Resources and practical examples of how to work with AI to write and edit and do research. Advice about ethics and safety. Bring your whole human self to the process of working with AI.
The AI hype that floods our screens is all about productivity and efficiency. But there are some small fun and useful ways to interact with AI.
At the end of a year of AI hype and drama – and assuming that many people are taking a break from work even if only for a short time – let’s look at some small, useful and fun ways in which AI can brighten our lives.
Continue readingGenerative AI – famously and infamously – gets things wrong. How to deal with that when it comes to representing actual people?
Continue readingIf you run a small business, you’re short on time and long on tasks. I’m suggesting that SEO is simply not worth worrying about…
If you are tired of London, you are tired of life.
So said Samuel Johnson in 1777 (if this odd post is anything to go by).
In 2024, if I am tired (to my bones) of SEO, does that mean I am tired of the Internet?
Continue readingThere are two words in the phrase “artificial intelligence”. And it is only one of them poses the real dangers we face…
I not sure I want to read another article about artificial intelligence. I’m not sure I want to write one, either.
Continue readingIf you work in the creative industries (writing, editing), artificial intelligence looms like a tsunami over you. My thoughts on a way forward…
Just over a year ago, I wrote a post about ChatGPT and its possible effect on content creators.
My conclusion then remains my conclusion now:
Continue readingI’ve discovered something amazing – a use of the ChatGPT AI software that I will use again, and again.
The tip comes from a post on LinkedIn by Conor Grennan, Dean of Students, NYU Stern School of Business, who urges people to move beyond asking ChatGPT to “Write an email to my boss!” or “Create 25 taglines for my business!” Continue reading
Knowledge workers everywhere have been shaken and stirred by the advent of ChatGPT – a new bit of software that has already made my life as a writer easier, though I am not sure yet if it qualifies for that elite list, called “technology I can’t live without”.
Because there is such a list!
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