Category: Future

  • Mind Readings: Two X Factors In The Future of Work

    Summary In today's episode, I break down two massive X factors reshaping the future of work that no one can forecast fully. Here's what this means for you. You gain a practical framework for using generative AI to simulate scenarios so your business adapts before disruption hits. You'll also learn these concepts: how climate change…

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  • You Ask, I Answer: AI’s Impact on Higher Education?

    Summary In today's episode, I explore whether AI is the final nail in the coffin for America's outdated, overpriced higher education system. Here's what this means for you. You face an existential career shift because AI now performs the entry-level tasks universities once trained you to do, which forces you to become a conductor of…

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  • You Ask, I Answer: What is the Value of Exams in the Age of AI?

    Summary In today's episode, I explore why the modern education system feels broken in the age of generative AI and what it would take to redesign it. Here's what this means for you. You'll see how a school model built for an old factory economy actively misprepares students for a world where machines now handle…

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  • You Ask, I Answer: More Work for Humans in the Age of AI?

    Summary In today's episode, I address whether AI will consume jobs and explore the speed at which this transformation unfolds. Here's what this means for you. You will understand why the timing of AI disruption matters far more than the disruption itself, since past industrial shifts happened over generations and now you face changes in…

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  • Mind Readings: How AI Will Consume Jobs

    Summary In today's episode, I break down the two main camps of thought about how AI will reshape the future of work, from the Brookings Institute perspective that AI takes tasks instead of jobs to Sam Altman's bolder predictions about massive job displacement. Here's what this means for you. You get a clear-eyed view of…

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  • Mind Readings: AI Model Scale, Scope, and Capability

    Summary In today's episode, I break down a February 2024 academic paper on efficient transformers and explain why context window size determines an AI model's problem-solving power. Here's what this means for you. You'll see how the upcoming jump to million-token context windows will let AI tackle complex tasks like legal case analysis by the…

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  • Mind Readings: Climate Change is Structural Inflation

    Summary In today's episode, I break down structural inflation driven by climate change and explain how it ripples through every sector of the economy. Here's what this means for you. You gain a clearer framework for spotting hidden cost pressures before they hit your wallet or your business. You'll also learn these concepts: why systemic…

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  • Almost Timely News, December 31, 2023: Three Words and Four Enemies of 2024

    Almost Timely News: Three Words and Four Enemies of 2024 (2023-12-31) :: View in Browser ๐Ÿ‘‰ Register for my new Generative AI for Marketers course! Use ALMOSTTIMELY for $50 off the tuition Content Authenticity Statement 100% of this week’s newsletter was generated by me, the human. When I use AI, I will disclose it prominently.…

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  • Almost Timely News, September 3, 2023: The Future of Work in the Age of AI

    Almost Timely News: The Future of Work in the Age of AI (2023-09-03) :: View in Browser ๐Ÿ‘‰ ๐Ÿ“• Get my new book, The Woefully Incomplete Book of Generative AI, absolutely free of financial cost ๐Ÿ“• ๐Ÿ‘‰ Watch the newest version of my talk, the Marketing Singularity, recorded live at MAICON 2023! ๐Ÿ“บ Content Authenticity…

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  • Mind Readings: The Entertainment Industry’s AI Reckoning is Coming

    Summary In today's episode, I break down how AI is reshaping the entertainment industry amid the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes, focusing on the tension between studio cost-cutting proposals and the rise of generative creator tools. Here's what this means for you. The power to produce and distribute original stories is shifting away from major…

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