Generative AI assistants like ChatGPT and Microsoft’s Copilot can boost our productivity, help us speed up the tedious tasks we don’t enjoy and make us more effective on the tasks we do enjoy. This session will demo the capabilities of various AI assistants.
This talk focusses on ideas, suggestion jow to use AI assistants well. There are no slides for this talk, just a live demos of various AI assistants. This page has links to resources mentioned in the talk.
The four most popular AI assistants are ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Claude and Google’s Gemini.
What can Gen AI do for us? describes the ways that Gen AI models can help us, and mentions a few potential downsides to be aware of.
If this talk is for a NHS finance audience, since finance teams use Excel extensively, we’ll explore how AI assistants can assist with Excel tasks, such as data reconciliation and chart creation. There may be some demos of using AI assistants to help with Excel challenges.
We will also quickly look at Copilot in Excel to clean data, build charts and write formulas
The key Gen AI Skills needed to flourish as AI becomes more prevalent.
Some suggestions on next steps - how to hone our AI skills.
Guidelines for effective prompts provides a guidelines how to have a good conversation with an AI assistant.