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Since nothing attracts clicks like KPop Demon Hunters, I thought I would use the movie to illustrate a point about AI. Like many a KPDH fan, I’ve gone down the YouTube rabbit hole of “Golden” cover versions. Eventually, I found an “almost” heavy metal cover, which I quite enjoyed. Then when I read the comments, … Continue reading What AI Covers Of KPop Demon Hunters Songs Teach Us About AI
Too many companies confuse buying AI with adopting AI. A new report from MIT’s NANDA initiative (Networked Agents and Decentralized AI) analyzed 300 public AI deployments, and found that only 5% saw rapid revenue acceleration (mostly at startups). This issue isn’t technology. It’s adoption. The majority of AI application budgets are going to sales and … Continue reading Don’t Confuse Buying AI with Adopting AI
The #1 question I’m asked by audiences is how parents should prepare their kids for the age of AI. My response is: “Seek understanding, not just answers.” Using AI to get answers is like peeking at the answer key for a test–you might get a good score, but you won’t learn anything. If you use … Continue reading Seek Understanding, Not Just Answers From AI
One of the dangers that has folks worried about the heavy use of AI is the possibility that our cognitive skills will atrophy from lack of use. Wall Street Journal tech reporter Sam Schechner recently wrote an essay describing how reliance on ChatGPT had eroded his skills (here’s a link to a non-paywalled article about … Continue reading The Coming Importance of Deliberate Cognitive Exercise
I recently discovered a new AI-driven phenomenon: AI-driven YouTube channels that crank out summaries of bestselling books. Since I have a Google Alert set for “Blitzscaling,” I get notified when Google finds new Blitzscaling-related content. A couple of days ago, I received an alert about a new video: It’s trivial now to set up a … Continue reading Standing Out Is Harder (And More Important) Than Ever Before
When people talk about using AI to augment their own intelligence, they’re missing the real point. While it is certainly a positive move to augment one’s own intelligence, a far more powerful approach is to amplify your own efforts by increasing the number of intelligences working on your behalf. We often ascribe superhuman intelligence to … Continue reading The Power of AI Isn’t Augmentation, It’s Amplification
When a new technology arrives, people often focus on the first-order effects of that technology. These are important, and should be taken into account, but to get ahead of the crowd, consider the second, or even third order effects. This general principle will likely be true about AI as well. A lot of people have … Continue reading Prediction: AI will lead to a Cambrian explosion of comics and graphic novels
We live in a world where immediacy has become the cardinal virtue. More and more attention is focusing on real-time communications and messaging, both for consumers and businesses (e.g. Slack). But this focus comes with major implications and consequences. Immediacy delivers on-demand dopamine hits. We get instant gratification, not just because of the content of … Continue reading Immediacy, Quality, and AI