Category: Generative AI

  • Almost Timely News: ๐Ÿ—ž๏ธ Cultivating an AI Mindset, Part 1 (2025-11-09)

    Almost Timely News: ๐Ÿ—ž๏ธ Cultivating an AI Mindset, Part 1 (2025-11-09) :: View in Browser The Big Plug ๐Ÿ‘‰ Watch my MAICON 2025 session, From Text to Video in Seconds, a session on AI video generation! Content Authenticity Statement 100% of this week’s newsletter was generated by me, the human. You will see bountiful AI…

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  • Why Generative AI Struggles with Math (And How to Fix It)

    When it comes to reporting with data, especially quantitative data, in generative AI, you have to answer a critical question: Are we using the data for the report, or in the report? This seemingly pedantic question is vitally important. Will the data be used in the report itself, or will the data be used to…

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  • Is “Human in the Loop” AIโ€™s Biggest Flaw?

    The AI optimist crowd loves the phrase “human in the loop”. And there’s value in it, in having humans – the stakeholders – validate what AI is doing, ensuring that it’s not going off the rails, hallucinating, etc. Human in the loop means having a human being act as a circuit breaker for when the…

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  • H1B Visa Fee Surge: Is Big Tech Secretly Pushing for AI to Replace Workers?

    WARNING: Politics and economics! Letโ€™s dig into the H1B thing. If you missed the news, the US government has announced that it is increasing the fee for the H1B visa from around US 2500 to US 100000, a 39x increase in cost. According to Reuters, US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said โ€œAll the major companies…

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  • How AI Is Generating the Equivalent of 3,846 New Windows 10 Versions Every Week

    Let’s talk about this Anthropic report because, as with the MIT study, there’s a lot of headline parroting and not much actually reading the report. The big thing that stands out to me is just how massively overindexed coding tasks are in the report. Coding – software development – is being absolutely devoured by AI.…

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  • Are You Using the Dumbest AI Model Without Realizing It?

    Chances are, you’re accidentally using dumb AI. Spoiler: if you’re not actively making model choices in the AI tools you use, you’re probably inadvertently using dumb AI models. Broadly, there are two classes of large language models – reasoning and non-reasoning. Reasoning models are models like GPT-5-Thinking and Gemini 2.5 Pro and Claude Sonnet 4.5…

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  • Almost Timely News: ๐Ÿ—ž๏ธ How to Improve Sales Skills with Generative AI (2025-11-02)

    Almost Timely News: ๐Ÿ—ž๏ธ How to Improve Sales Skills with Generative AI (2025-11-02) :: View in Browser The Big Plug ๐Ÿ‘‰ Watch my MAICON 2025 session, From Text to Video in Seconds, a session on AI video generation! Content Authenticity Statement 100% of this week’s newsletter was generated by me, the human. You will see…

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  • AI Wonโ€™t Show Your Business If You Hide Your Pricingโ€”Hereโ€™s Why

    This is a gentle reminder to everyone who has a commercial website without pricing on it. When someone asks ChatGPT/Gemini/AI the following: “Hey ChatGPT, I’m looking to hire a new PR agency. I’m specifically looking to get in with influencers, Substacks, and local press/trade press. Of these, Substacks are my highest priority so the agency…

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  • How AI Supercharges Creativity Instead of Killing It

    “AI is destroying creativity.” Then it was never there to begin with. Truly creative people NEED to create. They need to make things. They have ideas that are burning inside to get out. AI doesn’t suppress that. If anything, AI enables that. When I look at my work and play over the last 2 years,…

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  • Why Marketers Are Getting Kicked Off Reddit (And How to Survive)

    I feel a tiny bit sorry for all the marketers rushing to join and participate on Reddit after hearing lots of pundits say Reddit is where AI gets its answers. There’s a reason for that. It can be an exceptionally unforgiving place, especially if you are a marketer and your intent is obvious. Reddit tends…

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