Feb 11, 2024Why Generative AI Fails to Recommend the Right ArchitectureWhen popularity overrides architectural fitness — In my prior article, I discussed how Generative AI (GenAI) can generate the first draft of a GenAI strategy and roadmap. In this article, I will show the limits of this approach and how GenAI can create inappropriate suggestions. Let’s take a sample prompt: What are the leading technologies that…Generative Ai3 min readGenerative Ai3 min read
Feb 10, 2024Using Generative AI to Create a Generative AI StrategyGenAI consulting and teaching organizations to fish — This article describes how you can use generative AI tools such as ChatGPT to help you build a generative AI strategy customized to your organization’s needs. This process is instructive not only to see how vulnerable your organization is but it can give you insights into how to lead change…Genai11 min readGenai11 min read
Jan 20, 2024Building Better AI AssistantsUsing MicroSims to Build User-friendly and Educational Tools — I have been using GPT-4 to build MicroSims for Education for several months now. I want to share a fun experience I had recently building an LED resistor calculator. The key finding is that using generative AI can turn simple math formula calculations into small interactive training applications with just…Microsim7 min readMicrosim7 min read
Nov 22, 2023GenAI is Hyper-Personalizing EducationGenerative AI allows teachers to generate customized lesson plans and MicroSims for every student quickly. — Last week, I built my first customized generative AI application (GPTs) for generating MicroSims for Education using the new OpenAI GPTs tool. This was done with exactly zero lines of code. Although the application is far from perfect, it has already allowed me to improve my productivity 10x at building…AI10 min readAI10 min read
Nov 4, 2023Micro-Simulations for EducationAn 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…Generativeai5 min readGenerativeai5 min read
Oct 19, 2023Asking AI About Lowering Healthcare Costs in the USHow 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…AI6 min readAI6 min read
Oct 14, 2023The Jellyfish and the FlatwormA 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. …AI9 min readAI9 min read
May 7, 2023The Generative Turn for Tech StrategyHow 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…ChatGPT16 min readChatGPT16 min read
Published inBetter Programming·Apr 16, 2023Our 2023 STEM Robot UpdateNow 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…STEM7 min readSTEM7 min read
Feb 11, 2023RL Widens the ChatGPT MoatReinforcement 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…ChatGPT6 min readChatGPT6 min read