Exploring AI

“Knowledge grows when it is shared. Not hoarded like a secret treasure, but spread wide and far like seeds in a fertile field.”

— An anonymous quote that Microsoft Copilot gave me

As I write this, it is February 4, 2025.

AI has taken off in a big way (a big way) over the past couple of years, and I made it my personal mission to AI-proof my career about a year ago. Honestly, this started off as an exercise in self-preservation. I found the rapid rise in AI frightening, and immediately started dreaming up all the ways the robots were coming after my job.

I then started to read, and study, and listen and discuss and experiment with AI. And I proved myself right: AI can do a lot of the things that I do at a passable level. Things that would’ve been inconceivable a few years ago. But I found it exciting and exhilarating, and not frightening or overwhelming.

As I’ve been learning, I’ve been taking so many notes to document my findings and I’ve decided to share them here for everyone and anyone! Gatekeeping is not for me because a rising tide lifts all boats.

However, a few caveats:

  1. This resource hub is designed for the general public with no/limited AI experience, predominantly people in advertising or the music industry.

  2. I’m not an expert. Please do your due diligence before you make any drastic life changes based on anything I’ve shared.

  3. If you found this useful, please share this with others!

  4. And on that note, I am doing this out of the goodness of my heart. Please credit me if you share any of my thoughts and opinions, and don’t try to monetise my learnings for yourself. See: opening quote about not being a gatekeeper!

P.S. I took the photograph at the top of this page in a busy alleyway outside of The Duke of Clarence in Sydney. , and their vegetarian pub feed pictured here. There were a few other stragglers in the courtyard, all with a beer in hand, deep in conversations. I kept looking up at the most brilliantly blue sliver of sky, and wondering why no one else could see it. This is how I feel about artificial intelligence: energised and hoping that others will join me at looking up at the blue sky of possibilities.

❤️ Paige

Exploring AI: Resources

The Basics

Start here if you need a primer on what AI is. This is enough info that you could reasonable participate in a convo about AI over Friday night drinks without having a panic attack.

(In progress.)

AI 101

A non-exhaustive and ever growing list of key terms and interesting concepts about AI.

AI Book Club

I read (and am reading) a bunch of books related to AI so you don’t have to.

With summaries of what the books cover off and who I reckon would get the most out of each.

There’s An AI For That

Compiling a (largely untested) list of AIs to do my bidding.

Spaghetti Questions

My big, messy questions about AI (mostly ethics) and my equally as messy answers.

(In progress.)

Is Sustainability in AI an Oxymoron?

Reviewing what makes AI terrible for the environment and how this can be mitigated.

(In progress.)

AI-Proof Careers

My thoughts on how to AI-proof your career so you can survive, or even thrive in a post-consumer AI world.

(In progress, and hopefully I don’t eat my words later.)