Maryrose Lyons has spent 25 years helping firms through every wave of new technology, and generative AI is the biggest she's seen. These days she runs the AI Institute, working alongside construction, engineering, architecture and QS teams across Ireland, the UK and EMEA, and has upskilled more than 2,800 professionals along the way. She's the voice behind the ChattingGPT podcast. Each bi-weekly edition pairs a piece of her thinking on AI at work with the latest episode. Pull up a chair with more than 5,800 readers.
Why Leaders Freeze on AI (and How to Break Through)
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Maryrose Lyons, Founder of the AI Institute
Maryrose Lyons has spent 25 years helping firms through every wave of new technology, and generative AI is the biggest she's seen. These days she runs the AI Institute, working alongside construction, engineering, architecture and QS teams across Ireland, the UK and EMEA, and has upskilled more than 2,800 professionals along the way. She's the voice behind the ChattingGPT podcast. Each bi-weekly edition pairs a piece of her thinking on AI at work with the latest episode. Pull up a chair with more than 5,800 readers.
Hi Reader! An architect friend asked me something over coffee a few weeks ago and I still haven't managed to put it down. If AI halves the hours she spends on a project, does that saving go back to the client? Or are they paying her for the skill? She's well ahead of most in her use of AI, she's just asking the uncomfortable question: the better she gets, does that mean invoicing less? Or does it mean invoicing more - more clients, and a premium for being the practice that delivers faster?...
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Hello Reader! By the end of four Tuesday mornings you will be drafting client reports from raw meeting notes in minutes, and you will know exactly what you can and cannot put into an AI tool without creating a problem for yourself. That is what Core AI Skills is for. The autumn cohort starts on Tuesday 15 September. Most people arrive a little nervous. That is normal, and it tends to be the ones who arrive nervous who get the most out of it. What you leave able to do Turn raw notes and...