I recently taught a workshop on moving past basic prompting, and thought I'd share the content here. Let's face it, we're all supposed to be using these tools, and getting better, faster, stronger, etc., but how many people have actually been taught about prompting? LLMs are powerful but lazy, literal, and very keen to please …
Infographics in NotebookLM NotebookLM has added Nano Banana to its construction toolkit and in addition to much better slides and videos (narrated slides), it now does seriously good infographics. I uploaded an article on the Taxonomy of Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen-AI) Use in Marketing (you can get the pre-print pdf here). Below is the taxonomy …
I bounced into AI agent-land a little while ago with this image creator on Glif, but wanted to dig in a bit more and see how many ways I could pull together an automatic news update email. Preferably for free. News Agent 1 - ChatGPT (paid account $20 per month) So this is the most …
Returning to the experiments of Google Labs this week, I decided to use Whisk to create a few Christmas card options. The results are...variable... Whisk works by combining up to three images - one subject, one scene, and one style into a new, blended, concoction. You can choose to upload an image (you need to …
The company I work for closes down over Christmas/New Year and since I'm not going anywhere this year, I decided an at-home writing retreat might be fun You can find residential writing retreats in all sorts of amazing places, at any time of the year, covering time as short as a weekend, up to a …
I covered generative AI for music a while ago - looking at Suno, Udio, and Google Labs' MusicFX. As a quick memory refresher, MusicFX is the one that gave me two songs about a robot learning about AI, both in Japanese (there are links in the original post). Google Labs has another music tool, called …
Every few months, Ethan Mollick puts out a blog post on using AI - covering what's changed, what's useful, and what's confusing. If you haven't come across him, he's professor at Wharton, has a great blog called One Useful Thing, and wrote a book about living and working with AI, called Co-Intelligence. The latest of …
There's been a lot of chat and excitement about Gemini's new image generator - Nano Banana (where do they get these names from?). It's even available in Adobe Photoshop now. While it's a good image generator, its real strength is in editing. You can edit via text prompt and unlike previous models from various platforms, …
There are a lot of people getting a little antsy about other people (usually 'kids these days') using LLM and related tools to help them stop thinking. Frankly that doesn't sound like a great idea, and I don't think the issue is confined to 'the kids'. It's funny, since one of my favourite uses for …
Following on from the last post on Gemini Storybook, I took a look at RunwayML's Game World application. Think of it as a Choose Your Own Adventure Story, but with pictures. You need to be a RunwayML paid subscriber to be able to use the app, which is currently in beta. Note: if you're in …
AI for Squishy Humans 