Almost Anyone Can Be Successful With A.I.
<p>Wait. Don’t answer that yet. Because I don’t want to get into a debate about coding skills. Not yet. What I’d rather talk about are the soft skills you need to be successful with A.I. (<a href="https://jproco.medium.com/these-are-the-skills-you-need-to-save-your-job-from-a-i-d58d4141a250" rel="noopener">or in spite of it</a>), and how they have little to do with writing code.</p>
<h1>Hiring an Army of Natural Language Generators</h1>
<p>I was a part of one of the first VC-backed Natural Language Generation (Generative A.I.) successes, Automated Insights, starting back in 2010. I invented the part of our platform and ran the side of the house that brought the A.I. skills that weren’t code-specific.</p>
<p>Now, to be transparent, I am a developer. But I was tasked with hiring a small army of people who could provide the knowledge to be able to turn data into words — words that had more meaning than just looking at the data itself.</p>
<p>In other words, I had to find people who could not just use A.I., but could <em>succeed</em> with A.I.</p>
<p>Back in 2010, when NLG was a new thing, even before it had a name, I had no idea what those necessary skills might be, and it took a lot of trial and error to figure it out.</p>
<h1>Why These Skills Are Important</h1>
<p>I’m a big proponent of no-code and low-code. One of the arguments I make to support the no-code movement, and one that gets me into trouble with “real” coders, is that all of us, myself included, are just manipulating someone else’s lower-level code.</p>
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