 I apologize for the, they're not very graphically good slides, but hopefully they have good and meaningful content that everyone finds useful. Is English okay? Yes, awesome. So as you said, I have 20 years of experience in business operations and customer success. I've worked for companies like American Express, for Samsung, for Philip Morris International, and I spearheaded the launch of Uber in Lahore and in Karachi as well. For the past six years, I've been working at Automatic. Who here is familiar with Automatic? Who knows a little bit about it? So what we do primarily is we provide services for hosted WordPress websites, among other things as well. So we have Jetpack, we have Commerc, so there's a whole range of products that Automatic currently offers. So I've been working as a happiness engineer there. And interestingly, the trend with AI is that if you don't adapt, that you're going to be left behind. So I'm also part of the company's inaugural AI squad, and what we're looking to do is to leverage AI and really enhance the effectiveness of our product so we can get better services delivered for our customers. So just a quick introduction, and if we have the mic. So just a quick show of hands. How many of you have used AI in the past week? Put your hands up high. Let's see. OK, there is very good percentage of people. Awesome, awesome. If so, what are you using it for? Let's just pick five people at random. What are you using AI for? So who wants to share what they're using AI for with the rest of the group? We have one here, one here, one here. So please. Actually, one of my proposals is helping more. OK, awesome. Thank you. I'm using AI for to understand the group, and I have also developed some Chrome extensions that have objectivity and AI. OK, you've developed a Chrome extension. I have zero knowledge of coding, especially in Chrome extension, and I have published two Chrome extensions, which I totally remember that have objectivity, and I'm publishing the next one. Very good. Let me explain what actually does that. I'm using that extension to actually fetch images from unsplash.com. I have named the extension images everywhere. When someone is using the extension, we have just to click the icon, and there is a search box for that. So if you need any sort of image, just type in it, and here is a list of images. You can download it and send it to you. Thank you. Very good. OK, let's get two more. The first is using AI. What are you using it for? Let's go to that side. So one person is using it for coding. Another person is using it to build content and proposals. I have used open AI to create emails for clients. Emails for clients. OK. There is a portal on the worker's website. There are a number, and what they have to do, they have to generate. They have to give the scientists, and then they have to give it to them. OK, awesome. So you are using it basically to write copy. Yeah. OK, awesome. Let's have two more. Who else wants to share what they are using AI for? I have a solution. OK, as a coding assistant. Perfect. Proposals can be created in the unit, especially as a coding assistant. Awesome. Most of the time. Awesome, great. I have a question. We have one more. I think he wants to share as well. Thank you, sir. I had the opportunity to teach prompt engineering to MS master's class. And I would like to say two examples. I have designed a collection of prompts in which a student can write the question that is in kind of a faculty question. And this program, this is her program. And Chair GPT will identify step by step what mistake he did in the program. And will also write the program for the question that was even by the instructor. So the problem that I want to solve is in the class, if I do not have time to guide each and every student, he can himself or herself get the knowledge where he committed the mistake and learn by himself. OK, in image generation, I am using control lines where they can control image generation. So these are the two scenarios. Awesome. Thank you so much. I was really impressed with how well aware everyone already is with AI. So now I have a question for someone who is not using AI. Is there anyone in the room who is not using AI right now? And if you are not, why are you not using it? Do you want to share or you are not using it? Anyone else who is not using it? OK, good. So then where do you fall in? I asked if you are using it. We have about 70% raised their hands. Now we have one person say they are not using it. So what about the rest? Are you using AI or are you not using AI? And if you are not using it, OK. Well, the next slide then is for you. So how many of you are familiar with Oxford University? Everyone knows Oxford is great. So they have an institute called the Future of Humanity. In 2016, they got machine learning experts from all around the world together. They surveyed 352 machine learning experts. And based on the survey that they did and all of the investigative reporting that they did, when they studied what was already available in the market, what they assume, again, this is in 2016, what they assume is that by 2026, AI will be capable of writing school essays. By 2027, self-driving trucks will render drivers unnecessary. By 2031, AI is going to outperform humans in the retail sector. 2049, AI is going to be the next Stephen King. So who knows Stephen King if you've read any of his books? And 2053, the next Charlie Teal. The reason I mentioned Charlie Teal, you may not be aware of him yet. He's a world-renowned neurosurgeon. So the best and most prominent machine learning experts in the entire world, they got together and they predicted that by 2053, again, 30 years from now, not that far away, that we'll be able to perform neurosurgery with AI. Just imagine where AI is going already. By 2137, this is 114 years away. It seems like a long time, but if you think about it, just in the generation of you, your kids, and then their kids, you're probably already there at 114 years. By 2137, AI will be able to automate all of human jobs. The purpose of this isn't to scare you. The purpose of this isn't to say that the world is over or if you watch Terminator 2, that Skynet is coming. The purpose of this is for you to understand that you need to develop AI as a skill and in every field it has an application. It has an application in WordPress. And what you need to do today is start adopting that skill in your day-to-day. Someone is using it already. I'm sure, you know, this says by 2026 and they predicted this 10 years ago. But 2023, I'm sure you could write majority of your school and essays today using chat GPT. If any of you are students, have you used AI for your assignments? It's okay, your teachers won't mind. I'm sure they use AI to grade your assignments as well. So in terms of what AI is capable of doing today, they're three years behind on what they predicted in 2016. Just imagine how fast AI is developing. And that's what really the crux of my presentation is today, that I'm not a developer by profession. I don't know any PHP code. I don't know JavaScript. I do know HTML and CSS. But I was never able to create a plugin myself. I'm not a developer. So what I think was, I started with a problem. Whenever you generally work on developing something, you start with one problem and then you figure out, how do I fix that? So everyone, I'm sure, must use some form of task management in their life. You have some application that you use, whether it's iPhones, Reminders app, whether it's Google Tasks, whether it's Asana, whatever you use. So what I use is a WordPress website. What I did was I created a custom post type for myself called it tasks. And then I started entering tasks. And these are just some test tasks that I've entered for today. I threw them into four columns. I put them into query loop blocks, which are part of the new full site editing in Gutenberg experience. And I created what essentially is known in the development industry as a Kanban board. So you start off with your statuses. These are my to-do tasks, my in-progress, my on-hold and my completed tasks. One of the biggest challenges that I had, you'll see the due date field is empty. Because this was something I was developing from scratch, the query loop block doesn't have a date field that I can enter, and then the date field doesn't turn red when the date is passed. Because it's not a proper task management system. I'm adapting it for something that wasn't actually built for it. So I created the query loop block. I wrote about four, five hundred lines of CSS to style this the way that I wanted. But now I needed to get the due date. So here's the solution that I proposed to myself. Again, this is all without speaking to a developer. This is what I assumed I needed. I wanted to be able to add a custom due date field. And I wanted to turn the text red if the due date has passed. So if the due date was yesterday, the task isn't complete, I want the due date to turn red so I know immediately this task has passed due. Then I want to show the custom due date in a query loop block. This is more of a technical point. Whenever you add a custom field in WordPress, it doesn't automatically show up in other blocks. You actually have to write some code to make it available to the default blocks that are there in WordPress. And then the third thing, let's say you're lazy one day. You don't get up, you don't log in and check your website. You don't go in and actually see what tasks are due. So I wanted an email reminder to be sent to me that all of these tasks are passed due and you want to be able to remind yourself, click on a link and open it up. So this was the solution that when I sat down, I figured, okay, this is what I need to make my Kanban board effective for me. So what I did was I started writing prompts. So who's familiar with what prompts are? If you're using AI, you should be familiar with what a prompt is. Was there, do you want to share a little bit about prompts with us? Absolutely, awesome. It's an instruction, as was said, that you're giving to the language model, which is AI, and what output you expect from it. What's amazing, and I really appreciate the presentation we just had, if you look in the Western world, if you look in America today, universities are already actually starting to create courses for prompt engineering. So we've had software engineering, we've had different types of classes. Now in America, you'll actually see for AI, they're creating classes called prompt engineering. So what you input into the AI model is essentially going to dictate what you get out of it. So what I told AI was to use the ACF plug-in. It's the advanced custom field plug-in. I added a field called do-date, and I assigned it the tasks post-type that I had already created. So I'm telling this to the AI model that I'm now putting in the prompt for it. I told AI that I want to display this ACF shortcode, but I want the text to turn red when the date has passed. So there's a date check that it needs to perform. I want to be able to style the field with custom CSS. So what that essentially means is I'm asking AI, I want you to assign specific classes to those values that you add. So then I can style it later. I can choose whatever style options I want. Again, I'm not a developer. There's no way I could have done this myself. So here's what AI gave me. And again, this is, you perhaps can't see the code, you can't see the slide, but it shot out about 26 lines of code in maybe roughly 5, 10 seconds. So what I did was I inputted what I wanted. It's checking the do-date here at the top. Then it's assigning the do-date a particular format. And now it's assigning classes based on what I told it, that I wanted to have a specific class if the date has passed, and I wanted to have a specific class in general so I could style the difference. The next thing in my prompt was, again, this is a technical point that when you create a custom field in ACF, you have to tell AI or you have to tell the code to show this field in other blocks because that native support isn't there yet. So I said to AI, now I want to enable, again, I'm just in a trend from that first prompt, I got the code, now I'm entering another prompt. I want to enable the use of ACF within the native query block in Gutenberg. So it gave me just, again, a few lines of code here. I did quite three or four lines of code. And essentially all I did is it made that field that I added available. So this is the result now. Again, with no development experience whatsoever, I was able to create custom code out of plug-in, to do dates for each one of these tasks. And you'll see that the three dates that have passed are red. This is something that, again, from a task management standpoint was really important to me that when I look at my Canman board, I want to see dates, I want to see red dates to know that these tasks are pass-due. So not being a developer, I was able to create this plug-in, implement this functionality today for my daily task management. The third thing is, so everyone sees the dates here, this is coming from custom code that I added using AI. Nothing, I didn't reach out to a developer, I didn't copy anything online. Simply went to the chat GPT model, this is the free model. The chat GPT4, if you're paying for it, it offers even better functionality, even better responsiveness. This is something that I did today with a free model. A developer today. Just think about the possibility of you as a copywriter today what you can get as output for your WordPress website. You can write blog posts, you can write plug-ins, you can write CSS. There was one member here who mentioned that they're using it to review their code already. That's fantastic. Because AI understands the semantics better than a lot of times which is quickly for you, which is the real advantage. Again, this whole process of creating a plug-in, which just six months ago, maybe a year ago, I wouldn't have been able to do, took me about 30 minutes. I was able to develop a plug-in in 30 minutes, and that's something I hadn't been able to do for five years. So this is the power of AI for someone like me who doesn't have that skill set that you have already. Further you can take your skill set, how much further you can enhance your functionality. Now we have one more functionality left here. The last part is, again, a reminder that I wanted that email. I wanted an email to be sent to me whenever the tasks had passed through. Whenever the tasks were read, I want a list email to be sent out to me. So this is the prompt I went. It's a little bit longer, again, in that same chain conversation about open API, I'm saying that I want you to trigger an email with a list of posts where the date has passed. I'm telling you that the title should link to the actual post on the website. I'm telling you I want you to number the post so that there's some basic formatting there. The custom taxonomies that I've added, the categories, the statuses, the priorities, they should be there as well. I want you to maintain a hierarchical structure. So if there's a parent and child category, I want you to maintain that structure in the email as well and schedule the email to be sent to me at 9am every single day. So this is, again, the prompt I'm putting into a chat dbt. So it shoots out this code. So this is a little bit longer in terms of the code. It's actually meant every single day at 9am or 9.05am the way that our phone jobs on WordPress.com work, sometimes trigger at different times based on who actually visits websites. It shot out this email today. And again, by no stretch of the imagination am I saying that this is a well formatted email or it looks really nice. You can do all of that with CSS and HTML later yourself. You can always style it the way you want. But the functionality is there. Every single day now I get an email that tells me what tasks are do, I'm able to click on them, open it up on my website, and then engage with that task however I need to. And again, I was able to do this in a matter of maybe half an hour. Just imagine if you now today focus your efforts on creating business processes. So if you're someone who is in operations, you're a business manager, you don't have the technical expertise, that's perfectly okay. You're able to now actually start developing. Think of that business process yourself. No one knows the business process better than you for your business or for your website or for your specific requirement. So you're able to tell chat GPT or whatever language model you're using exactly what code you want. And one of the greatest things that I've seen about the GPT model is that when the code generated, isn't what you want. You don't even have to feedback. You tell it, know this code that you sent me, it didn't make the text red or it made it too big. I want you to make it smaller. I want you to format the email a different way. You know, that conversation in a software house can sometimes be very complicated because you're going back and forth between developers, between QA, but now with chat GPT you tell it exactly, you know, I don't like this. I want you to change the output, and in a couple of seconds you get a new set of code. That's it. I just wanted to show you real real quickly, in half an hour how I was able to develop a plugin and do it without any development experience. So just really imagine the power of AI today. AI is a reality that's coming and we can't put our head in the sand, we can't avoid it. It's going to shape the future of all of the industries that we're currently working in. So this is the time for us to really grasp that skill, understand that skill, and figure out how we can leverage that skill to make ourselves more effective, more efficient, and produce better results and deliver value. Any questions about AI, about WordPress? Awesome. Keep in touch. It was a pleasure being able to speak with you that if nothing today you go home and you open up a PI, or chat DPP, open a PI and you start asking it what it can do for you. I think all of you will be pleasantly surprised. Thank you so much. Yes. Okay. With AI, we need to start using our own tools. We need to use our own tools or we need to start using AI or we need to start using AI. So what he's asking is you know, is the only way to learn AI start using it. And my answer to that initially right now would be yes. The reason is because AI is very new and it's rapidly changing. If anyone watched Open API their day just like a month ago, they completely changed the game with the new box that they introduced. And their new box and their amazing functionality so if someone tells you they're an AI expert today I wouldn't believe them. Because Open API has made the advancements in AI so quickly it's hard to become an expert in three months. So the best way to learn what you can do with AI is to just play around with it. Ask it to write you a book. Ask it to write you a blog post about the latest political situation in Pakistan. I'm sure you'll get a very fun answer. So ask AI to just start doing tasks for you but you'll really see the power of what it's able to do. So I would say the best way to learn it today absolutely start using it. It doesn't have to be for anything specific. This task that I've created, this is not for anyone, this is something I use personally myself. But it made my life easier now because I can identify those tasks that are right. I think we have another question. Yes? My question is right now we're talking about an AI so you have a number that you don't use in your task management. So I don't use an AI in your task management so if we want to use it commercially for our clients I have two suggestions that we can use AI to establish a work-press for our clients based on AI. Absolutely wonderful question. So I know what a lot of companies are doing work-press hosting companies are doing whether it's GoDaddy whether it's automatic we're all looking at ways to leverage AI to provide support to customers so let's say you build a product today for example you have a plugin and you want to provide level 1 support for your plugin but you don't want to hire 5 people. So you can leverage OpenAPI's assistance bot which they just launched a month ago and you can leverage that technology to provide support to your paying customers and what you'll find is that when you train the bot you have questions to ask you tell it what questions to expect it provides you with amazing answers and you have to train it though so in terms of how you can use it in a commercial setting that's the same way you would use it in a commercial setting provide support to your customers and your software developers can use it as an assistant to improve their code they can use it to write code more quickly I know QA departments across the software landscape what another one of our attendees mentioned they're using AI to already review code so instead of having a QA team what people are already doing is they're using AI to start reviewing codes where are the lapses are the semantics wrong is there a critical error that's going to be thrown with this code so there's so many possibilities and something I know we don't have time now but we can certainly talk once we're great and we can talk about that in more detail another question I think the last one could be just the easiest to chime I think okay, okay two more questions is that okay? sir, from there we're working at we're working at like I say that I am I'm from from UCP awesome yes sir, I'm working on user-generated AI so I have great and learned that yet no AI modernized and here I can see that there are a lot of people also there are a lot of professionals so you have discussed in a very good way about the use of AI in WordPress yes, it is new but as you know that AI don't have 100% accuracy even I would say there are a lot of models they don't have even 60% accuracy so if you recommend the new AI in WordPress like that then if they range their concepts of coding am I right? I think it's a good question as you have discussed about the amount these are AI the new concept of AI otherwise if they range the concepts of their coding they can't enhance their coding skills by using AI I think it's a great question and one more thing actually for this time we should not neglect AI we should work on it I would say we should use AI AI it may help us to make a safety check but at the same time there is a point that a lot of people will do the same like me very good I would say I can do this in one day but very skillful wonderful question and I think and I appreciate that you have the courage to ask this question because it's a difficult question and it's a question that's everywhere in the software industry right now that you have developers who are concerned that AI is going to take my job AI is going to take my skill I'm going to tomorrow not be able to use my brains and I'm just going to simply go to openAPI chat, dpq or any language model and say do my work for me I think there's two ways you look at this the first thing is in order for me to even build this plugin I needed to have a very basic understanding of what WordPress is I needed to know that I needed classes I needed to know what functionality I wanted so there's a certain amount of understanding you still have to develop in my mind I think you're right today as AI is currently available it's not 100% accurate I absolutely agree with you but right now openAPI just made AI available to all of us within the last 12 months really it's very very new and what I'm encouraging everyone to think about what I'm encouraging everyone to think about is that AI is going to develop as fast as we develop if you know anything about what happened with the openAPI CEO because he was moving so fast in development the board removed him but then Microsoft said we'll hire you and then his entire development team at openAPI said we're going to resign if you don't bring him back so openAPI right now they're valued at 90 billion dollars openAPI again 12 months ago people even knew what chatGPZ was so in 12 months they've gotten the valuation their CEO came back their entire team knows that we're going to shape the direction so what this talk really is about is what is the possibility of what AI is going to become I absolutely agree with you right now as it stands today AI cannot replace anyone in this room but and I think this is the really important thing that you and everyone else has to understand if I close my eyes and say AI is not going to replace me I promise you it's going to be a matter of 6 months 6 years it might be 10 years it might be 15 years but eventually AI will be able to do everything I can do better and faster than me so what I have to do is I have to figure out today how can I use AI to do my job even better so if there's another developer who has your same skill set he's able to build a plugin in one hour for example but you're able to leverage your same skill set and use AI to create a comparable plugin in 30 minutes eventually again I'm not saying this is happening tomorrow but 15 years later which developer would you hire they both have the same skill set but one is able to leverage an API and do their work faster more effective you're able to get that product to your customer faster it's more effective you're going to deliver more value wonderful question I keep getting the watch so we can certainly talk about this afterwards it's a wonderful question and I think it's a question we all need to think about open API AI, this is all a reality we're going to have to adjust to that reality in every industry it's in support, it's in retail it's in software development we have to adjust to it one more, do we have time for one more? yes we don't have time but okay sorry Hello, my name is Shidoz Khan and I am working as an HR manager at Negative Tech.org and I have a similar experience like you one day I asked why didn't you hire a salaried salesman I researched and of course told you so he gave me some suggestions to increase salary he had a suggestion he should also suggest to the HR so he helped me he also suggested to the HR so he gave me a solution and for that I had a promotion and for the second thing I had a BBA course visual basic programming because I was not able to get a visual I was a non-technical person and he generated me and also I had to insert as he was going to be a module he would have created me so I have a question what do you think how much salary do you have do you have a tax amount or do you have enough money or do you have enough money so how much salary do you have do you have enough money do you have enough money do you have enough money it's a really hard question for me to answer I don't know when AI was able to replace what work we were doing right but the point of really what I was talking about even if you look at that future future of the university institute study what they're mentioning is that AI is coming it might take us five years to get there it might take us 50 years to get there but it's coming it's a reality so I don't know when we're going to be able to replace the Monday task of filling out Excel sheets hopefully one day it takes everyone's salary and just multiplies it by two we can all hope for that day that one day AI just helps us get more earn more but I think what you can do is write what I know of myself is that Excel even today Google Sheets even today they have AI plugins that you can add to Sheets or help me write it down so those plugins help you use AI to start creating Sheets even today so that's already a possibility right now how you further automate that is something that we could I'm sorry there everyone keeps holding their watch in front of me so I think it's time for me to leave but I think that's already happening today maybe we can discuss it a little bit after the session thank you so much it was a pleasure