My Year of

Will management consulting jobs be destroyed by generative AI?

The situations where generative AI shines are where an approximately correct answer, rather than an exact answer, is good enough. Many areas of management consulting are ripe for generative AI.

Wrestling with the Misinformation – Censorship Tension (Part 1 of ??)

when the information environment is polluted with misinformation at the same time as efforts to censor resources are based on claims – often untrue – that the information is inaccurate.

writing

Generative AI is Used as an Emotional Bodyguard

Those essays are written for scholarships or admittance to graduate school, where students clearly are being judged. They are exercises in personal presentation, at least as much as they are exercises in personal discovery.

News

The Imitation Game is Still an Imitation

As best I can tell, what is disturbing, aside from the unnaturalness of the avatars, is that the avatars are being treated as if they were real, or at least more real than actors. What news show would bring in an actor to play the character of a dead teen and treat it as newsworthy?

writing

The AI Can't Do Anything Better than I Can

Maybe I can beat a chatbot at sounding like a corporeal person and not a corporate drone. Maybe my writing is less predictable, than the prediction machine's output. Even with my personality, such as it is, I'm not so sure I can consistently, reliably beat a chatbot at writing anything interesting.