What is Moonshot Thinking and How Can it Transform Your Business?

Beautiful moon image to inspire moonshot thinking

Do you ever incorporate moonshot thinking into your planning? It’s easy enough to gather the gist of the idea: a moonshot is a long shot—something difficult to achieve—and thinking about it is the first step toward reaching it. But this is also an intentional strategy that businesses can use to think outside the box and…

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How Enterprises Can Use GPT Technology to Drive Their Business Forward

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It’s becoming ever clearer that technologies like ChatGPT, one of several new artificial intelligence systems which appears to wield advanced proficiency in using natural language, will open up a plethora of new opportunities for individuals, organizations, and society. It is easy, however, to be stunned by the seemingly infinite number of possibilities that this technology…

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ChatGPT Gets Chatty!

Image generated by DALL-2: portrayal of ChatGPT as a smiling clay robot

This month I’ve done a series on OpenAI’s generative text model, ChatGPT—simple use cases to try out, its current limitations and problems, and how it might change the ways we think, learn and operate. Now it’s time to let Chatty (my nickname for the übersyllabic chatbot) speak for itself. To demonstrate the kinds of responses…

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ASRmageddon: What Happened and How We Responded

Image of sitting at the computer dealing with ASRmageddon

On January 13th, Microsoft deployed a new definitions update for Microsoft Defender. This caused an issue for some users, as Defender began to flag and delete shortcuts in the “C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs” folder on devices with the Attack Surface Reduction (ASR) rule “Block Win32 API calls from Office macro” set to Block. The widespread nature of this…

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A Step in the Evolution of Human-Machine Relationships

Spiraling staircase suggests the evolution of human-machine relationships.

The essay is dead. Programming is dead. Google is dead. Have you heard any of these statements (or perhaps more along those lines?) in regard to the effects of powerful generative AI models like ChatGPT? Before we gather at the cemetery, let’s consider a quote by Florida Scott-Maxwell: “Every seed destroys its container, or else…

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The Problem(s) with ChatGPT

Image of many open books symbolizes both the potential and the problem(s) with ChatGPT.

ChatGPT has quickly become a big buzzword, and by now many of us have given the generative AI model a try. We’ve been amazed at how eloquently it can write. We’ve marveled at that cursor laying out an answer in less time than it took us to formulate the question. We’ve brainstormed ways it can…

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ChatGPT Use Cases You Haven’t Thought of

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When we published a blog about GPT-3 last year, we thought it would be fun to have the generative AI model itself write parts of the article. With the release of the new GPT3.5 update’s ChatGPT at the end of November, there’s been an explosion of attention on AI-generated text, with many authors bringing it…

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2022 Breakthroughs and What They’ll Mean for 2023

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We’ve had a lot of big innovations and discoveries this year, and some of them are pretty mind-boggling. The ways they’ll impact our future will be intriguing, amazing—and sometimes scary—to see. One thing is for sure: there’s huge potential in advancements that have recently been made. With the right path-forging and responsible use, these could…

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What Will Tomorrow’s IT Workers Look Like?

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Technology is evolving rapidly, and so is the field of IT. Given the last couple years of pandemic upheaval, today’s slippery job market, and big advancements in AI, workplaces are changing. IT workers are perhaps the most ready and eager group to meet this change, tending to be forward-thinking and adoptive of new innovations and…

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5 Innovative Technologies that are Changing Healthcare

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In 1953, my grandmother gave birth to twins in the backseat of her car. She lived far away from the hospital and barely made it there in time to deliver the first one in the parking lot. Everyone was in for a surprise after that, because in those days ultrasounds hadn’t even been invented and…

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