Is the future of writing multi-@?
With AI implementation, audio processing boosts, and the Singularity, revisited.
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.
Programming note — Machine Learnings will be back on July 21.
What we're reading.
1/ The confusion on how to implement AI to solve…basically anything at organizational scale is high. Here’s HBR with a nice primer on where to focus your efforts inside your company. Relevant to the note above. Learn more at Harvard Business Review >
2/ What if we sit machines in a room and have them listen to us work through problems? A team at Stanford has done just that, and the results could change the way we train robots — with audio signals. Learn more at MIT Technology Review >
3/ Bionic legs and brain waves. Mind control is here. Learn more at The Economist >
4/ What happens when a major AI service provider is caught in the act? That’s what’s happening with AWS’s investigation of Perplexity illegally scraping sites. It’s only a matter of time until we hear about more cases like this. Learn more at WIRED >
5/ Ray Kurzweil is famous for his claims of the coming AI-human singularity. As he takes a look back at his 2005 book, is he still in? Learn more at The New York Times >
6/ What does the future of writing look like? A lovely walk down memory lane with pointers towards an AI augmented future. We’re very interested in this. Learn more at On my Om >
7/ AI agents are going to impress themselves upon us before we know it, and we have no precedent for managing this — strategically, emotionally, or legally. What will it feel like when your agent is booking my agent for coffee? What about when my agent runs amok? Learn more at The Atlantic >
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