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Educate yourself before AI educates you [Now Enrolling – AI-Powered Professionals]
"The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn." — Alvin Toffler We are living through a revolution of intelligence, from human to artificial. The illiterate of the 21st century will be those humans stuck in the 20th century's methods of working. Those of us preparing for the future of work are unlearning, and relearning, how we work, through our relationship with AI. Professionals who take [...]
🚨 An LLM has passed the Turing Test
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. The Turing Test was proposed in 1950 by Alan Turing as a method to determine if a machine could exhibit behaviour as intelligent as a [...]
ChatGPT’s New Image Generator & The Ghibli-fication Controversy
💡Creativity Is Shifting from Craft to Concept Have you tried ChatGPT's new Image Generator? It is miles beyond DALL-E. Some of the things it can do include: Consistent character generation across prompts Simple edits without revising the whole picture Text rendering without misspellings and warps (finally!) And, of course, you can upload any photo with the prompt 'Create image in Studio Ghibli style' and instantly get a warm, friendly illustration: Easy bonus points in your relationship. I sent these to [...]
5 Reasons Plato Would Be Skeptical About GenAI
‽ 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 books, and talked about them. Twice a week in Seminar, we engaged with the original texts of thinkers like Plato, Aristotle, and Ptolemy to work [...]
GenAI: the $85 Billion Productivity Boost for New Zealand
📊 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 Zealand full-time. If 45% of them doubled their productivity, that would mean a productivity boost of $85 billion for the national economy. AI educator Simon [...]
Technology changes exponentially. Guess what that means?
📊 AI synthesizes information faster than you can learn it. Have you heard of Martec's Law? It's a comparison of rates of change. Organisations change slowly, and technology changes exponentially. This creates a capability gap, which eventually requires a reset of the organisation. 💡 What does exponential change mean? We can't keep up by using simple systems. We have to use exponential systems to get ahead. In the age of Generative AI, it's more important that we focus our [...]