Yes, a real life human person wrote what you are about to read. Did Google Docs help with some spelling, grammar, punctuation and auto-suggestions?  Yes. Since the introduction of ChatGPT in late 2022, the hype and buzz surrounding artificial intelligence has been almost nonstop if you follow tech news as much as I do. 

Is AI new? No. AI has been around for years but we are just finally starting to see how it can help with some of our more mundane daily tasks.

I run a digital marketing agency based out of Las Vegas, and for our small team, the access to tools like ChatGPT have helped us become efficient in many areas of our daily work. Writing copy for search ads or writing drafts of copy for social media posts has been cut down from hours to mere minutes. Is it perfect? No, not at all. Does it get us closer to the finish line and help save hours of time? Yes it does.

I even use AI software to listen in on my meetings, take notes for me and spit out a summary of the meeting along with tasks that need to be done. Talk about helpful! 

I know some (or most) of you reading this might think the robots are coming for your job, but I don’t fully think that will happen anytime soon. I think that these new AI tools will serve more as an assistant to what you are already doing. Stuck trying to write a letter or social media post? AI it. Can’t figure out a complex issue with your profit and loss statement? AI it. Want to write a press release? AI it. There are so many cases where this technology can make lives easier and workplaces more efficient. 

And making things more efficient and easier for all of us is where I’d like to see Nevada go with this technology. We have an amazing opportunity to become an absolute leader in this space. Everything from the state to local governments to our education system could start to build this technology into everyday use.

State and local governments should create AI research committees to see how these new large language models could help everyday Nevadans. Could the department of motor vehicles deploy a powerful chat tool that answers any and all questions related to getting a license or registering your vehicle? Could the process of starting a business, applying for licenses and paying fees all be helped with AI? Could we use AI to figure out which parking garage at Harry Reid International Airport was empty on a Friday morning? Those are just a few of things we could do with this technology.

My almost 4-year-old daughter now lives in a world where she won’t know what life was like before AI and tools like ChatGPT. She’ll grow up only knowing about this technology.

So, to the federal, state and local officials that might read this post … let’s make NevadAI ready.

Suken Shah is the founder and CEO of Envision Marketing. Shah also taught digital marketing for the Lee College of Business at UNLV.