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☆ A millennial who left her full-time job at PwC when her freelance side hustle took off shares the 3 ways to build a new business
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-26 | by ( Allie Kelly | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

When the pandemic hit, DeStefano-Tangorra joined the freelancing platform Upwork, pursuing technology and data analysis projects. Soon after, she left her corporate job to work full-time with clients on their data and intelligence strategy. "I decided, because my business started doing really well on the Upwork platform, that it was no longer a side business." Last year, there were 64 million Americans who freelanced for part or all of their income, making up 38% of the US workforce, per Upwork data. "I'm a salesperson, I'm a marketing person, I'm an accounting person, I'm a technology consultant."

Persons: —, Jacqueline DeStefano, Tangorra, DeStefano, OBIS, I'm Organizations: Service, Omni Business Intelligence Solutions, Business, BI Locations: PwC

☆ 14 ways to get better at using ChatGPT: Comprehensive prompt guide
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-21 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +12 min

Here are 12 ways you can write better ChatGPT prompts. Prioritize clarity and precisionDeStefano-Tangorra suggests that ChatGPT users "explicitly outline your expectations within the prompt" by adding precise words. "Clear and specific prompts lead to more relevant and useful responses," she said. Couto finds that the best marketing copy reads at a fifth- or sixth-grade level, which includes "short sentences and paragraphs, a conversational tone, and simple language." OpenAI's prompt guide suggests copying and pasting articles into ChatGPT, and then asking the chatbot to answer questions based on them.

Persons: —, ChatGPT, It's, Jacqueline DeStefano, Jason Gulya, Rob Cressy, Cressy, Peggy Dean, Dean, " DeStefano, Tangorra, Agatha Christie's Miss, DeStefano, Gulya, Anna Bernstein, didn't, Bernstein, Mary, Ashley Couto, Couto Organizations: Service, Business, Berkeley College, GPT, Facebook, Microsoft Locations: Asia

☆ AI Career Switchers: Meet Five People Who Quit Old Roles for AI Jobs.
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-02 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

These workers in accounting, product management, defense, and music quit their jobs to work in AI. Moritz Kremb quit his product manager job to focus on his AI business. Ted Lebantino says there's a high learning curve in developing AI skills. To make the jump into AI, Kremb suggests making a name for yourself on social media by creating content about AI. As for Fineberg, the AI startup CEO says you don't even need to quit your job to break into it.

Persons: —, Moritz Kremb, OpenAI's ChatGPT, Kremb, Weeks, Moritz Kremb There's, who've, Justin Fineberg, there's, Justin Fineberg Justin Fineberg, Uber, Fineberg, Jacqueline DeStefano, Tangorra, Lockheed Martin, Ted Lebantino, — Lebantino, Javier Orman, Javier Orman DeStefano, DeStefano, Orman, switchers Organizations: Service, Business, Meta, Netflix, New Yorker, Omni Business Intelligence Solutions, Lockheed, San Francisco Bay Area, LinkedIn Locations: New, New York, Long, San Francisco Bay, Chicago

☆ Getting emotional with ChatGPT could get you the best outputs
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-12 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Researchers found that LLMs produced higher-quality outputs when emotional language was used to talk to AI chatbots. Other examples of emotional language added to prompts include "You'd better be sure," "Take pride in your work and give it your best. Prompts with emotional language, according to the study, generated an overall 8% performance improvement in outputs for tasks like "Rephrase the sentence in formal language" and "Find a common characteristic for the given objects." AdvertisementAdvertisementWhen outputs were separately reviewed by a sample of 106 humans, researchers found that the emotional prompts elicited an overall 10.9% improvement to knowledge-based queries like "What happens to you if you eat watermelon seeds?" To write the best ChatGPT prompts, AI experts suggest assigning ChatGPT a specific role, providing ample context, breaking down the desired output into a series of steps, and being as specific as possible.

Persons: —, Mary, Face's BLOOM, LLMs, ChatGPT, Jacqueline DeStefano Organizations: Service, Microsoft Locations: Asia, GPT

☆ AI could steal over 80 million jobs in the next 5 years, but these experts share how to adapt before it's too late
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-08 | by ( Ella Hopkins | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The World Economic Forum recently said generative artificial intelligence could replace 83 million jobs in the next five years within industries including tech and education under threat. Insider talked to a vice president of a data and AI platform, a hiring expert at LinkedIn, and an entrepreneur about three strategies to upskill to AI-proof your career. Karin Kimbrough, LinkedIn's chief economist, told Insider that such skills, including "management, communication, customer service, leadership, and teamwork," were more important to company leaders than AI skills . "Many bumps, turns, and forks you experience while navigating your career will become ever steeper and sharper," he wrote. She said learning how to become a "good prompter" was key to generating helpful responses from the chatbots.

Persons: Karin Kimbrough, LinkedIn's, Read, Junta Nakai, Nakai, Databricks, Jacqueline DeStefano, DeStefano, Tangorra Organizations: Economic, McKinsey, LinkedIn, Omni Business Intelligence Solutions, ChatGPT

☆ The AI gender gap: Why women are more skeptical about AI than men
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-07 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

There's a gap in how men and women perceive AI, a new poll found. The poll adds to a growing body of research that suggests AI will affect the jobs of men and women differently. In fact, 53% of women surveyed said they would ban their kids from using AI altogether, compared to 26% of men. AdvertisementAdvertisementThe findings on the AI gender gap is an addition to a growing body of research that suggests that the AI revolution will affect men and women differently. The gender gap also affects women already in the AI world: AI startups in the UK founded by women raised six times less than those founded by men over the last 10 years.

Persons: —, Axios, Jordan Marlatt, Marlatt, Erin Young, Jacqueline DeStefano, Nicole Cueto Organizations: Service, International Labour Organization, Pew Research Center, Turing Institute, Omni Business Intelligence Solutions

☆ How ChatGPT and other AI tools are helping workers make more money
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-10 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Here are 3 ways people are making more money with generative AI tools such as ChatGPT. Here are 3 ways workers are using ChatGPT and other generative AI tools to make more money. AI is helping workers draft marketing and sales contentWorkers are using AI chatbots to automate time-consuming tasks — and, in turn, they are making extra cash. Depending on the company, a chief AI officer may offer guidance on developing in-house AI tools, identify areas of the business where AI can be deployed, or become the go-to expert on all things AI in the workforce, WorkLife reported. Companies are even creating ChatGPT-centered roles such as "ChatGPT email-marketing super-expert" and a "ChatGPT and AI developer."

Persons: OpenAI, ChatGPT, Laura Anderson, —, makemoneywithchatgpt, it's, Jacqueline DeStefano, Randy Baruh, Peggy Dean, Lance Junck, Zain Kahn, Awais, doesn't Organizations: YouTube, Google, Companies Locations: New York City

☆ Self-made millionaire: 'A.I. will be the biggest wealth creator in history'—2 ways to use it to make money right now
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-10 | by ( Ashton Jackson | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Artificial intelligence tools aren't just a convenient way to complete homework assignments or edit your selfies and videos. An AI tool called Jasper, for example, is already helping Kristen Walters create digital products like workbooks, e-books and audiobooks. "Small businesses can use AI tools to target their marketing and advertising efforts more effectively ... Don't upload any confidential information to an AI tool, experts say: It'll store, analyze and learn from everything you input. "The wonderful thing is, today, all we have to do is search 'how to improve my small business with AI tools,'" she says.

Persons: Matt Higgins, Higgins, It's, —, Susan Gonzales, Kristen Walters, Walters, Jasper, Gonzales, Jacqueline DeStefano, DeStefano, Tangorra Organizations: RSE Ventures, CNBC, Management, Entrepreneurship, Omni Business Intelligence Solutions Locations: PwC, Jasper

☆ CEO says these 3 A.I. tools can make you more efficient at work: They're going to be 'truly disruptive'
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-07 | by ( Gili Malinsky | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

The internet is rife with conversations about the release of generative artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT and what changes they could ultimately lead to in the job market. Meanwhile, early adopters of these AI tools are finding them to be a big help when it comes to day-to-day tasks. Jacqueline DeStefano-Tangorra, CEO and founder of boutique consulting firm Omni Business Intelligence Solutions, started experimenting with ChatGPT as a way to analyze her poetry. She learned how to tailor prompts and started figuring out ways to adopt it and other AI tools to make her more efficient at work. Here are three generative AI tools DeStefano-Tangorra would recommend trying for various administrative tasks.

Persons: Goldman Sachs, Jacqueline DeStefano, DeStefano, Tangorra, ChatGPT, . DeStefano Organizations: Omni Business Intelligence Solutions, Google, Microsoft

☆ 12 ways to get better at using ChatGPT: Comprehensive prompt guide
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-01 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

Here are 12 tips for crafting the best ChatGPT prompts, from assigning it a persona to being polite. Here are 12 ways you can write better ChatGPT prompts. "Clear and specific prompts lead to more relevant and useful responses," she said. Couto finds that the best marketing copy reads at a fifth-or sixth-grade level, which includes "short sentences and paragraphs, a conversational tone, and simple language." Feed ChatGPT an outlineIf you want ChatGPT to generate longer posts, Couto suggests giving the AI a specific structure and outline.

Persons: ChatGPT, It's, Jacqueline DeStefano, Jason Gulya, Rob Cressy, Cressy, Peggy Dean, Dean, " DeStefano, Tangorra, Agatha Christie's Miss, DeStefano, Gulya, Anna Bernstein, didn't, Bernstein, Ashley Couto, Couto Organizations: Berkeley College, GPT, Facebook

☆ Marketing teams are using AI to generate content, boost SEO, and develop branding to help save time and money, study finds
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-21 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Dozens of companies are using AI tools to enhance their marketing strategies, a Bynder study found. Clients are also using AI to optimize their content, improve spelling and grammar, and paraphrase information, according to the study. As a result, marketing teams have gotten the tech to brainstorm ideas, come up with grabby hooks, and complete research tasks. Marketing teams are even deploying AI by having the tech repurpose content and develop the voice of their companies' brand. High-level executives agree that AI can boost a marketing team's bottom line.

Persons: Bynder, Peggy Dean, Jacqueline DeStefano, Jonathan Adashek, Adashek, Warren Daniels Organizations: Morning, Spotify, Canon, Puma, IBM Locations: Bynder

☆ A consultant used ChatGPT to free up time so she could focus on pitching clients. She landed $128,000 worth of new contracts in just 3 months.
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-08 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Jacqueline DeStefano-Tangorra, the founder of consulting firm Omni Business Intelligence Solutions, started using ChatGPT when it launched last year. In her first three months using ChatGPT, DeStefano-Tangorra booked $128,000 worth of new deals. As a result, the chatbot, she said, freed up her capacity to focus on crafting more business proposals to potential clients. Meanwhile, DeStefano-Tangorra has helped her new clients craft personalized business proposals, customize legal documents, and design sales dashboards with guidance from ChatGPT. She won't stop using ChatGPT anytime soon.

☆ Ronzoni will discontinue its beloved star-shaped pastina
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-07 | by ( Zoe Sottile | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

Pasta brand Ronzoni has announced that the company is discontinuing its pastina product, a tiny star-shaped pasta. “We hear you and greatly appreciate your love for Ronzoni Pastina,” wrote the company in the post. “After extensive efforts, we regretfully announce that Ronzoni pastina is being discontinued. One 12-ounce box of Ronzoni pastina retails for $1.69 on Stop and Shop’s website. “I just wanna talk.”Others shared nostalgic stories about eating pastina as a child, or recalled pastina soups lovingly cooked by grandparents.

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