Today, I saw a meme.
“What’s a meme?”
This is a meme:
“Ok. What does it mean?”
Well, meme is a shortened version of the word ‘mimetic’
‘mimetic’ means ‘acting like a mime’.
Mimes are known for copying the behavior of things in their environment.
“No. What does the introvert meme mean?”
Well, to me, the meme illustrates that a single individual is 3x more capable than ever before, thanks to Ai.
‘But, how does Ai make one person 3x more capable?’
Again, for me, Ai is a tool I use when I want to process a lot of information, relatively quickly.
As an example, I recently attended a 90-minute presentation.
I audio recorded the presentation, and generated an Ai text transcription from the audio.
The total length of the 90-minute transcript was 17,344 words.
For comparison, that means our text transcript is longer than The Declaration of Independence, The US Constitution, and Shakespeare’s play, ‘Macbeth’.
I fed that relatively-large amount of transcription text to an Ai tool called Claude Sonnet 3.5 and I asked the Ai to summarize the 90-minute meeting for me.
The resulting summary from the Ai was full of insights & specific information from that presentation, to which I now have instant access, via that Ai summary.
‘So, how does that help you?
By utilizing an Ai to handle the labor-intensive tasks of transcribing & analyzing, I’m able to spend my time doing other more-relevant things.
Technically, the task of ‘transcribing’ and ‘analyzing’ and ‘typing’ are all quite time consuming for humans to do, but Ai can do them very fast.
Previously, before 2020-ish (roughly the onset of these Ai tools), I would never have considered transcribing a 90-minute meeting.
And, even if I had, I certainly wouldn’t have ever wanted to re-read the whole transcript myself, in order to create a summary of ‘what I learned’.
But the game changes completely when we bring in Ai.
“Cool. Ai sounds useful for you.”
It is, and here’s an example using my own personal website, CarletonTorpin.com.
In the six-year period between 2017 until mid 2023, I wrote 33 articles, and none of them utilized Ai in any way.
During mid-2023, I noticed that Ai was getting good enough to help me with just about anything.
Thus, across an 18-month period, from mid-2023 until January 2025, I produced 55 articles, and every article utilized multiple kinds of Ais.
Even though this data is anecdotal, and based entirely on one website’s output, the data does align with the meme; someone with Ai is 3x more capable.
Before Ai tools, I wrote 1 article every 2 months.
With Ai tools, I write 6 articles every 2 months.
I can do more than ever before, because I utilize Ai.
Here’s a few other articles about Ai which might be interesting;