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…
One of the concepts I share in my keynotes and courses is the conduit of authenticity. In an age when you can freely and easily use generative AI to manufacture ANYTHING, people will manufacture anything – including things damaging to you. If your internal processes are glacial – meaning it takes a week for someone…
Attention is all you need… to understand. This is a play on the title of the academic paper “Attention is All You Need”, which introduced the concept of attention and the transformers architecture, the technical underpinning that powers tools like ChatGPT. What makes attention so powerful compared to earlier forms of AI? This is the…
AI is the engine. By this, I mean almost literally in a car analogy. AI is the engine. It’s not the entire car. What are the other parts of the car? Oh, you know, the transmission, the body, the seats, steering wheel, the WHEELS. Certainly, a car without an engine isn’t helpful. It’s a very…
One of the concepts I share in my keynotes and courses is the conduit of authenticity. In an age when you can freely and easily use generative AI to manufacture ANYTHING, people will manufacture anything – including things damaging to you. If your internal processes are glacial – meaning it takes a week for someone…
You can’t become a black belt if you never practice white belt techniques. They’re basic. They can seem boring. Punch. Punch. Kick. Kick. Evade. But those white belt techniques become green belt techniques, become brown belt techniques, until one day, years after you’ve stepped through the door of the dojo for the first time, you…
Your prompts are too short. Whatever you’re prompting generative AI with, chances are, it’s too short. You could be including more detail. More background. More context. More process. One of the things I say in my keynotes is that the more relevant, specific words you use in a prompt, the better on average a generative…
“tell ‘em what you’re going to say, say it, and then tell ‘em what you said.” This old saw from public speaking (which is better than aimless rambling but still not great) CAN be made to work with generative AI – and when you do it, AI works better. But instead of tell ’em what…
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,…
