Summary: The article explores the potential impact of personalized AI agents on publishers and platforms like LinkedIn, Google, and Facebook. It questions whether AI will make platforms redundant as AI agents can provide tailored content and services directly. The author suggests that AI agents may undermine the need for platforms, as they can deliver content,…
Summary: Gall’s Law, planned cities like Brasilia, and the constructed language Esperanto all have one thing in common: they all show that experts can’t plan certain things. Rather, they must evolve organically through real-life experience. A radically user-centric approach to website design might be an effective counter to the fear that AI might replace content-based…
Summary: A Swedish daily experimented with AI-generated article summaries, showing increased reader engagement. The summaries, generated via an API connected to ChatGPT, led to longer time spent on pages. Human supervision corrected accuracy problems. The strategy aims to attract young readers, sparking debate on prioritizing older, more lucrative demographics. If publishers don’t provide a summary…
Think for a moment about the trajectory of media consumption. For example, compare what you did yesterday to what you did five, ten, or twenty years ago. Twenty years ago, you might have read a morning newspaper on your way to work, and then you were mostly insulated from news (as you did your job)…
Zain Kahn’s “Superhuman” email says workers want to use ChatGPT, but bosses aren’t so keen. Why? Don’t they want people to be more productive? Of course they do, but there are some legit dangers in using ChatGPT. Which sent me on a bit of a search. What can go wrong? Let’s say you’re a programmer…
As the AI wave threatens to reshape industries and disrupt the publishing business, publishers can gain a competitive edge by training their own large language model (LLM) with a distinctive voice and point of view. This article explains why this is a crucial strategic choice to make right now, explores the merits of this strategy,…
A few episodes back I applied the Gartner Hype Cycle to AI. (I’ll provide a link below to that article.) I thought we were still climbing towards the peak of expectations, but there are signs we might already be heading towards the trough of disillusionment. At least with large language models. In fact, I might…
Yesterday I saw a post on LinkedIn from Jay Schwedelson with an interesting ChatGPT prompt, as follows. Repurpose the Newsletter below into a: Top 10 Checklist 7 Pitfalls to Avoid List Quick Start Guide with 8 Bulleted Ideas Linkedin Post with Less than 100 Words Twitter Post with Less than 280 Characters Blog post with…
(See the video version at the bottom of this post.) Today marks the 50th episode of my “Something I Learned Yesterday” podcast, so … I guess I’ve learned 50 things. And if you’ve been coming along for the ride, so have you. So congrats. Bo Sacks distributed an article by Matt Turner titled “A top…
Last week Bo Sacks distributed an article with the compelling headline, “Barry Adams on why AI will not kill SEO.” That piqued my curiosity because I have said that AI threatens to disrupt Google’s business. Once people can simply get an answer, rather than getting a list of homework to do, they won’t be following…
Summary: AI that can answer questions is making lists of search results seem quaint. The nature of search is about to change radically, but Google has to protect its ad business. Competitors don’t have that burden. It sounds ridiculous to say that Google might be displaced. Google has been the 800-pound gorilla for a long…
On the “People vs Algorithms” podcast, Brian Morrissey recently mentioned that we should view the reaction to AI in the context of the Gartner Hype Cycle – which was new to me. It’s a graphical representation of the phases of adoption of and reaction to new technologies. Phase 1 is the Technology Trigger. This is…
Summary: Six ideas for incorporating AI-powered writing into content generation workflows using ChatGPT. They are (1) get new ideas, (2) get keyword suggestions, (3) create a first draft, (4) check word choices, (5) summarize or expand content, and (6) integrate ChatGPT into a content management system. There was some conversation at the Renewd Summit earlier…
We have another “this changes everything” technology to deal with. At some point people will get over that, but it hasn’t happened yet. The latest thing is the Apple Vision Pro. I haven’t used it. My comments are based on what I’ve been able to see online. The new device is like a virtual reality…
I’m assuming you’ve used ChatGPT. If so, you’ve probably run into its very annoying super ego. For example, you’re doing some research on nuclear power and it hectors you with grade school morality about the dangers of this and that. It’s quite annoying. But there’s a value in that. It shows it’s possible to layer…