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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 [...]
The Role of Humans with 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 in minutes. Prompt: Rockwell style painting of 6 office workers overwhelmed by towers of paperwork But here’s the kicker. Solomon told the Financial Times, “The [...]
[REPLAY] Be More Human: Do the Work that Matters Most with Generative AI
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 replay here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijDCXe4dlO8  Want the TL;DR? Here’s a quick summary with timestamps so you can jump to the good stuff: Warm-Up & Audience Engagement [...]