AI Top-of-Mind for Nov 27
A lot to catch up on over the Thanksgiving holiday. First off, Reuters ran an article concerning the basis of the rift between Altman and the OpenAI board, referencing a new model internally named Q*, probably aligned to the upcoming GPT-5. I’m sure there will be follow-up on this. In parallel, the NY Times also published a good rundown of the conflict, ‘The Unsettling Lesson of the OpenAI Mess,’ and one paragraph was both insightful and chilling:
I don’t know whether the board was right to fire Altman. It certainly has not made a public case that would justify the decision. But the nonprofit board was at the center of OpenAI’s structure for a reason. It was supposed to be able to push the off button. But there is no off button.
And finally, from the NY Times ‘DealBook,’ a foreshadowing of potential future conflicts surrounding corporate AI governance.
The combination of ChatGPT image uploads and then DALL-E3 creation to turn existing photos into something entirely new. I tried this myself with a photo of my dog Niko, and what it came up with was pretty cool. Then changed the prompts to add a bit of anger, as well as creation of a crossbreed with Percy, my King Charles. Try it for yourself!
Also on the prompt front, a set of instructions from ‘GenerativeAI’ to make ChatGPT even more responsive, including how to create an ‘expert’ dialog.
Great insight from HBR on uncovering competitive insight via Generative AI. Lessons outlined in the article:
· Equip your competitive intelligence experts with the AI tools necessary to reveal relevant strategic information from competitors’ public documents.
· Set up an interdisciplinary team that uses generative AI to unfold the full potential of your company’s functions and to break the silo-driven generation of knowledge.
· Set up an AI communication team that understands the AI communication codes of competitors and financial experts, to communicate in a way that confounds competitors and captivates financial experts.
· Foster initiatives to use your company’s own AI to audit any documents before they are made publicly available to ensure that the external AI systems trained on them don’t obtain private information from them, but at the same time make it easy for these systems to understand the messages that the C-suite wants to convey.
· Champion the move to AI–leadership interaction by setting up AI capabilities that allow a company to surface insights on what the competition might do next, helping create competitive advantage.
· Benefit from the high quality, low barriers to entry, and low investment costs of open code generative AI to launch testing initiatives across your company and identify the quick wins in the unpacking of strategic information.
Lastly, on the completely random front, the SJ Mercury reporting on the use of GPT for generating holiday gift ideas. I always thought that asking our kids for this was more effective.
That’s all for today!
