also needs a personal touch. He suggested that the best AI should make conversations feel more human (particularly in marketing and selling) and allow humans to be more human. In other words, as technology frees people up, they can focus on more valuable things.

Today, more marketers - including Ryan - use generative AI tools to streamline their process and improve their output.

His points about using tools like ChatGPT remain valid.

The saying is trite, but AI won't replace your job ... a human with AI will.

This has happened many times in society. Fewer people work in farming or manufacturing, yet more people are doing more jobs. However, many of these new jobs didn't exist - or couldn't have been imagined - before people were freed up to contemplate what they could or should do. This shift in perspective is what truly matters and adds the most value to society, the economy, and people's lives.

Just as mechanization freed up workforces for better jobs, AI can do the same.

What do you think?