š® 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. Theyāre wrong. AI is coming for theirĀ tasks. But the work that matters ā the uniquely human work ā still belongs to us. What makes us human is what makes us valuable, in a [...]
š 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: šĀ +45%Ā inĀ ConfidenceĀ in using AI tools for daily tasks š ļøĀ +56%Ā in ability to craft effective AIĀ Prompts āā”Ā +65%Ā inĀ efficiencyĀ improvement on productivity šÆĀ +75%Ā in [...]
āThe shape of the traditional hierarchy is going to change, especially as people become moderators of AI output.ā - 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 [...]
"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 [...]
Ā "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 [...]
āCensorship 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.ā - 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 OpenAIĀ GPT-5Ā - [...]
Ā āWe are the AI Generation.ā - 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 [...]
āThe future belongs to those who can synthesize, not just analyze. The AI Generalist doesnāt compete with artificial intelligenceāthey choreograph it.ā - 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. [...]
āAI 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.ā - Fan Ho, ED/GM of Solutions and Services Group, Lenovo Asia Pacific As an immigrant, I have an outsider's perspective on [...]
āThis is the last frontier of media - billions of people making high-end content.ā - Chris Valenzuela, Runway CEO Prompt engineers are movie producers now. Producing video content used to require access to equipment, and talent, and funding. Not anymore. Now, you don't need a movie studio, or a graphics budget, or any [...]