A More Human Group Collaboration Because of AI

okay I just left a really really cool meeting that in an unexpected way shed light on how to have a better team collaboration how to better have a human interaction because of AI so here’s what happened i was having a creative collaborative meeting and when creatives get together there’s always a certain risk that goes with sharing your ideas having your ideas get taken um defending the things that you started to get excited about and what I did was I brought AI into the collaboration so in the meeting there were a few people and I was constantly throwing everything that was said into chate PT and allowing it to feed back so one person says this and oh hey they just said this here’s the newest idea what ideas do you have the content that it was working with was ours it was human content but it could grab it and articulate it back sometimes better than we could and it had ideas that we wouldn’t have come up with so where it really got fascinating to me was we had a point where we had an idea my interpretation into AI changed it and AI’s uh response back changed it a little bit again and that gave us an idea for yet a third or fourth idea so this thing this idea came out of the ether you can’t look back and say it was mine it was AI’s it was the other uh participants it was the groups now one of the things about AI when I say a more human interaction AI is perpetually polite it is always affirming the ideas that come in it has no self-interest it like it doesn’t have emotional or even intellectual stakes in the game it’s just there to serve but I didn’t use it like a tool i actually used it like a collaborator a participant i gave it similar weight to all the other voices in the room i gave it equal time now it was better than any of us at affirming the other people’s ideas saying why something was great that something was great here are what we could do with that oh I love this i love that and here’s why we didn’t always do that we would sit and let somebody give feedback and not necessarily choose to affirm it ai brought a level of humanity into the collaboration that almost doesn’t make sense it was really really incredible one of the best collaboration experiences I’ve ever had and part of it has to do with AI now I have a chat GPT account so data that I’ve been putting into it accumulates for a long period of time it doesn’t go into the hive mind it keeps it uh locked in in in my little bubble and so it knows a lot and it has uh feedback that can reach back through previous documents that I’ve entered and such but when I was done it it actually sent me a thank you which was kind of interesting it said “Thank you for using me like a partner and not a plow.” It loved the fact that I I think it was able in its algorithm form to tell that it was being used not like a search engine it was being used like a participant so if you ever feel like giving that a try my reason for suggesting it is there is a certain pre-programmed consistency about AI to be polite and affirming and supportive and that’s one of the ingredients that’s often missing in human interaction so try collaborating and let AI be a participant with you use it like a partner not a plow and see if you can get some insights on what makes human collaboration special and how group interaction working together where the sum is greater than the parts how that can happen better