How do companies find AI partners?
Plus, detecting tipping points, a current map of AI interactions, and CrowdStrike
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/ One of our favorite thinkers around human-computer interaction is Matt Webb, and he’s honed his current beliefs from a series of high-level consulting engagements. Come for the expert assessment on the state of AI, leave with a trusty map to call upon. Learn more at Interconnected >
2/ This week’s big computing news wasn’t AI related. Instead, we assess the CrowdStrike crash that leveled Microsoft computers and everything they power. Take a look at how it happened. Learn more at GigaOm >
ps. Pair with guidance on how to fix your own Windows PC.
3/ We’re in the heart of AI summer — excitement abounds, but implementation remains elusive. How do we turn a transformative technology into its useful era? The key, as always, is still finding product-market fit. Learn more at Ben Evans’ Blog >
4/ Researchers coined the phrase tipping points to reflect the moment things change forever. What if we can spot those moments ahead of time? Hindsight is 20/20, but AI researchers think they know the key factors. Learn more at The Economist >
5/ The Olympics start next week, and with it, a new era of live (and tailored recap) TV coverage. How will AI and UX advances change our viewing? Learn more at WIRED >
ps. Pair with this on Olympic tech.
6/ Core questions on artificial intelligence – is it math, magic, or something else we don’t quite understand? A walk down memory lane, all the way back to John McCarthy’s clever phrase 70 years ago. Learn more at MIT Technology Review >
7/ Are we seeing a shift in AI data scraping? Researchers estimate that 5 percent of all data, and 25 percent of data from the highest-quality sources, has been restricted. What’s that mean for model training? Learn more at The New York Times >
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