🔮 The future isn't AI-first - it's human-first with AI-powered humans. A lot of people think AI is coming for their jobs. They’re wrong. AI is coming for their tasks. But the work that matters — the uniquely human work — still belongs to us. What makes us human is what makes us valuable, in a [...]
“The shape of the traditional hierarchy is going to change, especially as people become moderators of AI output.” - Dr Amanda Williamson The #AotearoaAISummit hosted by the AI Forum NZ explored some really interesting conversations last week. Here are my takeaways: The emcee Megan Tapsell shared that what 5 BAs could do in 1 [...]
"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 [...]
“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 [...]
“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. [...]
“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 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 [...]
📊 "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 [...]
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 [...]
'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 [...]