If you haven't added generative AI to your skill set yet, you should. AI chatbots such as ChatGPT and Gemini and AI image generators including Dall-E and Canva are handy, accessible and often free to use. They're also powerful gateways for getting things done, whether it's for work, a hobby or general knowledge. Now's the time to start getting familiar with them.

And many of us have, to some degree. The ChatGPT app is reliably among the top downloads from Apple's and Google's app stores, and ChatGPT maker OpenAI puts its user numbers in the hundreds of millions . Rivals Google, Meta and Microsoft are making it harder to avoid their own AI tools.

Meanwhile, AI is reshaping the workplace along with the rest of the world, and you need to be prepared. In an IBM survey of 2,000 CE

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