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Making Everything Easier with AI

If you are among the thousands dipping their toes into using AI tools to help you understand your business, you may be wondering where it can be most effective. Here are some ideas for where to start using your AI skills to learn more about your business!

Tuesday, December 17, 2024

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If you have tried any of the growing options for GPT tools, you may be wondering how to make them work for you. After all, staying competitive requires more than the traditional set of skills, no matter where you sit in the print and communication supply chains. The promise of Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT) technology is the opportunity to participate in digital transformation along a variety of trajectories. GPT technology can help you to analyze business data, streamline operations, and enhance profitability. It is for more than creating interesting images or improving communication. It can help define a faster way to use the data in your shop that is never analyzed. It can help you find the nuggets that expose bottlenecks and gaps.

GPT technology is one of many subsets of AI designed to understand and generate human-like text responses based on the input it receives. It can be an excellent tool for analyzing large volumes of data, generating insights, and automating tasks that traditionally require special skills and a lot of patience. Adding one or more GPT tools to the business can unlock new levels of efficiency and innovation.


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About Pat McGrew

Pat is a well-known evangelist for inkjet productivity. At McGrew Group, she uses her decades technical and marketing experience to lead the industry toward optimized business processes and production workflows. She has helped companies to define their five-year plans, audited workflow processes, and developed sales team interventions and education programs. Pat is the Co-Author of 8 industry books, editor of A Guide to the Electronic Document Body of Knowledge, and a regular contributor to Inkjet Insight and WhatTheyThink.com.

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