An interview with Valerie Lockhart of Code Savvy — One day, during meditation, an idea came to Val Lockhart. Could we use generative AI to generate small simulations that could be quickly customized to the needs of a classroom? Would GPT-4 know enough about the powerful animation library Processing (p5.js) to develop a working animation? It turns out Val’s…

How AI can help with Strategic Planning — One of my favorite demos is to show people how generative AI can help analyze data, find anomalies in data, explain why these anomalies exist, look for root causes, and then suggest a strategy. Here is a transcript of a session I did with ChatGPT in August when their “Code…

A Story About AI Strategy — Many executives are pondering difficult decisions about making large investments in AI. For many of them, their lack of a technical background makes it difficult for them to visualize the impact of AI on their customers, their products, and their employees. To help executives make the right strategic decisions, we…

How Generative AI Has Triggered a Paradigm Shift — Disclaimer: all ideas are my own and may not reflect my employer's or my affiliated organizations' views. In this blog, I argue that generative AI has triggered a paradigm shift in computing. I call the paradigm shift “The Generative Turn.” I will review past paradigm shifts in computing and explain…

Now with custom faces and emotions! — Today marks the last day of the annual National Robotics Week. I was busy working on my new ChatGPT for Teachers material which I presented at the MNCodes Summit yesterday. Thanks to everyone at Code Savvy for organizing this event. We had over 80 people in our session, dozens of…

Reinforcement Learning creates an effective defensive strategy for OpenAI and Microsoft. — In this blog, I will review the process of using Reinforcement Learning (RL) to create and improve a large-language model such as ChatGPT. I will then show how OpenAI and Microsoft can use RL to prevent competitors from competing against them in the generative AI market. I will then suggest…

Personalized Learning Agents are Just Years Away — In this blog, I will synthesize concepts from my past blog on Knowledge Spaces and my recent blog on ChatGPT and Knowledge Strategy to build a roadmap for personalized knowledge agents that will quickly guide people to their learning objectives and let them have fun getting there. Disclaimer: These opinions…

Building low-cost cognitive assistants — ChatGPT is catching the world by storm! It is everywhere. My friends are constantly sending me examples of the fantastic and unexpected things that ChatGPT has done. ChatGPT reached over a million users in just five days. I am not surprised at how good ChatGPT has become. But I am…

Granting the proper access to knowledge to the right roles — This is the fourth blog in a series of blogs on integrating Personal Knowledge Graphs (PKGs) in large organizations. Integrated PKGs (IPKGs) are concerned with how siloed PKGs can be merged with shared knowledge graphs. Prior blogs focused on PKG enterprise integration concepts and the steps needed to justify large…