The Genie in the Shop: I Get By With a Little Help from AI
Saturday
Artificial intelligence is not just for writing cringey LinkedIn posts. It is sitting on the bench next to us.
This panel looks at how working jewelers are using tools like ChatGPT and Stable Diffusion in real, everyday shop situations. Actual use cases for practical results.
We will walk through examples such as solving equipment problems without buying costly OEM parts, dialing in enameling temperatures and techniques, building graduated pricing structures based on complexity, cleaning up and generating engraving artwork, and even training AI to help train new staff.
We will also talk honestly about the limits. When does it save time. When does it waste time. How do you prompt well without falling into the black hole of endless revisions. And how can one AI tool help improve the output of another.
This is a practical conversation for shop owners and bench jewelers who are curious, skeptical, or already experimenting and want to go deeper without getting lost.
Style: Panel discussion with live examples and candid discussion of what worked and what did not.

