Artificial intelligence (AI) has been changing the world for a good few years now, and the technology powers everything from search engines to smart cities and self-driving cars. Like it or not, AI is the future.
But what does AI mean when it comes to public speaking? Can AI tools help us to better prepare ourselves and perhaps even create scripts that we can follow? Or are we still years away from the technology reaching that level?
In today’s article, we’re going to take a little look at just that.
If there’s one thing that we’ve learned about artificial intelligence in the last six months or so, it’s that up-and-coming tools like ChatGPT have the potential to totally revolutionize the way we create content.
This is true for things like social media updates and blog posts, but it’s also true for the scripts that we use and the notes that we speak from. We’re not even far from tools that could create presentations for us so that we don’t have to spend as much time messing around with PowerPoint.
AI writers can definitely help us to prepare for our speaking. All we have to do is to give them the right prompts and they’ll come back to us with all of the research we need to create a kick-ass presentation.
The good news is that ChatGPT in particular is pretty good at doing research. Sure, it might not quite be ready to write a full script or to create your slides for you, but it can easily do the grunt work, a bit like having a virtual assistant to do your Googling for you.
ChatGPT is also pretty good at outlining, which is one of the main uses that today’s novelists are getting out of it. The algorithm can take care of the outline and then we can use our own human oversight to improve upon it.
You might think from the last section that the problem is solved and that the question has been answered, but that’s not the full story. Even with the help of AI, we’re still going to need human oversight to take the research notes that AI provides us with and to build that out into a full presentation.
We also have to bear in mind that we risk wasting huge swathes of time trying to create the perfect prompt for AI tools and still fail in the task. In a lot of cases, it would be easier (and quicker) just to do the work ourselves.
There’s no denying that AI has come a long way in the last couple of years, but it’s also easy to argue that we’re a long way from it actually being useful. In many ways, the current generation of AI writing tools are toys to play with, rather than serious pieces of kit that every public speaker will need to be familiar with.
Still, we need to make sure that we’re aware of these tools and that we’re able to use them, even if they’re not necessarily mission critical. You can think of it as being a little bit like testing out new presentation tools, such as getting to know how to use Prezi or learning your way around Canva for creating images.
Trying out tools like these might not be a priority for you, but if you get the chance then it can’t hurt to get to know them in your downtime. If you can find a way to integrate them into your workflow, then there’s no reason why you shouldn’t use them. If you can’t, it’s not going to be the end of the world.
As you can probably tell from the arguments for and against AI writers, the question of whether AI writers can help you to prepare your presentations is really unanswerable. It depends on too many variables, from which tools you’re using to your level of experience with them and what you’re hoping to get them to do.
In fact, the only thing that we can truly say with full certainty is that AI tools are here to stay and that they’ll change our lives in more ways than we could ever know from looking at the state of the marketplace today.
And it’s not just AI writing tools that public speakers should be aware of. For example, AI powers a lot of real-time translation and transcription tools that are being used out in the wild, as well as the algorithms of the social networking sites and search engines that we rely on to build our brands and make our voices heard.
With any new piece of technology, there are always those who see it as more of a threat than an opportunity. As public speakers, we need to be aware of new technologies like AI writers, and we need to adopt them when the time is ready. However, we also need to appreciate that sometimes, the time isn’t quite right.
In the end, perhaps the best way to illustrate whether AI can help you to prepare for your public speaking engagements or not is to use this article as an example. So the question becomes that of whether we used any AI tools to work on this article, and the answer to that is a resounding no.
Now that we’ve shared our thoughts on whether AI writers could help you to prepare your public speaking, we want to hear from you. What are your thoughts on using AI tools for public speaking? And have you ever experimented with them?
As always, we’d love to hear your thoughts, so be sure to let us know in the comments so that we can keep the discussion going. You can also follow us on your favorite social networking sites for more. We’ll see you soon for another article!
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