Summary In today's episode, I investigate the limitations and inherent biases of creating digital twins through generative AI. Here's what this means for you. You will understand why public data alone cannot accurately replicate a person's complex thinking and identity. You'll also learn these concepts: how missing private information creates statistical bias, why survivorship bias…
Summary In today's episode, I examine how corporate politics and the "failing up" phenomenon can corrupt your AI training data. Here's what this means for you. You can prevent your AI systems from learning to mimic the deceptive and incompetent patterns of poor performers. You'll also learn these concepts: how the Peter principle destabilizes organizations,…
Beware the parable of the wolf. Andy’s advice and Nicole’s advice about using images in prompts is solid and good… … with one addition. Before you have AI do anything with an image, ask AI to summarize the image first. Why? You MUST validate what an AI model “sees” in an image. AI models don’t…
AI is not a substitute for expertise. I recently posted about how I dropped out of the stock market for a while and recommended that other people talk to their qualified financial advisors and experts because I am not one. Can generative AI evaluate the data you give it? Absolutely. Can it draw impressive conclusions,…
Out of all the announcements at Google I/O yesterday, which do we care about as marketers? AI mode is basically LLM-based “search”. You have a full, regular chat – which means regular search results are gone. For now, it’s a tab in Google search results. The Google team said they’ll migrate features to the core…
Let’s talk a bit more about AI data privacy for a minute. Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer. I cannot give legal advice. Seek a qualified lawyer in your jurisdiction for legal advice specific to your situation. Someone asked me recently when I was advocating for local AI models if I was concerned about a…
“What’s your hobby, Mr. Bond?” “Resurrection.” Me too, Mr. Bond. And generative AI enables that. Here’s an example. Once upon a time, there was an amazing Google Chrome tab extension that let you set up different time zones in new tabs, like a world clock. It was pretty, it was effective, it was… bloated. The…
42 pages. That’s how many pages of settings you need to go through to set up a simple small business website according to best practices – WITHOUT a CRM or marketing automation system. I was setting up a website for a friend of mine tonight, and these are the number of settings you have to…
