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Christopher S Penn
Probability is not truth. Imagine this. 100 people sit in a Zoom call (painful, I know). On that call is one expert. Let’s say they’re an expert in LLMs. They understand the transformers architecture, they know how dot products work, they understand embedding distances, etc. Let’s say the other 99 people are the village idiots.…
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Christopher S Penn
OpenAI is declaring Code Red, but they’re boxed in. Literally. ChatGPT and similar products exist in a box that isn’t connected by default to anything. Anthropic wisely has cozied up hard to Microsoft, with MS Office documents as part of their native skills and connectors to everything they can possibly connect to. And Google… well,…
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Christopher S Penn
“If you do it with a template today, a machine does it without you tomorrow.” This was the warning I urged in my very first AI talk on stage at Social Media Marketing World in 2016, 9 years ago. Earlier today, Ruby King and I were discussing that Spotify’s charts are littered with AI-created music,…
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Christopher S Penn
If farming automation allowed farmers to compress 4,200 hours of labor into 2 hours, increase yields 10x through loss reduction, and dramatically expand their farms’ production, why aren’t farmers rich? Well… there are a variety of reasons. They don’t own the means of production. The John Deere X9 1100 I mentioned in my last post…
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Christopher S Penn
Never is sooner than you think. “AI will never…” Make a decent ad? They’re in production. Make a hit song? Walk My Walk topped Spotify’s charts. Star in a film? Tilly Norwood would like a word with you. Betting on never, at least when it comes to AI, is probably not a sound choice. Back…
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Christopher S Penn
“I don’t know what to post on LinkedIn!” Just from your phone alone: Turn on screen recording. Choose a hashtag for your topic. Swipe through 30 seconds of your feed. Save the video and open it in the genAI tool of your choice, like Google Gemini. Have it transcribe all the posts you swiped through.…
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Christopher S Penn
“Home isn’t a place, it’s a people.” – paraphrasing Thor Ragnarok Lots of events build community in some fashion. I’ve had the pleasure and privilege to speak at many of them, from Boston to Melbourne. Lots of events create value for attendees, sponsors, and speakers. Lots of events are worth going to. But very, very…
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Christopher S Penn
You can no longer opt out of AI. The biggest change that AI-enabled browsers makes isn’t to the people using them, it’s to everyone’s data that’s being seen by them. Perplexity’s Comet. ChatGPT Atlas. Google Gemini. Take your pick of the AI-enabled browser of your choice because they all have the same general privacy provisions.…
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Christopher S Penn
Are you thinking horizontally AND vertically? One of the most useful meta skills in the age of AI is to know how to think horizontally AND vertically, especially as agents become the norm for how we use AI. Here’s what I mean. When we’re developing AI use cases, when we’re implementing AI, we have to…
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Christopher S Penn
This is for the event planners out there. If you’re not already providing your conference agenda in Markdown format, you’re missing a golden opportunity to help people get the most out of your event or even to decide whether or not to attend your event. Here’s why: a single Markdown file is something an attendee,…
