AI for Squishy Humans has been going for nearly a year and a half. It's gone quickly, and a lot has changed in that time, both in AI, and in my life. When I started AISH, I was between freelancing gigs. I scored a great, one-year contract shortly afterwards, that had me working four days …
This is one of my favourite ways to use generative AI. I tend to have a lot of projects going at any one time and it's very easy for things to get messy, foggy, jumbled up, and generally out of control. As a recovering (or not) control freak, using AI tools to turn brain dumps …
AI tools are showing up a lot in IT, it's probably about the only department that's using this technology more than the marketing peeps. In fact McKinsey flagged IT as having the highest generative‑AI maturity among corporate functions surveyed (about 36% with deployed use cases). Although I note Marketing wasn't one of the functions they …
Note: Trying to get this week's header image to be fun and positive, but not ick? Not easy, and not sure I managed it TBH. At least there weren't love hearts in this version. Pretty much all the coverage we see around AI in HR is on things like job applicant trackers, and CVs being …
AI tools have been powerhouses for data analytics, reporting, and trend analysis since well before ChatGPT bounced onto the scene. Generative AI is just making it way easier for the average person to make meaning out of massive chunks of numbers. AI is, by nature/programming, brilliant at pattern recognition, especially in large datasets. This means …
I don't know about you, but the idea of having customer service chatbots that are actually helpful sounds amazing! It's a little easier said than done, as Air Canada could tell you after its bot gave out wrong information about tickets that they then had to pay for. A customer assistant chatbot that makes stuff …
Most reports and surveys of generative AI adoption in business puts the marketing function either at, or very near, the top of the adoption curve. Since the LLMs deal with words and communication, same as marketing, this makes sense, especially when you look at the relentless demand for constant, current content across an insane number …
I thought it might be helpful to look at the main areas AI (especially the generative version) are getting involved in the workplace. The first area is general admin, there you're looking at them: Creating emails - especially ones that are fairly standard templated sorts of comms, remember to review the final copy and add …
Vibe coding is where you come up with apps, whether they're web, or mobile, just using normal English language commands. Frankly, I think it works best when you already have a coding background (turbo-charging your expertise), but if you need to brief something to a more tech-type person, vibe coding can get you to a …
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 …
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