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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 [...]

🚨 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. [...]

GenAI: the $85 Billion Productivity Boost for New Zealand

By |2025-03-21T03:43:43+13:00March 18th, 2025|Articles, Business, Productivity|

  📊 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 [...]

The Role of Humans with GenAI

By |2025-04-01T17:43:14+13:00March 3rd, 2025|Articles, Balance, Business, Excellence, GenAI|

✨ 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 [...]

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