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Inside You There Are Three A.I.s

Jul 2, 2024 |

Generative A.I. can boost your productivity and expand your creativity, but it becomes much more usable and powerful when you customize it for your own needs. And that's very easy to do—no coding required!—with tools like OpenAI's "Create a GPT", Claude.ai's new...

Learn to think visually with ChatGPT

Jun 23, 2024 |

I admire AI artists who can think of the right prompt to illustrate a concept or story. But I'm not a visual thinker, so the hardest part of image creation is often thinking about how to represent an idea visually. For my newsletter this week, I wanted a header image...

Stop prompting. Start talking.

Jun 4, 2024 | ,

  Conversation is central to our working lives. It’s how we learn from one another, work through our own ideas, and perhaps most importantly, collaborate and co-create with others. Until a year or so ago, the creative and learning potential of conversation...

I’m scared sh**tless

Apr 23, 2024 |

  Confession: I’m scared shitless. Here’s what I’ve signed up for this Thursday afternoon: Sing out! This is your chance to be part of a very special TED Talk! Renowned Broadway director and TED speaker, Lear deBessonet and Broadway performer, Todd Almond will...

Take a peek backstage at TED2024

Apr 11, 2024 | ,

Take a peek backstage at #TED2024— thanks to an experience that may sound like your worst air-travel nightmare. You know, that nightmare where the person next to you on a long plane flight actually TALKS to you? That was me, a year ago, on a flight back from New York...