Your idea is a prompt away from being brought to life. The power of the current generation of AI models is so great that with just an idea and the ability to articulate it and answer questions, it’s just a prompt away from reality. This morning as I got ready to present to SMPS Ontario,…
Don’t let knowledge walk out the door. One of the greatest challenges every company faces is the loss of institutional knowledge. Why? Because documenting knowledge takes time and effort. Time that busy people aren’t willing to invest – even when they know it will save them time in the future. Other folks who are insecure…
OpenAI: “Codex helps you code faster!” Google: “Gemini is the best coding model and Jules helps you code!” Anthropic: “Claude is the smartest coding model!” Do you see the trend? And this isn’t just these companies, everyone touts their models’ ability to code. DeepSeek. Alibaba. Mistral. Cohere. When people talk about jobs AI will take,…
What keeps me up at night, besides watching reruns, is AI. Not the technology. The technology is fine. The use of the technology. Every day, I grow increasingly pessimistic about human nature and how human fundamental behaviors will take ever more powerful technology and use it for the least good outcomes – increased income inequality.…
“Why doesn’t AI sound like me?” The recent academic paper “From Tokens to Thoughts” explains exactly why, albeit in a technical way. LLMs – the engines that power tools like ChatGPT – are compression engines. They take big data and compress it into small data so that AI can efficiently predict the next set of…
Can you build a three layer cake by starting with the third layer? Can you deploy code before writing it? Can you publish an ugly first draft and get great results? One of the biggest flaws I see in AI implementation today is rushing ahead. Lack of patience. Taking shortcuts. Cutting corners. If your idea…
Another class graduated. One of my great joys is teaching the SMPS AEC.AI workshop twice a year to AEC (architecture, engineering, and construction) professionals. This two-day intensive is AI bootcamp for AEC pros to get up to speed quickly on the latest in AI. By the end of the event, folks walk away with training…
SEO expert Aleyda Solis shared this quote from Google’s John Mueller recently about the Search Quality Rating Guidelines: 4.6.6 MC Created with Little to No Effort, Little to No Originality, and Little to No Added Value for Website Visitors The Lowest rating applies if all or almost all of the MC on the page (including…
