A gift for strategy consultants
Plus, sourcing problems (+ solutions), national security, and video game learning.
We’re back with another edition of Machine Learnings, brought to you by the folks at Heyday.
Heyday is an AI copilot that transforms your documents, notes, and conversations into quotes, shareable content, and a queryable database.
Over the past year at Heyday, we’ve watched companies struggle to leverage the power of LLMs.
Recently, we’ve seen consulting firms spending months cobbling together prompt libraries and experimenting with every model they could find from OpenAI and others.
What ends up happening is consultants don’t know where to start, they upload sensitive documents to ChatGPT, and they waste time without delivering differentiated value to their clients.
If you work in strategy consulting, or have a friend who does, I would love to chat with you about the use cases you’ve seen emerging within your firm and at your clients’ companies.
If you’re up for a chat please grab a time here or share my scheduling link with a friend who would: https://calendly.com/sam-debrule/30min.
What we're reading.
1/ If you’ve used code generators, you know they’re both fantastic and error-prone in the slightest of ways. But what if we use LLMs to critique the work that LLMs create? That’s CriticGPT, the latest from OpenAI. Learn more at OpenAI >
2/ Generative AI has a sourcing problem. As in, the sources cited in generative work are often made up. With OpenAI’s licensing packages in place with major media outlets, what’s that mean for our news? Learn more at The Atlantic >
Quick plug for Heyday — we do not have a sourcing problem! You only generate new content from your sources. This is the way.
3/ [Listen] Carl Shulman’s been talking AI risk and national security in the days leading up to and post-AGI. The big takeaway — scale. How deep might this change go? Learn more at 80,000 Hours >
4/ Our AI tools thus far are limited to elementary UX, mostly chat interfaces. There’s an excellent point at the heart of this argument — intelligence is about focusing on what matters to you. Learn more at Medium >
5/ Stat time: an estimated 10% of research is being co-authored by AI. Do we have a plagiarism problem, or is this just a sign of the coming wave of human augmentation? Learn more at The Economist >
6/ Video games are an eye into the human soul. At least that’s what researchers hypothesize. A look at a handful of AI generated video games, and what they might mean for how we deal with love, loss, and addiction. Learn more at MIT Technology Review >
7/ We’re watching the Euros nonstop @HeydayHQ, and if you’ve been following along, the stadium tech has been…amazing. Learn more at Fast Company >
Heyday is your AI-powered thought partner. Modern consultants, coaches, and professionals rely on Heyday to generate meeting notes, extract insights from research, and draft content that draws from past reading and conversations.