AI tools have been powerhouses for data analytics, reporting, and trend analysis since well before ChatGPT bounced onto the scene. Generative AI is just making it way easier for the average person to make meaning out of massive chunks of numbers. AI is, by nature/programming, brilliant at pattern recognition, especially in large datasets. This means …
I don't know about you, but the idea of having customer service chatbots that are actually helpful sounds amazing! It's a little easier said than done, as Air Canada could tell you after its bot gave out wrong information about tickets that they then had to pay for. A customer assistant chatbot that makes stuff …
Most reports and surveys of generative AI adoption in business puts the marketing function either at, or very near, the top of the adoption curve. Since the LLMs deal with words and communication, same as marketing, this makes sense, especially when you look at the relentless demand for constant, current content across an insane number …
I thought it might be helpful to look at the main areas AI (especially the generative version) are getting involved in the workplace. The first area is general admin, there you're looking at them: Creating emails - especially ones that are fairly standard templated sorts of comms, remember to review the final copy and add …
Vibe coding is where you come up with apps, whether they're web, or mobile, just using normal English language commands. Frankly, I think it works best when you already have a coding background (turbo-charging your expertise), but if you need to brief something to a more tech-type person, vibe coding can get you to a …
I recently taught a workshop on moving past basic prompting, and thought I'd share the content here. Let's face it, we're all supposed to be using these tools, and getting better, faster, stronger, etc., but how many people have actually been taught about prompting? LLMs are powerful but lazy, literal, and very keen to please …
Infographics in NotebookLM NotebookLM has added Nano Banana to its construction toolkit and in addition to much better slides and videos (narrated slides), it now does seriously good infographics. I uploaded an article on the Taxonomy of Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen-AI) Use in Marketing (you can get the pre-print pdf here). Below is the taxonomy …
I bounced into AI agent-land a little while ago with this image creator on Glif, but wanted to dig in a bit more and see how many ways I could pull together an automatic news update email. Preferably for free. News Agent 1 - ChatGPT (paid account $20 per month) So this is the most …
Returning to the experiments of Google Labs this week, I decided to use Whisk to create a few Christmas card options. The results are...variable... Whisk works by combining up to three images - one subject, one scene, and one style into a new, blended, concoction. You can choose to upload an image (you need to …
The company I work for closes down over Christmas/New Year and since I'm not going anywhere this year, I decided an at-home writing retreat might be fun You can find residential writing retreats in all sorts of amazing places, at any time of the year, covering time as short as a weekend, up to a …
AI for Squishy Humans 