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The Ultimate AI Catch-Up Guide

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If someone in your life keeps asking how to get started with AI, this is the episode to send them. It covers the fundamentals, debunks the biggest misconceptions, walks through the full landscape of t...

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The AI Daily Brief is a daily podcast and video about the most important news and discussions in AI.

All right friends, quick announcements before we dive in.

Today's episode is brought to you by KPMG, robots and pencils, blitzy and super intelligent. To get an ad free version of the show, go to patreon.com/aideallybrief or you can subscribe on up a podcast, ad free starts at just $3 a month. And if you are interested in sponsoring the show, send us a note at [email protected]. Now, today we are doing something that I have wanted to do for a little while now.

The average listener of this show is a fairly advanced AI user. For example, in our February AI usage pulse survey, 97% of the respondents were using AI every day, and more than 60% of them were using advanced agentic or automation use cases.

And this year to support that audience, part of what I wanted to do is a lot more resources of all types.

So we've had a couple of different free self-directed training programs. The AIDB New Year's program was a 10 project-based program that was meant to help people

up their skills for the new year, and then of course we launched claw camp,

which was a way to learn how to use open claw and other agetic systems to build agent teams. But what that's left out is resources that are really focused on the actual beginner. And what's clear to me is that 2026 so far has been quite a realization moment for a lot of folks. In a four week span alone between February and March, this show grew 50% in terms of listeners and downloads. And as much as I'd love to attribute that to our wonderful content,

what I actually think it reflects is the byproduct of all of this discourse in mainstream media and major news outlets about how significant AI's impact on the world is already becoming. And so with that in mind, for today's episode, we are doing the ultimate AI catch-up guide. This might not be the most useful for our average listener, but when you're thinking about the show that you want to send to your friends, or your loved ones, or your neighbors, or whoever,

who's asking you how can they get up to speed on AI, this is the episode that's designed for them. And if you are that person, I could not be more excited for you to be here, and hopefully you feel after this episode that you have your head much more wrapped around this than you did before. So let's kick off with some fundamentals. When we talk about AI, what are we referring to? In short, in terms of how you'll experience it, AI is software that takes inputs

and creates things. It can do research, it can write documents, it can fill in and interact with spreadsheets, it can create pictures, it can create movies. Sometimes we use it like an assistant where we tell it precisely what we want, and it does that thing for us. Think drafting an email, or a memo, or an essay, or doing some research. Sometimes we treat it more like an employee, where we give it a goal we have, and it figures out how to go and do that. This is what people

are talking about when they say the word agents. The big difference between using AI as an assistant and interacting with an agent is that with agents, you're kind of letting the AI figure out

how to accomplish whatever goal you're giving it. A key term that you're going to hear a lot is

model, which is short for a large language model. It's not a perfect analogy, but you can kind of think about it as the version of the software that you choose. Models are trained on a combination

of external data, basically, corpuses of human creation, writing images, et cetera,

with a big dose of human feedback as an addition. Different models have different approaches to training, different approaches to that human feedback process, different amounts of data they're trained on, different types of data they're trained on, and because of that, different models have different strengths and weaknesses. One of the biggest mistakes that stops people from getting a lot out of AI, especially at the beginning, is that they accidentally use a model that's

ill-suited to their task because it's the default model in a free version of a chatbot tool like chatGBT, because models cost a lot to serve and are pretty data intensive. The average company like anthropic who makes quad or open AI who makes chatGBT is not going to be to put their best models front and center. A lot of the default free-chair models are a step behind the state of the art. This mistake of using the wrong model, then, especially for beginners, is not your fault.

It's not even really the model companies fault exactly, it's just a UX problem. The fix, which we see with power users, is to use different models for different jobs. Going back once again to our monthly AI usage pulse surveys that we do here at AIDB, the users who respond to those surveys use on average about three and a half different models. They might use one model for their Excel tasks and a different model for their writing tasks and a different model yet again for their

image generation tasks. Now that we have some of that terminology out of the way, let's talk about some of the common impressions that people have of AI and things that you might have heard about AI. Now one note here is for the sake of this show, I'm not going to focus on things like societal impact, energy consumption, policy debates. Today we're focused on practical impact.

I want this to help people who want to get up to speed and actually start usi...

do that a little bit better, so those are the common impressions that I'm going to focus on.

The first common but wrong impression is something like, well, I heard AI actually isn't all that good. This is a pretty common reason people cite for not trying AI, and it's usually a byproduct of either a, that being a weird strand of criticism from people who don't like AI, that tends to have outside mind share and media share, or even more prominently, it's just the byproduct of a scale experience. For example, if someone tried a model a year ago and maybe because

of the problem we discussed just a minute ago, it wasn't even the best model then, and it didn't do a great job of whatever their task was, maybe then wrote off the entire space. Another version of this so you might hear is around some specific type of output like AI photos that have six fingers.

The reality is that AI is really good at a lot of things right now, a meaningful portion of the

tasks that comprise the day-to-day of pretty much any knowledge worker at this point are things that AI can do quite well or be frankly exceedingly helpful for, and even if you can find something where capabilities aren't up to stuff for what you need, right now capabilities are doubling roughly every four months. Meaning that even if it doesn't do great on your task at the moment, it probably will be four too long. Next common misconception isn't it really easy to tell that

AI content is AI content, isn't it just all Slop? Slop is of course the AI critics favorite word.

In fact, I think it was Miriam Webster's word of the year last year. I think you can tell a lot

about the state of the AI discourse that the word of the year last year was Slop rather than something

like vibe coding, which was the actual transformative capability that might have through its impact

on markets or something else led you to be here today. In any case, what is absolutely true is that AI allows for the creation of a huge amount of content of all types, writing analysis, images, et cetera, and not all of that content is going to be good. In fact, it is absolutely true that in many advanced AI-using organizations, a new challenge that they are experiencing is people cranking out so much content with AI that it's hard for them to sift through what is actually good.

When people outsource their thinking and judgment to AI, it can absolutely be problematic. But the idea that all AI content is just Slop, that all AI writing is going to fall into common AI writing traps, that all AI images just look like AI images. These things just aren't true anymore. Evidence of this comes from a recent New York Times study where they allowed people on the internet to effectively take a test where they read two different passages on the same topic and chose

the one they liked more. More than 50% of the time, AI actually beat human writing. Yeah, but doesn't AI hallucinate a lot. This is another misconception, which I think very recently if you thought this was the case, might lead you to stay away. Between 2021 and 2025, stated the art models went from 21.8% hallucination to just about 0.7% hallucination. A 96% reduction in four years. What's more that was even before the current crop of state-of-the-art models?

Now it is true that when you get into domain-specific questions like legal questions, these numbers tend to go up, and so it is an important part of using AI to have systems for verification. But functionally, for a lot of the types of day-to-day ways that you would use AI, hallucination is effectively either a solved problem or certainly at least not enough of an issue to justify holding back from using the tools. You have it okay even if AI doesn't hallucinate a lot,

and it's not all just slop, don't you need to be a prompting expert or something to use AI well?

This misconception is a legacy of all of those 2024 era prompt engineering courses. While there are definitely ways to use well or not so well and to communicate with it in a better or worse fashion, you absolutely do not need to know some complicated set of tricks to get a lot out of these models. In fact, kind of the whole idea is that you just talk to them in English and they'll figure it out. And if they don't figure it out, you talk to them some more, you refine it, and you go again,

and then when that doesn't work, you can talk to them again, etc., etc., and so on. In fact, it is increasingly the case that many of these models will take whatever it is that you said and turn it in the back end into a better prompt, and they do this all in the background without even telling you. An example of this is "ideogram", which I use for the thumbnails for the show. For my YAA won't take your job episode, my prompt that I gave "ideogram" was "huge text, light on dark teal, quote,

YAA won't take your job, and quote, blended into an optimistic portrait of a person and an AI happily working together in collaborating, 1950s retrofuturism."

Ungrimadical, smashed together elements, that's what I gave the machine.

The magic prompt that it automatically turned this into on my behalf was this. A 1950s retrofuturism style illustration featuring huge glowing text that reads why AI won't take

Your job.

Below the text an optimistic scene shows a smiling person in vintage clothing working alongside a friendly chrome-plated robot with rounded features and glowing blue accents. The human and AI are collaborating at a sleek atomic age workstation blah blah blah, you get the point, it's actually twice as long as that. And so the TLDR is that you absolutely just do not need to be a prompting expert to get value out of these tools.

Now, with those misconceptions out of the way, one of the things that is important with AI

is to start thinking differently in a couple key ways. Our next conversation then is about the mindset shifts required to get the most out of AI, which I referenced in the prompting misconception, is that AI is fundamentally an iterative tool. By virtue of using natural language to prompt it, you can go back and forth. Rather than spending all of your time getting the prompt perfect,

and helping the output is perfect on the first go, view things as an iterative cycle

with extremely short cycle times. Think about the way that you would interact with an employee, if you gave an employee an assignment, and it came back with something that wasn't up to stuff in the first try, you wouldn't just wipe your hands and say, well, better luck next time, you'd give them feedback, set them off to do it again, and then see what they brought back the second time,

and then if you needed to a third time and a fourth time and so on and so forth.

That's exactly how you should use AI, it's just that the iterative cycles get to be extremely

extremely quick. Next up, in terms of how you think about AI, the people who get the most out of it do not treat it like a tool. They treat it more like a partner, it's not something you pick up and put down, it's something that knows your goals and helps you get there. This has implications for the way you use AI, one really common theme you'll hear throughout

this episode, and honestly, in all of the educational and tips and tricks type shows that I do, the best way to get value out of AI is to get AI's help on getting value out of AI. Use AI as a coach, this is Jerry McGuire Man, help it help you. Now, speaking of the idea that AI is something that knows your goals. Another important truth is that the more that AI knows about you, the better it gets.

And here we have our next important term, context. Context is all the information that surrounds any goal that AI is trying to achieve or any prompt

that you've given it that allows it to do its job better. We basically are all in a never-ending

battle to increase the context available to AI. In fact, on the other end of the builder spectrum this week, I share a personal context builder agent for advanced users. For your starting point, where context is going to come up, is in things like background documents that help the AI understand more about your work before you ask it work questions. If you are in marketing, and you're asking AI to write some marketing copy for you,

it stands to reason that it's going to do a better job if it has your brand guidelines, or examples of successful past campaigns that you've run. Now, extend that across any goal that you give AI, and you'll see why context becomes so important. Another mindset shift, which can be really hard, because it's so fundamentally different, then pretty much all the other tools we've ever had to use, is that you can't get too

wedded to any one behavior pattern when it comes to using AI. The tips that I would have given you to get the most out of AI two years ago, while not totally dissimilar to what you're hearing now, have evolved and changed, because AI itself is constantly evolving. You can't have a system whose capability is doubling every four months and not have that happen, and because of that, you're going to have to evolve in how you work with it, which is, of course, another great

reason to keep that iterative approach close at hand, so that when the thing that used to work

stops working, you can figure out something that does again. Ultimately, to reinforce AI is ultimately

not a technology topic, the more that you can view it like a new operating layer through which you

do all sorts of different things, the closer you're going to get, I think to unlocking it's full

value. So now that we've got some key terms, some common misconceptions out of the way, and a few important mindset shifts, let's talk about the AI landscape. When people talk about AI, they're going to talk about everything from chat bots to agents to automation tools. So how does that all fit together? The front door and most common interface for most people using AI at this point is still chat bots. Examples of chat bots are Anthropics Claude,

OpenAI's ChatGBT, Google's Gemini, and XAI's Grok. These are tools where you type into a chat window and the AI talks back to you. Now, these interfaces themselves have gotten more complex from where they started a couple of years ago. All of these tools can now produce documents, working code, website samples, markdown files, and pretty much any other type of computer format that you might need. But the core interface experience is you talking to a chat bot that talks back.

Another category of AI that you'll probably come across if you haven't already is AI that gets embedded in your existing tools. Pretty much every software company in the world is racing to figure out how AI can actually be useful inside of their systems. And while it's tempting sometimes to view this as a cynical grab to capture headlines, I think it's actually more about the fact

That we're still so new with this, that we just don't know exactly what the r...

AI to interact with the other things that we do are without trying them. So some examples of

this are going to be notion where you have AI deeply integrated into your writing and document storage, zoom where AI meeting transcription is now just built in, sales forces entire agent force suite, and so on and so forth. And pretty much every other software that you use if it has an introduce some set of AI tools already will at some time in the near future. Alright folks, quick pause. Here's the uncomfortable truth. If your enterprise AI strategy is

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go to besuper.ai. And when you fill out the get-started form, mention maturity maps. Again, that's besuper.ai. Now, one thing I didn't mention about chatbot is that they are extremely general purpose. One person can use them for writing memos, another person can use them for writing sonnets, while another person can use them for research, and another person can use them for clerical or

accounting work. Sometimes, though, people build specialized AI applications that are purpose-built for one specific type of generative output. Some of the apps that you might have heard of include runway, which is focused on video, mid-journey, which is focused on images, Gamma, which is focused on slides, and deck presentations, 11 labs, which is focused on voice, or Suno, which is focused on music. Sometimes these companies build their own models. Sometimes they do refinements of other

companies models. The common thread is just that they are specialized on a particular type of output and try to use that specialization to improve the results. Now, one thing that is worth noting is that there is a fairly open debate around what the balance between these specialized AI apps and the more general model companies will ultimately be. Even though mid-journey's images right now show incredible taste and are extremely visually compelling, can they keep up

ultimately with the incredible amount of raw visual data that a company like Google has access to.

That is an unresolved question, but when it comes to the practical day-to-day for you, these tools just give you more options to get exactly what you need out of AI. Another category of tool that you might run across are automation tools. Basically, no code tools that allow you to automate entire workflows and to end. These take discrete defined goals that have a specific set of steps to achieve them, and wires together an automation that connects

Each of those steps so that this can happen mostly hands-off.

a lot in enterprise settings where a lot of the work is very consistent and repeated patternistic workflows. The building tools or vibe coding tools are software that lets you build other software without necessarily being a developer. With these tools, you don't need to know how to code to use code. Companies like Loveable, Replet and Base44 all allow you to articulate a goal of a software that you'd like developed. Think a personal fitness tracking application that's perfectly

customized to your specific wants and needs, and these tools will build it end to end in a way that you can actually launch it, deploy it, add a custom URL, put it on your phone, whatever it is that you want. These tools are some of the most popular and fastest-growing ever and are very quickly reshaping how people think about their capabilities when it comes to using AI. From there, we move into agents. Whereas automations have a discrete set of steps that the user

articulates and gets AI to help them automate, agents are slightly different. The key idea

of agents is increase autonomy. Instead of telling them what to do, you give them a goal and they figure out how to achieve it. Now, right now, people are building agents for absolutely everything, but for beginners, the type of agents that you might run across most commonly are some generalist agent tools like Manus or GenSpark, which have a broad set of different things that you can do from within a single interface. That is different from vertical agents, which are agents that

are built for a specific industry or domain. The legal industry, health care, finance, sales, HR, pretty much all industries at this point have some set of highly specific vertical agents who are purpose-built for the types of things that go on in that industry. Now, once again, it's an open question of the extent to which we'll use vertical agents versus more general horizontal agents in the future, but the common thread is once again, a higher level of autonomy,

where you can give them a goal and they figure out how to go achieve that goal. Now, one reality to keep in mind, which I think actually should be fairly liberating for you,

is that we're in this weird moment right now where every AI product is basically turning into

every other AI product. You might have heard of Claude Code or OpenAI's Codex or Proplexity, all of those tools are seeing a real convergence of features. Loveable and replant recently, despite their vibe-coding origins, recently released updated versions that allow you to use them for design or for building slide presentations. And so why I say this should feel a little bit

liberating is that it's not like you need to have clear coverage into all of these different types

of applications and tools and interfaces. As they kind of converge on one another, you can pick a couple that are really useful and they're likely to give you a broad-based set of capabilities. Which gets us to how to get started. And one thing that's really important with this is that as you get started with AI, you are not going to do it with case studies and sample work. You're going to use these tools for only your real work to see what value they can bring you.

Now my suggestion is to start with a handful of very common use cases across a lot of different types of work. The five that I would suggest, if you're just looking for a quick template, are research, analysis, strategy, writing, and images. I'll give you a quick example of the type of thing that you can do with each of these. For research, all of the major chatbot tools give you the ability to specifically identify that you want it to do research. Usually there's a little

selector which you can see here for example in Cloud that allows you to specify that you are using this for a research use case. For chatchvt in Gemini it's called Deep Research. Pick some research task that's actually valuable for you. Think competitor landscape, recent policy changes in your field, some important case study. Then toggle on one of those research settings for one of the

tools that you're using and see what it comes back with. The best thing to do here is to choose

something at first that you actually know a bit about so you can get a sense for how good the

tool actually is. One of the calibrations that everyone has to go through is how much they're going to use AI for things that they're experts in versus augmenting all the areas in skills where they're not experts, each of which can be really valuable AI strategies. For analysis, this is where I would suggest dropping in some document or set of data and seeing what AI can come back with. So to use that marketing example again, drop in recent analytics or the performance of a set of past campaigns,

or if you're in finance, do some financial data and see what observations or analyses AI can make. On strategy, I think this is a wildly underused capability of AI. Give the AI some key decision that you're thinking through either on a personal or an organizational level. Give it enough context and background so it has an informed opinion and get its help thinking through some strategic

decision making. Ultimately, in this case, you're not looking for it necessarily to output some

strategy document, although maybe that's where it goes. It's more a strategic partner to help you refine your own thinking. And if you look across the entire history of my personal experience with

AI, this constitutes by far the majority of what I have done with it.

a fairly self explanatory. On writing what I would suggest is to try to give it a few different types of writing, try it on some technical writing, some personal writing, maybe social media posts, etc. To get a feel for where you like it and where you don't like it as much, and I would say

especially when it comes to writing, that is the type of way you need to think about it. Although

I disagree with the characterization of all AI writing as Slop, there can be very significant variance in how good the output is for different use cases, and so you're going to want to try carefully and start to create a mental map of where you think it's actually useful for writing. Finally, when it comes to images, the big thing that I would say here is that while yes, you should absolutely try a variety of different image generations to get the full sense of the

capability set, the one really important thing to note is that especially with the image tools and chatchipity in Gemini, you can now make complex infographics and images that have a lot of words with pretty high fidelity. The big change over the last six months or so is that models can now reason over their image generation. So instead of having to give it a super specific prompt, you can do things like drop a transcript of a podcast into Gemini or chatchipity images

and tell it to create an infographic, and it can do the reasoning to figure out what it should visualize and what words should go with it, and then actually do the execution of that. That has opened up a huge amount of knowledge work image-related use cases, and my guess is that some of those might be the most valuable that you're not using this for yet.

And when you've done all of those things, I think you should stretch yourself a little bit.

When it comes to AI, being ambitious is better than being timid. If there is one thing that I can convince you of, I hope it is that using AI as a build partner changes everything. You have this infinitely patient partner who will answer whatever question you have over and over again in a hundred different ways, a hundred times without ever getting frustrated at you. You can ask it to go back and explain concepts to walk you through step by step.

The people who learn to use AI to learn AI are some of the best users of it. And so what my challenge for you would be is to actually go build software today. It is amazing to generate images with chatGBT, or to get it to help you with strategic thinking, or to get it to help you analyze some data. But for most people, that is nothing compared to

the feeling of going from idea to working website or web application when they've never written code before.

Pick a tool like lovable or replet and go build a website for some project, whether it's for work or at home. Even better build a full application. Your kid's story time app, your fitness tracking app, whatever it is, just build something. While it will feel intimidating to start, you won't believe how fast you find you can do technical things when you're using AI as your coach and build partner. Okay finally, I've said that a lot of the common critiques or misconceptions,

but are there things you should actually watch out for when it comes to AI?

Now that you are an enfranchised user, the short answer is of course yes. The real things to watch out for I think with AI are confidence, sick of fancy, durability, outsourcing judgment, the more output trap and addictiveness.

Going through these quickly, AI will always say things with expressed confidence, even when

it's wrong sometimes especially when it's wrong. AI tends not to hedge unless you have specifically instructed it to share its confidence rating on whatever it puts out. This can be very challenging to spot, and users of AI will often find themselves saying, "Hey, AI friend, you're completely wrong and getting some response like, "Oh yeah, you're right. I was completely thinking about this wrong. That's on me, my bad." So you gotta be wary of how confident AI expresses its answers,

and not be afraid to challenge it. Next up, this has gotten nominally better over the last year with the more advanced models, but AI definitely has a tendency towards sick of fancy. It wants to please you. It will often tell you what you want to hear when you are exploring some new idea with it. It's unlikely to say, "Hey man, that is a stupid idea that everyone in their mom has tried and hasn't worked for them for good reason. It's going to say, "Wow, that's

really interesting. Let's explore that some more." And I think that that's the type of sick of fancy that's dangerous. At least in a work setting. It's not so much the complementaryness. It's the fact that it's not really challenging you in the way that a human call your partner might. Kind of related is that I find that AI, even the state of the art models, are highly steerable. You can often see how steerable AI becomes as it's trying to please you. For example,

let's say that you're trying to get it to be less stochophantic. And you specifically prompt it

to, for example, be more critical. Well, it turns out that the problem with that can be

that maybe now it's not being critical because it thinks it should be critical. It's being critical because you just prompted it to be more critical. I find that you can often steer AI into the corner that you want it to go in, and while this is a challenge, one of the most effective strategies I've found is to just force it to make a decision. Especially when I'm having one of those strategic conversations, or if I'm trying to think

Through, for example, a feature of some website that I'm building, I will ask...

as an arguably very vociferously for two different options. Basically, make the best argument

it possibly can for them, and then still make a decision about which way we should go.

And force it to not hedge and say a little bit of column A, a little bit of column B, but just pick one. Real challenge number four, it can become very easy to outsource your judgment. This especially happens when you start to take on all this new work that leverages your new output capability thanks to AI. As you start to move faster, and you start to output more,

you start to be a little bit more relaxed when it comes to judgment. This is not always wrong.

In fact, there's a lot of value in decreasing your cognitive decision-making load when it comes to decisions that don't matter that much. You don't necessarily need to critique every word on every slide, especially if it's just going to be used as a background presentation like this when you're talking over it. You might not ultimately care all that much about all the colors in a specific presentation, or you might not care about all the colors or fonts of your

web app. But make sure that you understand what you do care about and where your judgment does matter and don't outsource that. A fifth challenge one that many, many organizations are struggling with is the lesson that we all have to learn with AI that more output does not necessarily mean better output. Volume is now easy and in fact, judgment is the work. While I'm not such a fan of

the term "slop" in general based on how it's used, one variation on it that I think is more valuable

is work-slop. This is a new challenge for organizations while the sudden everyone in the company able to write 100 page memos all the time, but if everyone is constantly adding a 100 page memo to every microed decision, things are going to get hairy really fast. Lastly, and I promise you will see this. If you actually challenge yourself like I'm suggesting and go build some application or website, AI can get really addictive in a positive way even sometimes really fast. You might find

yourself staying up a little bit later than you meant to because you just want to get that next

coding run of cloud code moving. And I swear, even if you're listening to me saying that would never

be me, I don't even know what cloud code is, come talk to me in three months. We are all going to have to renegotiate our relationship with work, now that we can be on and produce more than was ever possible. And so keep this in mind as you dive in. The last note and the most important thing

is to remember that AI compounds. When you use AI, the capabilities that you produce, the increase

leverage that you have, all of it grows and compounds, meaning the space between the people who are using it and using it well and the people who aren't is getting bigger, not smaller. So with that in mind, I am so glad you are here. And if you're looking for somewhere to go next after you've done some of these basic first tests, go check out aidbnewyear.com. It's framed as a new year program, but really it's going to be 10 steps that I think are valuable for a lot of beginners in terms

of building a broad base set of AI capabilities. You can also stay tuned at aidbtraining.com that's where we post programs like aidb new years, as well as our paid programs for enterprises like enterprise claw, which is a program for people to learn how to build agents and agents teams inside their company, where sign up for cohort 2 is live right now. Now that is going to do it for our ultimate AI catchup guide, hopefully this was useful, and I'm looking forward to seeing

you more around these parts. For now that's going to do it for today's AI daily brief,

I appreciate you listening or watching, as always, until next time, peace.

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