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OpenAI’s Incredible New Announcements (+Announcing: The AI F.A.S.T. Class)

By Caelan Huntress|2025-12-31T16:25:06+13:00October 7th, 2025|Articles, GenAI|

📊 Microsoft estimates New Zealanders could save an average of 275 hours per year by using artificial intelligence. If you want to learn AI F.A.S.T. then I have the class for you. Participants in my workshops have demonstrated: 📈 +45% in Confidence in using AI tools for daily tasks 🛠️ +56% in ability to craft effective AI Prompts ‍⚡ +65% in efficiency improvement on productivity 🎯 +75% in [...]

Learn AI with 30 AI Games in 30 Days

By Caelan Huntress|2025-12-31T16:25:31+13:00September 16th, 2025|Articles, GenAI, Play|

"We don't play games to avoid work; we play games to engage in well-designed work." - Dr Jason Fox If you gamify your work, you can get more done, in good cheer. That's the lesson learned from a recent AI Games Playtesting event I held in Christchurch. A dozen playtesters [...]

Avoid Hallucinations with the Accuracy Output Mandate

By Caelan Huntress|2025-12-31T16:26:00+13:00August 26th, 2025|Articles, Business, GenAI|

"Vision without execution is hallucination."- Thomas EdisonWhat is a hallucination? It's not so trippy. With an LLM, a hallucination is a factual error asserted confidently.GPTs only create strings of words that sounds like language. If it doesn't know the facts, it fills in gaps with fiction.Responses are only accurate if you explicitly demand accuracy.Try this [...]

New AI Strategies from US and China – Zoomers vs Bloomers

By Caelan Huntress|2025-12-31T16:26:25+13:00August 19th, 2025|Articles, GenAI|

“Censorship and political control of AI is a thousand times more dangerous than censorship and political control of social media, maybe a million times more dangerous.” - Marc Andreessen There have been a lot of practical advances in AI tools recently, including: ChatGPT Agent - now it can do things, not just make things OpenAI GPT-5 - [...]

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

By Caelan Huntress|2025-12-31T16:26:34+13:00July 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 Caelan Huntress|2025-12-31T16:26:41+13:00July 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 Caelan Huntress|2025-12-31T16:26:49+13:00July 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 Caelan Huntress|2025-12-31T16:27:02+13:00June 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 Caelan Huntress|2025-12-31T16:27:08+13:00May 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 Caelan Huntress|2025-12-31T16:27:13+13:00May 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 [...]