Introduction

Hello, everyone.

I'm autistic and ADHD, so I look strange because I am. But I kind of enjoy it.

So I really love this session because I only have two slides. So this is best ever.

I don't really like slides.

Presentation Context

So it's project becoming.

Session Overview

Cheating with AI. I don't know much about AI.

It works for now. Latest thing on the block.

That's who I am. Nikita.

Life is short. Make it matter.

So now that's all good. But now let's go to the thing which did all the work for me this morning.

So...

Professional Journey

A year from now, in May 2024, I'm working at MasterCard, amazing company, and we have an opportunity to work on internal projects.

Early Challenges and Vision

And there was this 250 internal community whom I joined as a volunteer, and then I was tasked with content strategy. And I thought for a few days, and then I came and told that, look, there's so much hype around AI. I spend days and days hearing all this AI wave stuff, and it doesn't impact my life.

In fact, it actually distracts me. So what if instead of... 1Instead of repeating this AI hype and stuff, what if instead we actually focus on the real value of it, and we connect legislation, what is allowed, with human needs, with employee needs, and then we share the success path?

because rules are there, they're long, they're needed, but it's much easier to cook when you have a cookbook than when you have a chemistry tutorial for like 10 years at university.

As a result, so we were 250 in last May, this May we have 5,100 something, or 5,300, I stopped counting. We embraced other groups. Yeah, this strategy worked.

Strategic Approach

And then, when I was looking at this success, at some point I realized that what I actually do, the only thing I do, I talk to the people, I really listen to them, and then I ask a question. Like, a year from now, you have achieved a lot, like most you can achieve, for example, at work.

So tell me, what has happened? And then let's look at this journey of you one year from now and tell me what was the most important part which created the most emotions?

And then let's cheat with AI because this is probably something which can be automated, something where we can take all this manual stuff which just let you be with emotions and creating value with AI doing this, I don't know, evaluation or whatever. And then when it actually worked and people started coming to me and I started submitting AI innovation ideas and stuff like that, mostly based on other projects which are there, but I was finding for whom they could be useful.

Personal Development

So then I thought that I do that for other people, but why don't I do it for myself?

Self-reflection and AI Usage

And then I watched some YouTube videos, and it was good but they're just youtube videos and you know there's so many videos and so many books and it's hard to follow everything at once especially when they contradict so that's when i cheated for the second time or third time maybe my life is a cheat in a way and i actually started talking to my chat gpt i discovered a voice mode there well with the paid subscription i also fed the books i worked with it

example this uh i think seven habits of highly efficient men for highly efficient people sorry start with the end in mind so i created this uh what do i want to achieve in 40 years well i want to help humanity i want to like do something which helps a lot of people okay to get there where should i be in 20 years probably entrepreneur doing startup stuff stuff that matters

How do I get there? Maybe if I become in 10 years intrapreneur, that's an employee who behaves like intrapreneur, doing the right things when the possibility arises, finding the right people, connecting the dots, making people talk, making stuff happen.

Okay, how do I get there? Oh, okay, let's start with myself, clean my room first.

So for this year, let's become this outstanding employee, it's like with a tick. So I know that this stuff works before I start using it for 10 years stuff and especially before I start sharing it with others.

Goal-setting Framework

So that's how I came with this idea of 7 Horizons and I also worked with AI and I used the ideas I got from videos to cut out the goals.

So like left and right, slowing down to go faster.

Family and Career Priorities

So now all I have left there is help community to help the community or humanity. I need to first help my family because otherwise how can I do something which doesn't work for my family to others.

For that I need health and career and for the career I use this stuff.

Interactive Demonstration

How much time I have? Because I can speak till the morning.

Okay, let's then just... I'm not sure if the sound will work, but we'll see. So there's this amazing button. And let's see if it works. I cannot guarantee it.

Hello, are you there? Can you hear me? Hey, yes, I'm here and I can hear you loud and clear. What's up?

It's very quiet. Oh, that's because this thing.

Okay. Can you take it? Can you tell it louder?

Sorry, I messed up and didn't connect the speakers. Sure thing. I can speak up. Let me know if this is better once you get your speakers connected.

Conversation with AI

So, tell me, what is my main goal for the next two weeks? But...

Well, just make it non-work-related, make it generic. So basically, which behaviors should I grow in myself and how would they help others?

For the next two weeks, focusing on non-work-related behaviors that align with your long-term vision and benefit others can be really impactful. Here are a couple of key behaviors to cultivate.

Daily reflection and mindfulness. Spend a few minutes each morning or evening in quiet reflection or mindfulness practice. This helps you stay grounded, improves emotional regulation, and makes you more present for the people around you.

As you become more mindful, Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's all great.

I remember this stuff. But also remember, I wanted to find something practical to do.

Remember, we were talking about those open source AI projects, which on one side will bring me up to the most relevant tech in open source slash AI. On another side, they're the most flexible geographically. And well, they're just cool.

Remember that table? What was the top winner project there?

Of course, the top winner project we discussed for open source AI contributions was MLflow. It stood out because it's a widely adopted platform for managing the end-to-end machine learning life cycle.

OK, good.

Future Applications

And remember that chap, actually I haven't talked to you about that, but a person on LinkedIn, as often happens, came to me, can you get me a job at the company? And although there's career website, which I mentioned, but do you think it will help people to find a job if they find this intersection between AI and what they enjoy doing and their experience?

Empowering Career Advancement

And would you be able to recommend them the next steps and help them to choose an open source projects and guide them? And would it be possible for me and you to create a small agent so others could connect and, well, benefit from this mindset, which me and you created in the last, I would say, three or four weeks?

Absolutely. Helping people find a job at the intersection of AI, their passions, and their experience is a powerful approach.

By identifying what they enjoy doing and aligning it with relevant AI projects like MLflow, people can position themselves for more... Well, thank you very much. That's good.

Conclusion

And I just wanted to remind the audience that, well, the second fun thing about me is that although I like AI and it really works, I don't like AI, but I like stuff which helps people a lot. It's just low-hanging fruit.

AI in Personal Life

So far, my biggest achievement with AI was talking to my son and creating imaginary creatures which only he can see, and typing all those words which exist or not, and getting those amazing, colorful pictures. And at four years old, he was really spending time confirming that actually these pictures are actually correct.

Integrating AI into Business Strategy

So do you think that would be a nice feature for the business and people around to talk through the problem or opportunity, find the path, and then use AI to go faster there by going slower, doing the right thing, and then making sure we can factually check doing the right thing at every step of the way? Do you think that's something we could do?

Absolutely. That sounds like a fantastic approach.

Your experience using AI creatively with your son to bring imaginary creatures to life is a beautiful example of how technology can enrich personal connections and foster creativity.

Applying that same mindset to business, using AI... Okay, that's enough.

Creative AI Experimentation

Let me just try to translate because this one is in Russian, sorry.

So that's Anfeika. She can fly very high.

She has those... Very strong fingers with nails. On her wings, she has something called pinchania. I have no idea what it is. Looks like lights.

It can swim and it can dive really, really deep.

And on the breakfast sheets, dinosaurs.

So if I can do that with AI, then like really we can do a lot. So that's it.