📊 "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 [...]
'We don't rise to the level of our expectations, we fall to the level of our training.' - Archilochus You know that feeling when you're juggling five ideas, six tabs, and a dozen half-finished chats with ChatGPT? Your brain is buzzing, your files are scattered, and your best insights are lost in the mess. Now [...]
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. [...]
‽ What Would Plato Say About AI? Here Are 5 Reasons He’d Have Doubts… When I was a young man in Santa Fe, New Mexico, I immersed myself in the Great Books of history. I studied the humanities intensely at St. John’s College. This eclectic school had no tests, no grades - we read challenging [...]
📊 45% of respondents in Google’s survey, The ROI of GenAI, said using Generative AI doubled their productivity.¹ How much could you accomplish with double the productivity? Let's take a look at the value proposition. The average salary in New Zealand is $65,748.80. According to StatsNZ, there are 2.9 million people working in New [...]
✨ Humans are the magic in the last 5%. AI can handle 95% of the grind work - even for an S-1 IPO Prospectus. According to Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon, this massive document used to take a six-person team multiple weeks to produce. Now, Generative AI can draft 95% of an S-1 IPO prospectus [...]
The replay is live! If you missed Be More Human: Do the Work that Matters Most with Generative AI, now’s your chance to catch up. In this session, we explored how to work smarter with AI—so you can amplify your creativity, streamline your workflow, and identify the human work that really matters. 🎬 Watch the [...]
🇳🇿 I am now a New Zealand citizen! It all started 15 years ago, when my young family and I left the United States to seek better fortunes abroad. First we went to Costa Rica for a few years, which had its pluses and its minuses. Ultimately, it wasn't a good fit for us. Eight [...]
📊 More than 80% of people surveyed for Microsoft's Work Trends Index said that using GenAI made them more creative, and they also enjoyed their work more. When Jensen Huang took the stage last month at CES 2025, the world's largest consumer electronics expo, he called AI a "multi-trillion dollar opportunity. Source He shared [...]
📊 Prompting is the most important skill of the future. Good prompts get good outputs, and if you're not working on your prompting skills (promptly!) then you are falling behind. You know what they say, 'Garbage in, garbage out.' If your prompts are garbage, your results will be, too. But if you use a [...]