David Boyle
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Love helping people make evidence-based decisions. Audience Strategies. Author of https://t.co/RdgZNxPLOm. Ex BBC, EMI Music, Harrods, MasterClass, …
Joined March 2008
4:19 of me trying to persuade sceptics to embrace AI. And offering to help anyone that’s struggling. What did I miss?. Thanks @MarketScale 🙏
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RT @softlxnar: Maybe a hot take but cheaters can't be trusted not only romantically but as friends/business partners too. If they can be th….
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ChatGPT’s Agent can now make PowerPoint slides. But …. It uses a convoluted JavaScript-based process with the pptxgen library:.The Process:.1Script Generation: Wrote/modified a Node.js script (answer.js) using the pptxgen library.2Template Reference: Used slides_template.js as a.
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I'm also noticing an unfortunate pattern whereby people who are given advanced access to OpenAI features write massively overwhelmingly positive reviews. There are rare exceptions to this case.
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I really hate to say it but this failed at the three different tasks I gave it. I had high hopes. I’ll not use it again. A nice glimpse at the future. But normally useful. Yet.
ChatGPT Agent: our first AI with access to a text browser, a visual browser, and a terminal. Rolling out in ChatGPT Pro, Plus, and Team today.
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“Google Search now has the agentic capability to call local businesses using AI to check on prices & availability, saving you the hassle of tracking down information yourself.” - woah!!!.
4/5 Search now has the agentic capability to call local businesses using AI to check on prices & availability, saving you the hassle of tracking down information yourself. This is rolling out in the U.S., with increased access for AI Pro & AI Ultra subscribers. Makes it much
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An AI just saved me an hour of hassle chasing down a lost parcel. It spoke to three different people across three different companies to get to a resolution. Thanks @PineAiCallAgent
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This is … pretty bad.
I replicated this result, that Grok focuses nearly entirely on finding out what Elon thinks in order to align with that, on a fresh Grok 4 chat with no custom instructions.
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“Electric dynamos were "everywhere but in the productivity statistics" for nearly 40 years after Edison's first central generating station … What eventually allowed gains to be realized was redesigning the entire layout of factories around the logic of production lines [plus].
After we invented the dynamo, it took us 40 years to electrify factories. In the process, we had to redesign the entire factory layout — electrifying existing factories didn't cut it. Software engineering will likewise need to undergo drastic changes to truly benefit from AI.
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I love this theory ….
@fchollet Sounds reasonable. And I think there's another effect at play: we humans are wired to conserve energy and avoid work where possible. So when we adopt a new labour-saving device, we adjust our own effort to more-or-less reach the same results as before, only with less effort.
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RT @colin_fraser: @StellaOdds This would at least implicitly require some concept of “hate speech” which I’m not sure xAI have ever express….
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Here’s the new credits page for Teams and Enterprise customers. Each credit costs $0.04.
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A character heavily reliant on the advice of an AI, but who passionately believes humans shouldn’t be taken out of the decision-making loop. Sounds familiar! Great book.
Whoo-hoo, THE SYSTEM is out now! Here's its origin story. The world you live in is just a sugar-coated topping. There is another world beneath it. The real world. —Blade. Before going on to make a living as a novelist, I spent three years in a covert position in the CIA. At
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If you’re a leader struggling to see the benefits of AI in your org, not hiring is a great forcing function, though ….
Based on both the best available survey data from a few months ago, and the rate of internal AI adoption I am seeing at many companies, I think it is pretty unlikely that AI is having a big impact on employment in a real way, at least not yet.
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Also: not sitting with problems → rapid output → rapid iteration → rapid learning. Plus you develop muscle memory for using the tools → tackle different problems, more problems, wider problems. Ironically, you might become better even though that wasn’t the goal 😹.
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If you’re optimising for personal growth, AI can feel like cheating. If you’re optimising for outcomes, it’s just another tool. Anxiety comes from conflating the two, though!.
Something I'm worried about with AI is that it is the final boss of what @andy_matuschak calls "displacement behaviors, ways of not sitting with the problem.". I see it in my own writing process. If I'm stuck, I'll just go over to ChatGPT or Claude and ask about something instead
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Read more about how we use Claude in our case study with Anthropic here: .
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