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7 Reasons the AI Forum’s Blueprint is the AI Strategy New Zealand Needs

By |2025-08-02T03:51:31+12:00July 22nd, 2025|Articles, Business, GenAI|

  “We are the AI Generation.” - Doreen Bogdan-Martin Last week I published a scathing teardown of the 22-page AI Strategy published by the New Zealand government. (Read that teardown here.) This failure reminds me of the stick-in-spokes meme, because there was already a lot of progress completed in creating a comprehensive AI strategy for [...]

New Zealand’s new AI strategy is AI slop

By |2025-07-23T02:08:47+12:00July 15th, 2025|Articles, Business, GenAI|

“The future belongs to those who can synthesize, not just analyze. The AI Generalist doesn’t compete with artificial intelligence—they choreograph it.” - Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind As the only country in the OECD that had yet to publish an AI Strategy, New Zealand has finally published a 22-page document full of AI slop. [...]

NZ adoption of AI – are kiwis fast, or slow?

By |2025-07-06T02:30:27+12:00July 1st, 2025|Articles, Balance, Business, Content Marketing, GenAI, Productivity|

“AI adoption is not just about the short-term gains. Organizations need to invest in the efficiency of the design, deployment, and integration of AI solutions to their operations that enable tracking of the impact.” - Fan Ho, ED/GM of Solutions and Services Group, Lenovo Asia Pacific As an immigrant, I have an outsider's perspective on [...]

AI Context Secrets: How to Get Better Results from ChatGPT

By |2025-06-07T02:41:13+12:00June 3rd, 2025|Articles, Business, Content Marketing, GenAI, Productivity|

“AI is very good at content, but not context. Without context, it doesn’t know what to do, so it doesn’t have any purpose.” - Daniel Priestley The quality of your AI outputs depends on the context you give it. What is Context with AI? Think of it like having a conversation. If your partner doesn’t [...]

Big, big news week for AI (plus post-TechWeek replays)

By |2025-06-02T03:00:37+12:00May 27th, 2025|Articles, Business, Content Marketing, GenAI|

  📊 "Generative AI is expected to give the average worker 275 additional hours per year to dedicate to high-value tasks, improving productivity 15.5% by 2038.” - p.13 of Microsoft’s report, ‘Economic Opportunity of Generative AI in New Zealand’ Last week, I taught a bunch of workshops for TechWeekNZ. This was my 7th year teaching [...]

The Best Prompts Are AI-Generated Prompts

By |2025-05-25T03:07:51+12:00May 25th, 2025|Articles, GenAI|

With infinite answers now available, asking the right question becomes priceless. Most people think prompt engineering is about getting better at telling AI what to do. But the real power move is asking AI what it needs from you. With infinite information on tap, AI doesn’t struggle with answers. It struggles with ambiguity. Precision gives [...]

Educate yourself before AI educates you [Now Enrolling – AI-Powered Professionals]

By |2025-04-19T04:04:49+12:00April 15th, 2025|Articles, GenAI|

"The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn." — Alvin Toffler We are living through a revolution of intelligence, from human to artificial. The illiterate of the 21st century will be those humans stuck in the 20th century's methods of [...]

🚨 An LLM has passed the Turing Test

By |2025-04-11T03:44:07+12:00April 8th, 2025|Articles, Business, GenAI|

Robots can now out-human humans. In a recent study, more than 1000 people at UC San Diego took part in a classic Turing test with four GenAI models. GPT-4.5 was selected as the real human 73% of the time, according to this preprint study released last week. This marks a significant milestone in AI development. [...]

ChatGPT’s New Image Generator & The Ghibli-fication Controversy

By |2025-04-04T04:20:34+13:00April 2nd, 2025|Articles, Content Marketing, Excellence, GenAI, Productivity|

💡Creativity Is Shifting from Craft to Concept Have you tried ChatGPT's new Image Generator? It is miles beyond DALL-E. Some of the things it can do include: Consistent character generation across prompts Simple edits without revising the whole picture Text rendering without misspellings and warps (finally!) And, of course, you can upload any photo with [...]

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