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Take your AI out of the browser
You actually become much more of a manager of work than an executor of work. I said that in a workshop, while we looked together at what happens when you give the AI access to one folder on your laptop. A messy downloads folder is tidied up, separate Excel files are merged into one overview, and a first version of a follow-up email is ready.
The same AI, but no longer in the browser.
Talking or working
Most people know AI as a chat window in the browser. You ask a question, you get text back, and you copy what you need to your own documents. That is useful, but it remains talking. Everything that needs to happen to your files after that, you do yourself.
Recently, the major AI assistants also run as an app on your computer. And then something fundamental changes. An AI on your computer can do everything you can do on your computer. Open, read, rename, move, merge files, create new documents. It can connect to your email, your calendar and other services, and act based on that.
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