Google's Gemini LLM has a new Gem, called Storybook. Before diving into that, Gems are custom versions of Gemini, designed to be particularly suited to one, small, given task or area. There's a career guide, a coding partner, a learning coach, and two experimental models; one for chess, and the other for stories. Jumping into …
The Stanford d-School is generally credited (along with IDEO) for creating Design Thinking as a discipline. This is where you think user-first, come up with ideas, try stuff, get feedback, learn as you go and iterate your way to a new solution. This is one of the best diagrams to illustrate design thinking, and is …
With everyone going on about agentic AI and automation, I thought it might be good to take a look at a tool that creates these linked-together actions that isn't super-technical and complex. Glif is basically agentic AI for beginners and I really like it. You get 10 free credits per day, but they don't roll …
Taking a slight detour this week to dive into the recent MIT article with the very catchy name Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task. Given this is a 200+ page academic article, I've enlisted some AI help, to find some quicker ways to absorb …
I don't know about anyone else, but I'm hopeless at actually digging into new tools and things if I don't have a purpose for them. So, in the interests of sparking some ideas on what you could use these tools for, here's something I find the LLMs hugely helpful for: planning projects. My preferred tool …
This is one of the best uses of AI I've come across. To quote the creator, it's "a collection of small, simple, single-task tools, mostly designed to help neurodivergent people with tasks they find overwhelming or difficult." It's free, it's simple, and it does what it says on the tin - for anyone who could …
This is one of those random Google side projects that just takes off (best known one is Gmail), possibly because it's the best thing since sliced bread for academic researchers and other people who need to chomp through a large amount of very specific information. The way Notebook LM works is that it uses an …
Quick caveat before diving in. This area of tech is moving insanely fast and while I'm aiming to stick to the foundations here, if you're reading this post more than a month after it was published, check the details, things could be out of date. So, first up. LLM stands for Large Language Model, and …
AI for Squishy Humans 