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Week 4: The AI tools for work landscape

Led by Cliff Worley, AI tools guru and Head of Portfolio Marketing at Kapor Capital

US/EMEA cohort: Tuesday, July 29 at 9am PT | 12pm ET | 5pm UK
Pacific cohort: Monday, July 28 at 4pm PT | Tuesday, July 29 at 9am AEST

Overview

In this session, we got an overview of the gen AI tools for work landscape hosted by Cliff Worley, AI tools guru and Head of Portfolio Marketing at Kapor Capital.

Note that we are now fully into Capstone Project mode, meaning no more weekly Workouts from here on out. Project brief here.

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Key points

  • Cliff shared his mission: to help people learn how to “drive the tractor” — not fear new tech, but use it

  • Highlights AI’s explosive growth: over 37,000 tools now available (1,000 added in the last week alone), according to There’s An AI For That

  • Compared ChatGPT’s user growth (100M in 2 months) to TikTok and Instagram to show AI’s rapid adoption.. 🤯

  • Frames today’s AI moment as similar to the early days of the internet — confusing, messy, but full of opportunity

  • Introduces key mindset: AI is your “universal intern” — useful at any stuck point, but only if you give it proper context

  • Urges a culture of experimentation over perfection — trial and error is essential

  • Underscores urgency: AI fluency is already being embedded in hiring, onboarding, and performance reviews at leading firms

  • Cliff’s closing tips:

    • Embrace AI playtime

    • Collaborate & share how you’re using AI in your team

    • Embrace tool stacking — you may need to use more than one to get the result you’re after

    • Go after low-hanging fruit to start, like emails, meetings.. how can AI help you with these?

    • Ask your AI chatbot to write your prompt for you (aka meta-prompting, as we learned last week :))

    • It’s the wild west out there and a lot of tools are half-baked

    • Don’t miss the boat on AI!!

Session slides

Access Cliff’s slides and full list of AI tools mentioned in the session here