Liam Flowers is a marketing program manager for Xbox Experimentation who lives in Seattle with his wife and two 90-pound dogs. In his free time, he paints, creates art and cares for the growing houseplant collection he has had “ever since my wife showed me how to propagate them.”
While Flowers likes using AI tools to help him come up with concepts for his art, he has discovered this year that the tools are indispensable at work. “I’ve got wicked ADHD, and when it comes to keeping my thoughts in order, I will sometimes spit stuff out at Bing Chat to see what it says, and it’s a good vetting process for me,” Flowers says. “Also, I like to be sure I’m remembering correctly, so when Teams intelligent meeting recaps rolled out in the spring, I almost cried. They’ve become hugely important. I used to frantically scribble notes during meetings, but this tool helps me engage fully.”
Flowers, 32, shares a typical day as part of Microsoft’s “A dAI in the life” series, which showcases how AI tools are helping people do more in their personal and professional lives.
9 a.m.
Calls start at work, and there’s lots to keep track of. I use Teams intelligent recap to compose notes and provide bullet lists of action items from each call. Bing Chat — I use the Enterprise version at work — helps me with deeper critical thinking. I am not fast to reply to a lot of things because I like to be thorough, and this tool has replaced a half-dozen others by simply being able to have a discussion.
It’s also unbelievably helpful with review. I have SharePoint Copilot review Word and PowerPoint documents. It can answer questions about them and summarize the content, and it works conversationally, so little prompting knowledge is needed.
12:30 p.m.
I’m currently onboarding into a new role, and I use AI for everything in my training. For example, I’m learning a new data scorecard system for experiments, which is complex stuff. With Bing Chat’s sidebar function in Edge, I can translate grids of dense figures into a story about innovation with just a few prompts.
I’m not a data scientist, so this part of my work used to take the most of my brainpower. Now I get to focus on experience and impact. Bing Chat in the Edge browser deciphers acronyms and metric definitions into plain language, highlighting connections in the data, and can even review others’ work and compare reports I read against the data to look deeper. Here’s an example: “Make a table of all metrics on this page, their definitions, and changes between Control and Treatment.”
