At several events I’ve spoken at recently, I’ve been told by people that they feel they’re beginning, intermediate, or advanced in AI. Yet once the session starts, and we start digging in, it becomes abundantly clear that those labels are meaningless. One person’s advanced is another person’s basic. This is especially challenging for those of…
Deborah Carver made this excellent point in one of her posts – that theory is great, but until you tackle real problems, you don’t know the capabilities and limitations of the tools you’re working with. This is doubly true of today’s generative AI models. Jay Baer and Nicole Leffer both asked a related question –…
The closest thing to magic that I teach in my keynotes and workshops when it comes to generative AI is this sentence: Ask me one question at a time until you have enough information to complete the task. Why this? Because generative AI models are optimized to be harmless, helpful, and ‘honest’ in some capacity,…
As I get ready to head to Washington DC next week to speak at the American Federation of Teachers TEACH conference, I have one critically important question for anyone using “AI detectors”: What is your acceptable rate of false accusation? By that I mean, in your own ethics and morals, what is your acceptable rate…
I celebrated an interesting anniversary very recently. Trust Insights, the company I co-founded with Katie Robbert, has now taken the crown as the longest I’ve ever worked at any one company away from the previous record holder, a financial services company in the early 2000s. As a GenXer, I remember growing up listening to my…
