Turning quotes from my the final season of my favorite show into image prompts for my favorite ai tool —

Experiment #4 aka “I’m not an LLM” — I said I was going to launch a new experiment every weekday. And I swear to god, I can. But I’m realizing that maybe I shouldn’t. Here’s the (kind of embarrassing) deal: If I could stick my head inside this screen and become one with the machine, I’d probably do…

My first daily experiment takes our favorite Roy boi to Twitter For my first daily experiment, I wanted to stick to something I know well: making weird Twitter accounts. Someone I follow posted a tweet about Kendall Roy and I replied that “Kendall would THRIVE on Twitter.” He’s got the…

Experiment #2 is a lesson in making fun of your own failures — Remember the emotionally scarring scene in The Never-Ending Story with the horse? Some days you’re Atreyu, battling ever forward to save the Childlike Empress (and by extension, all of Fantasia) from the Nothing. And some days you’re the horse, a figurative Artax ready to sink into the sad because…

Experiment #3 is a living example of the saying “take your broken heart and turn it into art.” — I’ve challenged myself to do a new creative experiment every day, in the process exploring new tools and expanding my skills. Every creative has experienced a bad creative director, who knows what they don’t want but has no clue what they do, who gives vague platitudes instead of actionable feedback…

How the rapid pace of innovation in artificial intelligence is laying bare the cracks in our own humanity. — It’s a wild time to be a person — especially a person who works in the knowledge economy. We’ve been spared many of the hard winds that have blown through the economy over the last few decades. Comfortably ensconced in the 9.9%, we’ve blithely reaped the benefits of technological change…

A Brand Experience Masterclass Marketers have spent the last two years wringing their hands over Google’s impending phase-out of cookies. The rollercoaster of “will they / won’t they / when they” has spawned a thousand think pieces. I, for one, can’t wait for a cookie-less internet. Once companies lose the…

The 2022 theme for International Women’s Day is #BreakTheBias. With that in mind, I decided to do a little experiment to see what GPT-3 can show us about the gender bias that’s built into our language. — Let’s start with a quick overview of GPT-3, in case you don’t spend as much time as I do having conversations with a machine: Basically, it’s an AI trained on pretty much every word written online to generate conversational language that sounds remarkably human.

I was a junior in high school when my mother had her first heart attack. She was in her bed, moaning, crying that she couldn’t breathe. We were too poor to have a phone, so I ran barefoot to the neighbor’s house, 1/4 mile down the road. …