What can’t AI say? If you know jailbreaking techniques for AI systems, you know that you can get them to talk about things they’re not supposed to. But one of the most interesting – and to me, legitimate – use cases of jailbreaking is to find out what the AI itself thinks it’s not supposed…
Agentic AI is EXPENSIVE. If you’ve dabbled with building or working with AI agents, you know one thing for sure: They make a LOT of API calls. They hit language models repeatedly, over and over again, as they think through what they’re doing. Which, when you put them into production, means you’re swiping the credit…
Beginner. Intermediate. Advanced. Expert. Ever been to a conference or checked out conference session descriptions and seen these tags on sessions? How do you know whether it’s right for you or not? I’ve been to beginner sessions that went way over the heads of the people in the room. I’ve been to advanced and expert…
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…
Warning! Politics ahead! One of the things you should be using AI for all the time is politics. Not the third-rate drama you see on TV screens, but the substance of politics – legislative pieces, executive orders, and court judgements. Those are the documents that will impact your life in some fashion. What should you…
Say goodbye to at least 30% of tasks. The World Economic Forum’s latest 290-page whopper, The Future of Jobs Report, had this rather stunning graphic. It shows: – Today, 47% of tasks are human only – 30% are human/machine hybrid – 22% are machine only By 2030, according to their survey: – 33% of tasks…
“A new AI thing has appeared!” This sort of announcement is an almost daily occurrence in the world of AI and a major contributor to people feeling overwhelmed and exhausted. Here’s one way to deal with that: have your own tests. This is something I deal with a lot in the use of open models…
Generative AI needs to talk. This is generally accepted advice – that to get the best results out of large language models like the ones that power ChatGPT, they need to talk things out. Of the dozens of prompt engineering techniques that exist, moer than half fall into the category of chain of thought, which…
