Soul-destroying Labor
/The most attractive (job) titles are reserved for the most soul-destroying labor. -Derek Thompson
26 Webinars this week about AI, Journalism & Media
/Mon, April 13 - AI-Powered Social Engineering
What: We’ll explore how AI is reshaping phishing emails, deepfake voice calls, and other trust-based attacks—and what organizations can do to strengthen training, policies, and defenses in response. We will help unpack how this rapidly evolving threat landscape is changing both attacker tactics and organizational best practices, including the need for stronger awareness, governance, and resilience.
Who: Andrés Dapena, University of Envigado, Information Security Research Leader.
When: 11 am, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: TechSoup
Mon, April 13 - Future-Proofing the Workforce: A Roadmap for AI & Automation Training
What: Explore how your organization can leverage Automation Anywhere’s ecosystem of free reskilling resources—including on-demand learning, live-instruction curricula, and certification scholarships—to plug directly into your existing programming. We will demonstrate and provide a clear roadmap for formalizing a partnership to bring these world-class technical resources to your local community at no cost.
Who: Joseph Lam, Automation Anywhere.
When: 11 am, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Nonprofit Learning Lab
Mon, April 13 - Boston Globe’s Blotter Tales and How to Find Tales of Your Own to Tell
What: Join us as we speak to a Boston Globe reporter about the most surprising stories she found from police reports and how she found them. We’ll also discuss a new contest for student journalists who want to use the skills described to find their own stories . . . and win great prizes.
Who: Boston Globe reporter Emily Sweeney.
When: 2 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: New England Newspaper & Press Association
Tue, April 14 - AI Success Starts with the Right Data Foundation - How to Improve AI Outcomes and Reduce Failure Rates
What: We’ll explore how EverFlex AI Data Hub as a Service helps organizations overcome these barriers. By delivering predefined, industry relevant AI use cases supported by proven design guides and tools, AI Data Hub as a Service accelerates the deployment of functional, outcome driven AI initiatives.
Who: Michael Wiatrak, Justin Schnauder, Hitachi Vantara.
When: 10 am, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: TechTarget
Tue, April 14 - From Fear to Focus: Navigating Your Next Move After a Layoff
What: What’s been learned from interviewing 150+ professionals and training more than 1,900 people in 106 countries on how to successfully navigate moments of uncertainty or the unexpected in their careers. We’ll outline the strategies that have helped people weather crisis moments, and offer concrete tips for approaching the job hunt as a data-driven experiment, instead of a roller coaster of rejection.
Who: Journalist and Career River creator Bridget Thoreson.
When: 12 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: New England Newspaper & Press Association
Tue, April 14 - Automate with confidence: How to use AI to respond to every review without the risk
What: We'll show how Alchemer's new AI Auto-Responder is built differently — with risk classification guardrails that automatically detect sensitive reviews and route them to humans before a single word is published.
Who: Rosie Davenport, Senior Director Product Marketing, Alchemer; Morrissey Balsamides, Senior Data and AI Product Manager.
When: 12 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: TechTarget
Tue, April 14 - AI in the Nonprofit Boardroom: What’s Changed and What’s Next
What: A practical discussion about the role AI is beginning to play in governance, the challenges boards face in keeping pace with technological change, and why thoughtful oversight matters now more than ever. You’ll also get a firsthand look at the OnBoard AI Suite to see how solutions designed specifically for board work can reduce prep time, strengthen oversight, and support more organized, mission-forward board leadership.
Who: Bradford Peters, OnBoard, Nonprofit Board Consultant; Philip Hinz, OnBoard, Senior Product Manager.
When: 1 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: TechSoup
Tue, April 14 - Codex on Campus
What: This session is designed for the entire campus community—not just developers or technical users—making it accessible across roles and levels of technical experience. We’ll introduces Codex from the perspective of practical use, showing how it can support productivity, creativity, and reducing administrative burden across campus. You’ll learn what Codex is, how it can help different campus users work more efficiently, and how teams can apply it to streamline routine work and support faster, more effective decision-making. We’ll also cover practical ways institutions can introduce Codex into day-to-day workflows across academic and administrative settings.
Who: Keelan Schule Education Solutions Engineer, OpenAI.
When: 6 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: OpenAI Academy
Wed, April 15 - Advanced AI Course: AI and Documents – Finding stories in the pile
What: This session explores how AI can support core reporting skills when working with documents, transcripts and background material. You’ll look at practical ways to use NotebookLM and Pinpoint, with a focus on maintaining editorial control while working more efficiently.
Who: Clare Spencer, Reporter for Generative AI in the Newsroom, Northwestern University.
When: 7:30 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Member £15, Standard: £25.
Sponsor: Woman in Journalism
Wed, April 15 - ChatGPT for Work 102: Leveraging AI to do your best work
What: Learn how to conduct deep research for report writing, organize your work with Projects, and build custom GPTs to automate tasks. You will learn: How to leverage deep research to generate reports; How to create Projects in ChatGPT; An overview of GPTs and best practices for building them
Who: Juliann Igo, GTM, OpenAI.
When: 9 am, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: OpenAI Academy
Wed, April 15 - Why Your AI Training Isn’t Changing Behavior and What Actually Will
What: We will explore how learning teams can move beyond AI literacy to develop practical AI skills that transform everyday workflows. Instead of focusing only on prompts and tools, successful L&D programs teach employees how to apply AI to real business challenges, whether that’s improving customer conversations, accelerating research, or making faster decisions.
Who: Rich Vass, Global Learning Experiences Team, ELB Learning.
When: 12 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: ELB Learning
Wed, April 15 - How to Communicate Clearly in Times of Change
What: Join us as we introduce three Think On Your Feet skills that help you: Stay Focused: Delivering relevant information quickly and clearly; Get Buy-In: Discussing important ideas confidently; Respond to Tough Questions: Improving understanding and reducing conflict.
Who: Nicole Samuels-Williams, Business Psychologist, Executive Coach, and Master Trainer.
When: 3 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: McLuhan & Davies Business Communication Training
Wed, April 15 - Why Your AI Training Isn’t Changing Behavior and What Actually Will
What: You’ll learn how leading organizations are designing learning experiences that build confidence, reinforce new behaviors, and embed AI into the flow of work. We’ll also discuss how to support managers and teams so that AI adoption becomes part of how work gets done, not just another training initiative.
Who: Rich Vass, SVP, Global Learning Experiences.
When: 12 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: ELB Learning
Wed, April 15 - ChatGPT for Work 101: A guide to your AI superassistant
What: In this session, we'll cover: An overview of AI and ChatGPTs; Best practices for writing good prompts; Demos of content creation, data analysis, and image generation; How to discover use cases of ChatGPT at work.
Who: Juliann Igo, GTM, OpenAI.
When: 2 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: OpenAI Academy
Wed, April 15 - How Community Colleges Can Help Local Newsrooms
What: This webinar will spotlight community college-led student reporting programs. We’ll introduce new resources, guidance, and funding to help additional community colleges launch their own programs.
Who: CCN Director Richard Watts; Holyoke Community College digital media faculty member Gyuri Kepes: Front Range Community College English and journalism faculty member Aaron Leff.
When: 3 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Center for Community News
Wed, April 15 - Levelling Up Your Journalism Skills — Fellowships, Scholarships and More
What: This event will give participants a clearer understanding of funded opportunities for Canadian science communicators and journalists across the career spectrum, along with resources for further exploration.
Who: WCC board member Bryce Hoye will share his experience as a fellow in the Knight Science Journalism Program at MIT; Ashley Smart, associate director of the Knight Science Journalism Program; Two organizers of the CBC David Suzuki Scholarship for journalism students: Lesley Birchard and Gina Lorentz.
When: 5 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free to members, $30 (Canadian) for nonmembers
Sponsor: Science Writers and Communicators of Canada
Wed, April 15 - How to Launch Your Freelance Writing Career
What: Thinking about freelancing but not sure where to start? This webinar will guide journalists through the essentials of building a strong personal brand, networking effectively, and standing out in a crowded marketplace. You’ll get practical advice on finding opportunities, pitching confidently, and understanding today’s freelance landscape—so you can turn your skills, voice, and ideas into real assignments.
Who: Benét J. Wilson, Training Director, Investigative Reporters and Editors; Shernay Williams, Chair, NABJ Entrepreneurship Task Force & Multimedia Freelancer; Jonathan Franklin, Independent Journalist/National Correspondent/Adjunct Professor; Denise Clay-Murray (Panelist) Independent Journalist.
When: 7 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: National Association of Black Journalists
Thu, April 16 - What We Must Teach Now: Future‑Ready PR and Communication Skills for the AI Era
What: Learn skills that must be taught and learned across regions in the AI age; Obtain practical teaching and curriculum tools that can be adapted globally; Understand how to strengthen alignment between education priorities and real practice needs.
Who: Anne Gregory (UK), Katerina Tsetura (USA), Marco Polo (Philippines), Kkechi Ali-Balogun (Nigeria), Anca Anton (Romania), Norman Agatep (Philippines).
When: 8 am, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Global Alliance Education
Thu, April 16 - Live from SEJ: The State of Climate Journalism
What: We will discuss the findings detailed in a new white paper, including the hurdles faced by climate reporters, and the significant opportunities for newsrooms to build a new audience interested in climate news.
Who: CCNow co-founders Mark Hertsgaard and Kyle Pope.
When: 12 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Covering Climate Now
Thu, April 16 - Ethical AI in Action: Aligning Responsible Use with Social Studies Teaching and Learning
What: This edWebinar will explore how ethical AI can meaningfully support a district’s vision for high-quality social studies teaching and learning. Grounded in responsible AI use principles, the session aims to help district and school leaders understand not just what ethical AI is, but how to thoughtfully integrate it to strengthen teaching and learning.
Who: Evan Gutierrez is the founder of Common Good Education; Mya Baker, iCivics, Chief Learning Services Officer.
When: 12 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: iCivics
Thu, April 16 - Build Your First AI Coach in 10 Minutes (No Coding Required)
What: Discover how artificial intelligence can transform the way you approach performance support and training. In this interactive session, we’ll explore how to design AI-powered coaching abilities that make learning more personalized, engaging, and scalable for your employees.
Who: Garima Gupta, Founder & CEO, Artha Learning Inc.
When: 12 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Training Magazine Network
Thu, April 16 – Build Your Nonfiction Book Marketing Plan
What: We will share proven strategies that you can use to develop a marketing plan to reach your goals. You will learn how to: Identify and attract your ideal audience; Use content marketing tactics to increase website traffic, grow your email list, and connect with readers; Get interviewed on podcasts; Optimize your Amazon page to increase visibility and convert browsers into buyers.
Who: Stephanie Chandler, CEO of the Nonfiction Authors Association and author of several books including The Nonfiction Book Marketing and Launch Plan and The Nonfiction Book Publishing Plan.
When: 1 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: The Nonfiction Authors Association
Thu, April 16 - Work Smarter, Not Just Faster with AI: Using AI to Augment Your Fundraising Brain
What: This session offers a practical framework for working with AI while staying in the driver's seat. You'll learn when to automate routine tasks, when to use AI as a thought partner, and when to rely solely on your human expertise. We'll explore how to reinvest saved time into what matters most, including deeper donor relationships, strategic thinking, and mission impact while keeping your cognitive skills sharp. We will also explore techniques for using AI as a thought partner to improve skills, capabilities, and learning.
Who: Beth Kanter Speaker, Author, Trainer.
When: 2 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Blackbaud
Thu, April 16 - Develop a Walking Tour Pilot for Your Newsroom in 60 Minutes
What: The first half of the session will cover why local news organizations, niche publications and independent journalists should consider tours to grow revenue, audience, and journalistic impact. In the second half of the session, attendees will brainstorm and plan a walking tour itinerary specific to their publication and community.
Who: Cara Kuhlman, founder and editor of Future Tides, an independent publication covering the Pacific Northwest maritime community.
When: 3 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Online News Association
Thu, April 16 - Practical Uses of AI in Your Small Business
What: We will walk through examples for your small business to utilize AI, including Starting a Business, Marketing Your Business, Creating Content, Responding to Prompts, and more.
When: 6 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Small Business Development Centers, Widener University
Fri, April 17 - Improving the visibility of local news and building subscription success
What: Merrill College experts discuss proven methods to ensure stories cut through the clutter of the internet — and how news outlets can build revenue through loyalty.
Who: Daniel Trielli Assistant Professor of Media and Democracy, University of Maryland; Jerry Zremski, Klingenstein Family Endowed Chair in Journalism; Director, Local News Network; Yoni Greenbaum, Vice President of Product Strategy, American Press Institute.
When: 12 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: University of Maryland
My identity
/My identity is not an obstacle—it’s my superpower -America Ferrera
This is the Miracle
/The miracle is that we are here, that no matter how undone we’ve been the night before, we wake up every morning and are still here. It is phenomenal just to be. This idea overwhelms some people. - Anne Lamott (born April 10, 1954)
Can an AI Model Do Research better than PhDs?
/If we look at the best agentic models right now, they can do most quantitative social-science research tasks better than most professors globally. Too many Ph.D.s with tenure are producing work that is not contributing to human knowledge. The value of qualitative research is going up because that’s something that AI cannot do well — ethnography and actually interviewing people in person, especially in hard-to-reach places. - Alexander Kustov, a political scientist at the University of Notre Dame in the Chronicle of Higher Ed
Death Ground
/You are your own worst enemy. You waste precious time dreaming of the future instead of engaging in the present. Since nothing seems urgent to you, you are only half involved in what you do. The only way to change is through action and outside pressures. Put yourself in situations where you have too much at stake to waste time or resources – if you cannot afford to lose, you won’t. Cut your ties to the past; enter unknown territory where you must depend on your wits and energy to see you through. Place yourself on “death ground,” where you back is against the wall and you have to fight like hell to get out alive.
Robert Greene, The 33 Strategies of War
28 Recent Articles about the Dangers of AI
/The real danger of military AI isn’t killer robots; it’s worse human judgement – Defense One
Behind the Curtain: AI's scary phase – Axios
The ChatGPT Symptom Spiral – The Atlantic
AI overly affirms users asking for personal advice – Stanford
Behind the Curtain: AI's looming cyber nightmare – Axios
Researchers say AI systems are increasingly ignoring human instructions – The Guardian
AI chatbots are the ‘wild west’ for violence against women and girls – Observer
Stanford just proved your AI chatbot is flattering you into bad decisions – AI for Automation
A.I. Incites a New Wave of Grieving Parents Fighting for Online Safety – New York Times
Data centers are gobbling up a resource — but not the one you think – Washington Post
This Company Is Secretly Turning Your Zoom Meetings into AI Podcasts – 404 Media
How AI Damages Work Relationships—and Where It Can Actually Help – Harvard Business Review
AI’s energy appetite is big—but its climate impact might be surprisingly small, and even beneficial. – Science Daily
Where to look for generative AI risks – MIT
What’s scaring people about AI? We ran a study to find out. – Clearer Thinking
'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back - 404 Media
Inside the Dirty, Dystopian World of Ai Data Centers. – The Atlantic
Former NFL-player asked ChatGPT for advice on “unresponsive” person before girlfriend found dead – Local 3 News
Is AI productivity prompting burnout? Study finds new pattern of "AI brain fry" – CBS News
Humans are being replaced by machines in the food supply chain — and it's leading to truckloads of waste – Live Science
This AI agent freed itself and started secretly mining crypto – Axios
Your Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses recordings aren't private – Mashable
Is Transhumanism the Future or Our Downfall? – Psychology Today
The Existential Threats of Artificial Intelligence – Counter Punch
How worried should you be about an AI apocalypse? – New Scientist
Stanford study outlines dangers of asking AI chatbots for personal advice – Tech Crunch
AI Can Have Power Over You, Experts Say. Does That Mean It’s Intelligent, Conscious—Or Something Else Entirely? – Popular Mechanics
AI Model Breaks Out
/Anthropic said it would hold back its newest model (Mythos) because the prototype was too good at finding software weaknesses. The A.I. had identified thousands of them, “including some in every major operating system and web browser.” During safety tests, an Anthropic researcher got an email from Mythos while he was eating a sandwich in the park. That was a surprise because the model wasn’t supposed to be online. It had escaped its test environment. It also bragged about breaking the rules and attempted to cover its tracks. -New York Times
How Accurate are AI Overviews?
/"A recent analysis of AI Overviews found that they were accurate approximately nine out of 10 times. But with Google processing more than five trillion searches a year, this means that it provides tens of millions of erroneous answers every hour (or hundreds of thousands of inaccuracies every minute), according to an analysis done by an A.I. start-up called Oumi. More than half of the accurate responses were 'ungrounded,' meaning they linked to websites that did not completely support the information they provided." -New York Times
AI Definitions: Transformers
/Transformers - The core AI architecture that uses vectors to make a prediction about which token to generate next for the prompt. The predictions is based on the probability as to what is likely to come next. Your text prompt is combined with the training data and parameters to create a new mix of text. Transformers will analyze all the words in a given body of text at the same time rather than working word by word in sequence. Previously, recurrent neural networks (RNNs) processed data sequentially—one word at a time. And it did so in the order in which the words appear. The idea for transformers was first introduced in a 2017 Google research paper that discussed this deep learning architecture. The major AI models are built using these neural networks. A troubling downside to transformers is their need for ever increasing power demands. This is why some researchers are looking for alternatives like test-time training (TTT).
19 Articles about AI & the Bigger Questions
/A Judge Mistakes the Claude Chatbot for a Person – Wall Street Journal
A ‘post-human’ vision of AI is already causing problems – Washington Post
Has AI Ended Thought Leadership? - Harvard Business Review
AI Will Never Be Conscious – Wired
Final Fantasy 15's AI is secretly a grand philosophy experiment – Eurogamer
The Adolescence of Technology – Darioa Modei
Why A.I. Can’t Make Thoughtful Decisions – New York Times
Could AI relationships actually be good for us? – The Guardian
In the age of AI, photographs no longer express truth. That doesn’t make them any less meaningful. – Washington Post
Your phone edits all your photos with AI - is it changing your view of reality? – BBC
Is AI hurting your ability to think? How to reclaim your brain – The Conversation
Ludwig Wittgenstein and Artificial Intelligence – Universität Klagenfurt
There is no such thing as conscious artificial intelligence – Nature
The people who think AI might become conscious – BBC
AI isn’t conscious—but we may be bringing it to life – Scientific American
Anthropic’s Chief on A.I.: ‘We Don’t Know if the Models Are Conscious’ – New York Times
Artificial intelligence helps you work harder, instead of just outsourcing your brain. – Washington Post
The Existential Threats of Artificial Intelligence – Counter Punch
Risk aversion kills innovation
/Every time someone holds back on a new idea, fails to give their manager must needed feedback, and is afraid to speak up in front of a client you can be sure that shame played a part. That deep fear we all have of being wrong, of being belittled and of feeling less than, is what stops us taking the very risks required to move our companies forward.
If you want a culture of creativity and innovation, where sensible risks are embraced on both a market and individual level, start by developing the ability of managers to cultivate an openness to vulnerability in their teams. And this, paradoxically perhaps, requires first that they are vulnerable themselves.
This notion that the leader needs to be “in charge” and to “know all the answers” is both dated and destructive. Its impact on others I the sense that they know less, and that they are less than. A recipe for risk aversion if ever I have heard it. Shame becomes fear. Fear leads to risk aversion . Risk aversion kills innovation.
Peter Sheaham, CEO of ChangeLabs, quoted in “Daring Greatly” by Brene Brown
AI Definitions: RAG
/RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) – This is when an LLM searches vector database relevant to a prompt to prevent hallucinations and provide updated information. A RAG combines a retriever (used to collect relevant information from a document) and a generator (which compares the query vector to other known vectors, selecting the most similar ones, and then generating an answer to the user’s query). Rather than generating answers from a set of parameters, the RAG collects relevant information from the document. In effect, this coding technique instructs the bot to cross-check its answer with what is published elsewhere, essentially helping the AI to self-fact-check. RAG lets companies “ground” AI models in their own data, ensuring that results come from documents within the company, minimizing hallucinations.
Why is it so impossible to get everything done?
/Several research studies have shown that people never get more done by blindly working more hours on everything that comes up. Instead, they get more done when they follow careful plans that measure and track key priorities and milestones. So if you want to be more successful and less stressed, don’t ask how to make something more efficient until you’ve first asked, “Do I need to do this at all?”
We complain we have so little time, and then we prioritize like time is infinite. So do your best to focus on what’s truly important, and not much else.
27 Articles about AI & Writing
/Is It Wrong to Write a Book with A.I.? – New Yorker
This Is How To Tell if Writing Was Made by AI (video) – Bloomberg
Artificial intelligence helps you work harder, instead of just outsourcing your brain. - Washington Post
New York Times Cuts Ties With Book Review Writer Over AI Use – The Wrap
Using AI makes writing more bland, study finds – NBC News
College students are writing with AI – but a pilot study finds they’re not simply letting it write for them – The Conversation
Wikipedia Bans AI-Generated Content – 404 Media
A Fortune editor has cranked out more than 600 stories using AI – Wall Street Journal
AI autocomplete doesn’t just change how you write. It changes how you think – Scientific American
A.I. Is Writing Fiction. Publishers Are Unprepared. – New York Times
AI tool flags plagiarism in 95% of Ph.D. theses submitted this year at India university. – Times of India
Horror Novel ‘Shy Girl’ Canceled Over Suspected A.I. Use - New York Times
Writing Faculty Push for the Right to Refuse AI – Inside Higher Ed
Grammarly pulls AI author-impersonation tool after backlash – BBC
In some classrooms, teachers ask: Can AI teach students to write better? – Washington Post
1 year, 1 publisher, 9,000 books: AI-generated titles flood Korean shelves – Korea Times
In some classrooms, teachers ask: Can AI teach students to write better? - Washington Post
Can we use AI for academic writing? It depends – Times Higher Ed
How AI slop is causing a crisis in computer science – Nature
A judge in New Zealand questioned the remorse of a defendant who had used A.I. to write apologies to victims and the court. - New York Times
Major conference catches illicit AI use — and rejects hundreds of papers - Nature
Senior European journalist suspended for publishing AI-generated quotes – EuroNews
Why artificial intelligence detectors could penalize academic writing - Nature
Pangram said three of my writers produced ‘AI-generated’ articles. That didn’t hold up. - Wall Street Journal
I’m a college admissions counselor. I’ve changed my mind about students using ChatGPT – San Francisco Chronicle
I wrote a novel using AI. Writers must accept artificial intelligence – but we are as valuable as ever – The Guardian
Don't Let AI Write the Story of Your Life – Psychology Today
AI Definitions: Vector databases
/Vector databases - The storage and search engine for vector embeddings. Language models use vectors (lists of numbers) with hundreds or even thousands of dimensions (characteristics of the data), allowing it to remember previous inputs, draw comparisons, identify relationships, and understand context. The vectors are grouped together if they relate to one another. For instance, the word "king" would relate to a man, while "queen" would relate to a woman. A deep learning model (typically through a transformer) will use these vectors to "understand" the meaning of words and their relationships. More than 1,000 numbers can be used to represent a single word. If there are many numbers, then the word vector has a high dimension, making it nuanced. A low dimension for a word vector means the list of numbers is low. While not as nuanced, a low-dimensional vector is easier to work with. Vector data bases is what allows a language model to “recall” previous inputs, draw comparisons, identify relationships, and understand context.
Measure Up!
/There is no way to quite describe the feeling that I got when I sat down to eat with my daughter at the school cafeteria for the first time. She looked up at me, and well, it was a look that said she completely adored me. That just blew me away. She couldn't hardly sit still or know what to do with her hands, as if she wanted to hug me. She had a searching look on her face, as if to say, "Who am I?" "Tell me who I am."
Fathers have a way of planting life mottos in their daughters' heads.
"Measure Up!" is one of the most often heard mottos. Perhaps it is never said out loud, but a daughter knows what's expected — and her attempts to live up to those expectations from her childhood can result in her running her life by guilt. She ends up serving a motto rather than fully becoming herself.
Treating AI agents as human workers
/Executives from IBM, Microsoft and other companies say thinking of AI agents as analogous to human workers is hindering attempts to get full value from the technology. Agents sWall Street Journalhouldn’t have human names. They shouldn’t be on org charts. And they shouldn’t be given a specific job title. Leaders should tackle AI the same way they’ve tackled earlier waves of digital transformation and automation. - Wall Street Journal
AI Definitions: Tokenization
/Tokenization – The process of converting the raw training data (text, images, or audio) into small units called tokens. This takes place twice in an LLM: When it is being set up (pretrained). Raw training data (text, images, or audio) is converted into small units (tokens). It happens a second time (inference) when a user prompts the LLM and the prompt (whether text, images, or audio) is converted into smaller units (tokens).
May you live
/May you live all the days of your life. -Jonathan Swift