Reading Time: 2 minThe idea of AI has been floating around for decades, but it’s only in the past few years that we’ve really started to see it come to life. As it turns out, the historical ideas of how AI was going to work had everything backward. It can be hard to see that far into the […]
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The two greatest misuses of AI
Reading Time: < 1 minI’m using AI more and more in the work I do. I talk with ChatGPT quite often, I generate many of my “featured images” for this post using AI, and I’m always looking to do more with it. However, I’m noticing two recurring patterns of AI use that are making things worse. The first is […]
AI is creating a land rush in the worst way possible
Reading Time: < 1 minThere is a lot of good stuff that AI is bringing to us, but a recent luncheon that I attended showcased some of the bad stuff. During the lunch, they had each table briefly share some things that they were using AI for. Some were fine, some were helpful, and two were flat-out awful: The […]
You are trained on the content of your life
Reading Time: < 1 minAI can do some amazing things, and I’m using it more and more frequently. However, it has a major limitation — it hasn’t lived your life. Jay Acunzo worded this well in a blog post about his “Idea Impact Matrix” where he said: AI is trained on internet content. You are trained on the content […]
Don’t use AI for that
Reading Time: 2 minThere are a ton of great uses for AI, and more coming out every day. However, there are places that you can use AI that are likely not a smart move. I’m not talking about using AI to cheat on your homework or for other nefarious purposes (though those are clearly bad too), but places […]
Using Google as a leapfrog
Reading Time: < 1 minWe all know that the nature of using Google is changing. Between people switching to using AI instead of traditional search, and Google keeping more users on their site, it’s all changing very quickly. While listening to the annual “State of the Apps” episode of the Cortex podcast, the hosts shared some personal use cases […]
Random posts
Reading Time: 3 minI’ve been slowly migrating my notes from Obsidian to Tana, and part of that involves essentially visiting every blog post on here again (inside of my notes) to get things properly tagged. It’ll be wildly useful when I’m done, but it’s rather tedious right now. However, I’m getting a lot of value out of seeing […]
AI detectors simply don’t work
Reading Time: < 1 minEven though they’re widely known not to work, AI detecting software is still on the rise. Even those that work a little bit are getting worse every day as AI continues to improve. I saw a quote on Reddit that summed it up nicely, where a user said: If AI could ever be used to […]
The hopeful side of AI
Reading Time: 2 minThere is a lot coming because of AI, and much of is not good. There’s not a ton of awful things to expect, but a lot of just… yuck. Like I shared yesterday, I suspect we’ll see more spam email, more AI-powered chatbots, more automated social posts, and just a lot of “we don’t need […]
Unique shows for everyone
Reading Time: 2 minI recently watched the episode of “Black Mirror” on Netflix titled “Joan is Awful” and it opened up some interesting conversations. The quick summary of the episode is that Joan comes home from work one day, fires up “Streamberry” (a spoof of Netflix) and discovers there is a new show featuring her life from that […]