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Christopher S Penn
“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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Christopher S Penn
One of the top skills in an AI-forward world? Asking good questions. Not too long ago, Rebecca Bultsma introduced me to what looked like an interesting piece of software that did near real-time transcription using the microphone on your Mac and transcribing it right into the text box where you’re typing it. That looked super…
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Christopher S Penn
Almost every AI course is the same, conceptually. Here’s how to prompt. Here’s how to set up this or that. Here’s how to do this thing. These are the cooking equivalents of how to use a blender. How to cook a dish. How to write a menu item. They’re good. They’re important. They’re foundation skills.…
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Christopher S Penn
Hot take: 95% of people reading the MIT AI study and claiming AI is a failure either know nothing about AI, didn’t read the study, or know nothing about enterprise business. Let’s talk about why. First, the study said that in the study period, only 5% of task-specific embedded GenAI projects emerged from pilot. Let’s…
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Christopher S Penn
In the world of vibe coding, one of the things to be on the lookout for is over-engineering. Remember that generative AI is trained on patterns from its training data. And that training data can be anything from some kid’s MIT Scratch project all the way up to enterprise grade software. And enterprise grade software…
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Summary In today's episode, I examine how to use generative AI for LinkedIn automation without sacrificing quality or reputation. Here's what this means for you. You can build smart automation that provides value instead of triggering algorithmic penalties. You'll also learn these concepts: the distinction between deterministic and probabilistic tasks, the dangers of generating content…
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Christopher S Penn
Let’s talk about your digital ghost. In the age before generative AI, when you left a company, the company usually just archived all your stuff, removed your name from the blog, and you were never spoken of again. Perhaps a few long-timers fondly remembered you or kept in touch on LinkedIn, but once you were…
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Christopher S Penn
An interesting side consequence of generative AI in recruiting and hiring is that recruiters, agencies, and partners (Disclosure: I’m an advisor to GlobalPros.ai, an AI-assisted hiring platform) are more relevant than ever. I used to be a technical recruiter. I lasted 6 months, because it’s a punishing job, always looking for new job orders to…
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Christopher S Penn
If AI, as some are positing, is going to obliterate critical thinking and reduce people to the mindless blobs featured in WALL-E… isn’t that good for you? If everyone around you is average at best… then won’t you stand out more? If all the snake oil folks’ slop they’re peddling is mindless dreck that doesn’t…
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Christopher S Penn
This meme greatly amused me because it’s true. Scroll through your LinkedIn feed. 1 year, 11 months ago, ChatGPT debuted to the world. How many of the people you’re connected to who are now AI experts had any expertise in AI prior to November 30, 2022? How do you know the difference? Who knows what…
