I asked my Weekly Thing GPT a simple question “Which issue did the Fortune first appear in?”. Seems easy enough. It came back with Weekly Thing 212 in 2022. I knew that was not right. The right answer? Weekly Thing 53 in 2018. Another example where LLMs are not great at specific and exact requests. 🤨
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How I Use AI in the Weekly Thing
I’ve been working with AI for a while now, and as I feel with all new technologies, the best way to learn them is to play with them. I’ve started to bring AI into my workflow for the Weekly Thing and thought it would be good to share specifically where and how I’m using it. …
Keep reading · 9 minutes: How I Use AI in the Weekly ThingToday I Learned: LLM’s are exceptional at making custom word lists for Pictionary-style games. Just added a couple new word lists to SketchParty TV!
Weekly Thing GPT
I created a custom GPT for the Weekly Thing! You’ll need a ChatGPT account (I think free is fine) and you can go to: Weekly Thing GPT. This is a custom GPT that I’ve made available to anyone. It is loaded with all 310 issues of the Weekly Thing published so far. You can ask it …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Weekly Thing GPTA computer can never be held accountable
Simon Willison shared this excerpt from an IBM training manual on his blog recently. Willison did some research on this and tracked it down to a training manual from 1979. I’m reading this 46 years later and it hits very different in our modern age of AI. Does AI make this …
Keep reading · 1 minute: A computer can never be held accountableI created a hierarchal view of my blog pages so that I could try to organize this better. This shows why I wish the Pages section of micro.blog was a bit more sophisticated. I took the outline and then gave it to ChatGPT and asked it to recommend a better way to structure it.
Appears that OpenAI isn’t keeping up with the ChatGPT Extension launch in Apple Intelligence today. Trying to sign in with my account for the extension.
I saw this graph on Tyler Cowen’s blog and it blew my mind how much is “alone”. In the comments someone did a stack area version which is much more readable.
We need to spend less time alone. If that isn’t possible, this is one area I think AI could be “helpful”. Spend time talking to AI?
MISRC Digital Leadership Conference
I attended this mornings MISRC Digital Leadership Conference: Charting the AI Journey and also spoke on a panel with Jean Machart and Elwin Loomis about strategy around AI. Cris Ross from Mayo Clinic shared how they are using AI and that he believes AI will impact healthcare more …
Keep reading · 1 minute: MISRC Digital Leadership ConferenceUpgraded to iOS 18.1 and took less than 10 minutes on the “waitlist” to get provisioned with Apple Intelligence. Looking forward to playing with this. 🧠
