Content tagged with “ai”

“An okay overview. I think I was looking for more of an in-depth title that got down into specifics of how a chatbot services might work, but perhaps that’s a different book. This is a very promotional title, written by a guy who runs a firm that consults on these things. It’s clearly trying to…”

“ An ‘agentic’ process is one whereby someone else goes and does something with your approval and authority. In the world of AI, it means empowering an AI engine to do something for you. These agents are goal-seeking, adaptible, asynchronous, and have decision making powers. ”

“This was recommended to me by a friend, and a Hacker News thread. It was recommended as a short work of fiction, and it is – it’s a novella, at best. ‘Murderbot’ (a name she gave herself) is a SecUnit – a cyborg security unit, hired to protected a surveying crew on a wilderness planet. Near as I…”

“This is the second book of The Murderbot Diaries. Again, it’s a novella – only 149 pages. This picks up right after the first book. In this installment, she (1) helps a group of scientists get some research back, and (2) investigates a very bad episode from her past. In this sense, it’s like a…”

“A good primer to the field. Hits the right depth between technical and theoretical layers, including quite a bit on ethics. My takeaway is that we’re really, really far away from anything approaching what we think artificial intelligence was going to be. The key is that there’s a difference between…”

“ More of an anthology, perhaps? This book fulfills it’s title, but it careens around weirdly in scope. It goes from very high-level to very low-level. I’m torn on it. It was helpful to prove the point that AI is really category, not a single technology. I’d give it a 3.5 if I could. ”

“This book tries to answer the question: will AI ever be able to emulate human creativity? It never really answers the question, but it’s still very, very interesting. Each chapter covers a different type of creativity: writing, music, art, etc. It’s full of examples and anecdotes about the advances…”

“An okay book which reveals how high-end digital marketing works. It was written by some guys that went to work for Salesforce when it acquired their company. This is not how you or me do marketing – this is how huge brands like Johnson and Johnson and General Motors do marketing. You know all that…”

“The first three chapters which lay out the scenario of mass worker displacement by robots are quite interesting. After that, the book descends into bad science fiction and presents many fundamentally objectionable and downright creepy ideas as obviously wonderful and desirable. The book was written…”

“This article highlights a way that AI is changing the web that’s both subtle yet monumental. To date, search engines crawled your site, and you allowed it, because it was mutually beneficial. You let them – even encouraged them – to consume your content, and in return they sent you traffic. You…”

“Look at this picture. It’s funny – I get it, and so do you. Now, mentally catalog all the different things a computer/AI would have to understand to ‘get’ this picture – to understand this picture the same way your mind does. It’s …sobering. Humans have a background and context of knowledge that’s…”

“AI might have an unintended effect on content preview. Stick with me for a second here – Optimizely tools have supported in-context preview for a long time. Our CMS will let you see what your content looks like in any channel or device, and more recently, our CMP does the same thing. But I’m…”

“Yesterday, I opined that we should extend the concept of ‘preview’ to show how AI might interpret our content. With responsive web design, we’re exposing our content and design to variable VISUAL containers, so we preview in different configurations. With AI, we’re exposing our content to variable…”

“So, here’s an example of how AI might affect expectations around search – Yesterday morning, had a running discussion over Snapchat about good music and new songs with my daughters. Afterwards, I wanted to listen to everything we talked about, so I just copied the entire thread and pasted it into…”

“Last week, I listened to Shafqat Islam, Optimizely’s CMO, talk about how the Opti marketing team created some of our customer case studies. What we did was interview a customer for 30 minutes about their project. Then we gave Opal – our built-in AI tool – the transcript along with all the other…”

“I’ve found one very practical use for AI on my personal website. I have a LOT of content out there, and I haven’t written summaries for it all. When showing this content in lists, I usually just extract about 300 characters to use as a summary, but that’s not perfect. So I bounced a bunch of…”

“I’m struggling with how much a really like AI-generated music. A lot of time, I just have music on in the background while I work., Instrumentals are great for this. Lately, I’ve been listening to ‘Spy Jazz’ which is some moody stuff that sounds like it’s from the 60s. It’s… mindless. It just plays…”

“I’ve started using AI quite a bit to interpret documents. I’ll have some document within which is some nugget of information I want, so I’ll upload it to ChatGPT and say, ‘Read this and tell me [the thing that I want]…’ These feels lazy, but it’s got me wondering if maybe this is a reflection on…”

“We need a new word to describe when you’re interacting with… something, and you’re not sure if it’s a bot or not. I just rescheduled a furnace service appointment at 1 a.m. via text. Awake for no particular reason, I had filled out a web form, not expecting a response until a normal hour. But then…”

“In college, I took a class in German. I wasn’t very good at it, but I’m normally really good at studying and taking tests, so I figured I’d be fine. But there’s the thing: a huge part of my grade for the class was an ‘oral exam,’ which meant I just had to sit in my professor’s office and have a…”

“I did a webinar the other day with my friend Jill about the usage of AI. (Recording available sometime soon, I hope.) A point that occurred to me – AI can wraps a message in context. AI can also unwrap that context and reveal the original message. So, what are we really communicating? I saw a…”

“When people talk about generative AI, I think they’re often just kind of lumping all the usage patterns together. I feel like organizations are doing an actual, tactical examination about how they might get AI to co-exist with humans in a process. I sat down this morning and tossed around some…”

“I completed my first significant ‘scratch’ coding exercise using AI. I needed to write a C# class to track a graph of HTML links and store them in a SQLite database. I asked GitHub Copilot to write this while I was listening to a webinar. It dutifully complied. I looked at the code, but couldn’t…”

“Back in the mid-80s, ‘Star Trek IV’ was in theaters. It was a great movie about how the Enterprise had to go back in time to the mid-80s (the present-day for movie goers). The humor of the movie was mostly because the crew of the Enterprise had to survive in the 80s. It was a classic fish out of…”

“ Another page-turner. More horror than science, unlike Airframe . Truly scary in places, with a nihilistic bent. Got me wondering if this is something that could actually happen. ”

“Here’s the bizarre thing about RAG: it basically flips what you thought you understood about AI on its head, and beckons you to understand it more accurately. LLMs are static things. They are trained at a point in time, and cannot be ‘updated’ in the sense that you’re probably thinking. An LLM…”