2023/11/16 12:00 My second course with the Fresh Time Book team, "The Age of AI Applications," has officially launched its fundraising campaign!
"The Age of AI Applications": https://go.newsveg.tw/5cxf4t
I imagine you're curious about why I'm transitioning from "teaching writing" to "teaching AI applications." Let me share that journey with you:
First, let me talk about my past courses and books. They all revolved around "efficiency" and "writing," or more broadly, "using talent to create value."
In my previous work, "efficiency" has always been my core message. And given my past work environment, I've been a pursuer of efficiency myself, constantly using numerous tools to assist my work. So I'm very experienced in their application. I used to believe that the way to improve efficiency was through continuous experience and professional refinement—reaching the ability to "break through the barrier of habit." That's when efficiency becomes truly high!
After ChatGPT appeared, I realized that "efficiency" doesn't require mastering professional expertise through constant refinement. Instead, learning "how to use AI" to create professionalism and quality yields even higher efficiency and effectiveness!
Moreover, having a conversation with ChatGPT is essentially inputting commands (Prompts), and getting precise answers depends on how you craft your instructions and dialogue approach—this fundamentally requires the foundation and logical fundamentals of writing!
I've broken down my Chinese prompt teaching into four steps. You can check out this beginner's guide section.
So extending from efficient writing, launching an AI applications course at this moment is perfectly timed and aligns with the learning direction I've always promoted!
As an online course teacher and leader in the industry, our responsibility is to continuously help students explore, use, and apply AI, finding methods that work best for them!
Ultimately, this resulted in a course that my team and I felt was incredibly comprehensive! It combines my three years of experience running a PR company—creating campaigns and content for clients—with practical AI applications.
Over the past year, I've been updating short videos and graphical content on Reels every Wednesday. My best-performing short video has reached 1.35 million views, and from time to time it still catches the algorithm's attention. This week's update, "Australia's Youngest Billionaire, Canva Founder Who Started Business at 19," garnered 150,000 views in just three days. Many of my AI-related shares appear on my Reels.
After ChatGPT gained significant discussion in Taiwan around March or April, I've invested considerable time researching it as it updates constantly. Recently, I uploaded my book manuscripts to GPTs and created a writing coach bot—it's a completely different experience than using technology before! (Really fun~~)
Throughout this process, I've grown myself. For instance, I've discovered that in communication, I might inadvertently omit a "subject" or "specific meaning," and then AI gets confused about what I'm trying to express, so the output isn't as precise as I'd hoped. But through repeatedly adjusting my prompts, I've increasingly understood my own communication blind spots—it's an unexpected gain. This kind of training also helps me face real-world communication more rationally, remaining calm and trying to understand what the other person is expressing.
While researching, I was simultaneously preparing the online course. Of course, this isn't just a ChatGPT writing course. Rather, it's about guiding students to understand how media is changing in this rapidly evolving AI era, so we can adapt and relieve anxiety.
When thinking about this, I recalled the concept of "Semiotics" from Communication Studies. For example, when we see the symbol "➤" (the sign vehicle) near an input box, we instinctively sense "send" (the sign object). So no matter which medium this symbol appears on, people almost universally interpret it the same way. From this, we can extend one fact: "Even though technology changes at lightning speed, the foundations of certain things remain unchanged."
For instance, I recently read a book by Eisuke Tachikawa called "Evolutionary Thinking," which mentions that many products developed by humans actually originate from biological evolution (such as mimicry, mutation, etc.). Industrial evolution also follows biological characteristics. For example, since the horse carriage era, there have been two types: "British left-hand drive" and "French right-hand drive," and even today, different countries still produce both left-hand and right-hand drive vehicles.
So there are things that won't easily change—rather, they accumulate and expand. Once you understand this, facing rapidly changing environments and pace actually won't make you feel anxious or chaotic. Instead, you'll enjoy and embrace this fascinating world.
I'd love to have you join "The Age of AI Applications": https://go.newsveg.tw/5cxf4t
