Shelly Palmer has been named LinkedIn’s “Top Voice in Technology,” and writes a popular daily business blog.
For your weekend reading pleasure, I offer a synopsis of interesting articles about AI you may have missed this week. As always, your thoughts and comments are both welcome and encouraged. -s
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This Week's Most Interesting Stories
Mastering the art of prompt engineering (aka prompt crafting) is touted as the new "must learn" business skill. It is. But just because it has a fancy, technical sounding name does not mean it is complicated or hard to understand. Here's a very short primer, guaranteed to improve the output you get from ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini, or most any generative AI platform. You are only minutes away from unlocking your prompt engineering superpowers. Let's go!
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In what may be the best use of AI voice cloning yet devised, O2, the UK’s largest mobile network operator, has introduced "Daisy," a generative AI tech stack designed to engage phone scammers in endless, realistic conversations with synthetic grannies. I just love this.
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Google has introduced a new AI tool, "Learn About," aimed at transforming education through interactive and visually enhanced responses. Learn About distinguishes itself from existing chatbots like Gemini and ChatGPT by providing textbook-style educational content designed to enhance learning experiences.
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There's been a lot of chatter about the "end of LLMs" or "LLMs starting to fail." Those are only headlines – clickbait, really. If you dig a bit deeper, you'll read that there are several schools of thought regarding how to efficiently scale the foundational models.
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OpenAI is set to launch an autonomous AI agent, code-named "Operator," early next year. According to Bloomberg, the initial release will serve as a research preview and developer tool and is expected to be released in January. This is a trend; Anthropic recently launched a similar feature called "computer use," and Google is rumored to have its own AI agent scheduled for release in December.
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Perplexity.ai is planning to introduce advertising into its interface. In a post titled Why We’re Experimenting with Advertising, Perplexity outlined its approach: integrating sponsored questions crafted in collaboration with advertisers. While the questions will be labeled as sponsored, Perplexity says the answers will not be influenced by the advertiser. Instead, they will surface the paid advertisement next to the answer. The company's blog post did not show an example of the entire experience.
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ABOUT SHELLY PALMER
Shelly Palmer is the Professor of Advanced Media in Residence at Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and CEO of The Palmer Group, a consulting practice that helps Fortune 500 companies with technology, media and marketing. Named LinkedIn’s “Top Voice in Technology,” he covers tech and business for Good Day New York, is a regular commentator on CNN and writes a popular daily business blog. He's a bestselling author, and the creator of the popular, free online course, Generative AI for Execs. Follow @shellypalmer or visit shellypalmer.com.
