Artificial Intelligence as an Enabler For Entrepreneurs and Gig Workers

The artificial Intelligence movement has become an energetic organism, ruthlessly moving in a thousand directions at warp speed. Entrepreneurship is full of many lows and few ups, mirages, and situations that seem exceptional to some people but also ordinary to many. The gig economy, most times, moves in a similar, repetitive cycle. Everyone with internet access is directly or indirectly using artificial intelligence now - headlined by the recent integration of Meta AI on WhatsApp, ChatGPT by OpenAI, Bard By Google, and Copilot by Microsoft. At a minimum, short and long questions are being answered on demand. 

When gig workers think of AI, the use cases that mostly come to their mind are automation and prompt engineering. Sometimes, though, things can get really complicated but we have seen AI streamlining coding, writing sales copies, creating videos, and illustrating comics. Soon, it may become a must-have assistant for gig workers. We are in the early this of this technology breakthrough but what if we could navigate entrepreneurship with artificial intelligence?

What does AI offer gig workers beyond prompt engineering and coding or writing assistance? Here are some takeaways:

For Entrepreneurs

• With AI, modern entrepreneurs and innovators can now extract useful insights from huge trails of data. They can turn support tickets and finance figures, external data related to social media and web traffic, and sales figures with customer transactions into powerful business decisions. The impacts will be transformative: businesses can now rely not just on past events but also on analyzing what can go wrong/right in anticipation of future opportunities. 
• For instance, a traditional database may contain customer info like their names, location, transaction history, and account info. In a more telling use case, artificial intelligence can query the database to predict how much each customer will spend over a given period, important factors that may cause them not to spend this, and likely products that will sell more. On a technical level, this is possible with pattern and relationship recognition with Graph Neural Networks (GNNs). Their predictive capacities are suited for analyzing interconnected data that aren't easily represented by traditional machine learning or statistical approaches. We will see more of these use cases over the next few years. 
• In practice, this means entrepreneurs will start recompositioning their operations team to optimally maximize future customer behavior. This advancement will lead to targeted communication, customer-first promotions, environmentally friendly manufacturing, and tailored product recommendations. It will also manifest across many industries, particularly in business forecasting, data-driven investment, budget planning, product design and development, and fraud detection. Welcome to the future.

For Gig Workers:

• Gig workers see artificial intelligence as a tool that removes redundancy and replaces repetitive human efforts using light intelligent machines. From writers to designers, programmers and data scientists to business owners, AI powers assistive tools that accelerate ideation and execution, increase productivity, and unlock commercial value for gig workers. This sheer volume of experimentation in the artificial intelligence space has attracted attention and enhanced the performance of gig workers.
• Rather than deny the disruptive power of artificial intelligence, entrepreneurs and gig workers are keen on meeting it. In the past, if you wanted to code, write, present, and distribute your work as a business owner or gig worker, it could undergo a series of trial and error. Or you can hire a professional at a very high cost. Now, you can train a model to write your code, bring your imaginary artwork to reality, and have a business plan within seconds with great perfection at little or no cost. This efficiency, effectiveness, and cost-structure shift resolves thornier problems, allows innovators to ship products faster, and elevates the gig economy to new heights.
• The emergence of artificial intelligence and its models have opened up broader use cases and new opportunities for gig workers. Large tech companies like Google, X (formerly Twitter), Meta, and Tesla have created new departments and roles for artificial intelligence. Fortune and Bloomberg reported that artificial intelligence is behind thousands of job cuts, in an attempt to free up more space for professionals with AI knowledge or experience. This has also led to new job titles like Language Model Trainers, Ethical AI Specialists, Prompt Engineers, Language Model Product Managers, AI researchers, and API Integration Experts. 
• One challenge is freelancers seek a platform that protects their rights (not just the clients), opens them to better benefits in terms of wages, and assists them in transitioning from a 'job mind' mindset to an entrepreneurial one. We have seen freelancers complaining about the traditional freelancing platforms, especially those related to payout in cryptocurrencies, early payouts, and more emphasis on freelancer satisfaction. Critically, these are some barriers to entry, skewing the benefits towards experienced and established freelancers. Things need to change.

If we want to benefit from the full potential of artificial intelligence, we need to hire experts and professionals who are skilled in its technicalities and complexities. Unfortunately, access to vetted, highly qualified AI freelancers remains a challenge across several industries. And this is no longer about the availability of these professionals - it's about their expertise and having seamless access to highly-rated AI freelancers relevant to industry-specific demands. 

This is where startups like OpenTaskAI have a competitive advantage. We have already built and aggregated large pools of experienced AI freelancers to enable business owners, entrepreneurs, companies, and governments to hire the most competent professionals in artificial intelligence. In doing so, we are creating an enabling environment for entrepreneurship and the gig economy to flourish. 

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