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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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here, if you're reading this post more than a month after it was published, check the details, things could be out of date.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 