It's time to think twice if you still believe that artificial intelligence is just fairy dust. AI is making more creative people more creative — and giving them much more time to unleash their imagination, inventiveness, and innovation. Maria Flores Portillo, Vice President at Persado and today's guest, believes AI technology can alleviate and automate repetitive, data-heavy tasks marketers are still doing today. Maria discusses how AI will not only unlock your creative potential, but also make better things – coming to conclusions that us, humans, would never be able to find!
It's time to embrace AI, not to hide from it. And if you knew what it could do for you, as Maria shares, why would you ever want to?
To any marketer still feeling skeptical about AI: as Maria says, "demystify it!" AI isn't like Terminator portrays it, nor will some robot come take your job. Educate yourself and learn all you can. Then, find a specific use case based on one aspect of your marketing process you want to resolve, optimize, automate, or improve.
Using AI is a choice. Instead of spending ridiculous amounts of time sorting through spreadsheets, choose more time for strategy. Where you once manually created marketing messages for each customer, choose machine learning. In lieu of repetitive tasks that ring you dry by day's end, choose automation. These are all byproducts of using AI.
Third, as Maria alludes to, AI is a double-edged sword. It can help detach us from our very human laziness and biases… but we also have to be careful, collectively, to make sure our algorithms are processing all of this data in an unbiased way. We have to collect, manage, and store data — and write and program our machines — so that they avoid bias in any way, but still achieve what we need.
Artificial intelligence isn't "easy." But choosing to leverage it to make you more creative and more efficient… that's a simple decision to make. And the benefits will be well worth it.