Much of the power behind AI is when automation makes work seamless. Part 1 in this series provided the architecture of my Second Brain while Part 2 provided the core work pieces, in terms...
As part of my course on using AI in business, I felt compelled to develop workflows using AI that automated or augmented parts of my course tasks – as a proof of concept for...
With two kids in college and another a junior in high school, talk around our house often revolves around careers, majors, and classes. And with my obsession with all things AI, one topic that...
Reading about the history of the integrated circuit in The Chip by T. R. Reid, there’s an interesting section explaining how Intel quickly realized that building different integrated circuits for hundreds of products simply...
In 1998, I graduated from college in the height of the Internet boom, just before the Internet bubble. Crazy returns on stock investments led more investors to flood the market. Ryan Jacob shared with...
Imagine… A Human Resource representative, charged with hiring an employee for new technology initiative, puts together a job ad. The HR rep partially understands the technology, but not completely. As they start writing the...
Meet Manuel Hoffmann, a Harvard Postdoctoral Researcher working in the Laboratory for Innovation Science. His latest study “Generative AI and the Nature of Work” looks at how programmers changed their behavior when introduced to...
AI promises to transform our world. With in influx of generative tools, from ChatGPT to MidJourney, people are starting to question what fields will be transformed. Some people argue that some fields, such as...
How fast can I build a course using the new ChatGPT? A couple weeks ago, I attended a session on using AI for course development. It got me to wondering just how fast I...
A couple days ago, I was shocked to read a story by philosophy professor Darren Hick out of Furman University. He shared publicly on Facebook a story about a student using AI generated essays...
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