Describing AI Agents as digital workers who are members of your digital workforce is great marketing. It is also dehumanizing. Analogy is a powerful tool to explain innovation. Referring to something we already know and understand makes it easier to conceptualize novel ideas. There are certainly similarities between tasks currently done by human workers and…
Statistics make great hooks to draw in an audience. LinkedIn posters know this. Though they don’t seem to be too concerned about supporting those statistics with sources. Whenever I see strong claims backed by stats with no source data, I immediately become skeptical of its validity. Here are two recent examples that stood out: “80%…
I grew up a Philadelphia sports fan. While I wasn’t a huge basketball fan, I remember Allen Iversen (the original AI) as a dynamic and exciting player to watch. I was naive back then. I took the media report of Iversons infamous “Practice?!!” press conference at face value. There really was only one version of…
Me: “what are some good books to read for black history month?” GenAI starts listing some books like it normally would, then…the response got erased and I was left with. GenAI: “Hmm…it looks like I can’t chat about this. Let’s try a different topic.” This was weird and disturbing. I had to double-check what I…