by John Macdonald | Oct 1, 2023 | AI, The250
Just tried this in ChatGPT: “You are a life coach specializing in personal development. You have a middle-aged client who is bored with their work and a little depressed. Create a self-directed exercise to help your client explore possibilities, both with work... by John Macdonald | Sep 30, 2023 | The250
On the one hand, Key Performance Indicators are a natural and necessary method for organizations to measure themselves and their people. “Here are the things we care about. How did we do against those things?” But the problem is the cat and when he gets... by John Macdonald | Sep 29, 2023 | AI, The250
AI is only as smart as (all of) humanity, but not one tick more. It aggregates knowledge. Crunches numbers at lightspeed. Finds correlations that we missed. Yet it lacks original thought. Can’t philosophize. Can’t dream. It’s a tool, not a mentor. AI... by John Macdonald | Sep 28, 2023 | The250
Like John Mulaney said, “I always thought that quicksand was gonna be a much bigger problem than it turned out to be.” As a Gen-X’er, I grew up on Saturday morning cartoons, and in the cartoons, quicksand is a big problem. One of the biggest, in... by John Macdonald | Sep 27, 2023 | The250
I am one of those computer guys. When I worked as an intern at GE Astrospace in 1990, our team of about 20 people shared six or seven computers situated in the common area of the office. We had two black and white Mac’s (SE-30s), a color Mac (Macintosh II), and... by John Macdonald | Sep 26, 2023 | AI, The250
Humans have been competing with machines and systems for over a hundred years. The human creator can win if he asks himself the right question. We got machines and assembly lines pumping out millions of coffee mugs. We can go to Walmart and buy as many as we want in...