There are other classes in the academic galaxy that teach AI, maybe even some that instruct students in how to use the AI tools that are increasingly baked into CRMs, content-creation tools, e-commerce platforms, and even communication tools like Slack. But I know for sure where I go textbooks fear to tread.
Read MoreWithout quality content to balance the garbage, the odds are much greater that AI tools will reinforce lies and hate speech, will perpetuate stereotypes, and will generate content that is blander and blander while at the same time being less and less reliable.
Read MoreWhile it's swell that publishers and AI-tool owners are getting together to decide the fate of content on the internet, it seems like a lot of key questions aren’t being addressed, which means that the real creators are going to be left on the outside looking in. Again.
Read MoreBy adding AI to search Google has made search less reliable and less useful … and they stand poised to wreck years of diligent SEO efforts on the part of some really smart people.
Read MoreWhat do you do with a bad writer who’s itching to write more? You find ways to put them to work that don’t cause you more work.
Read MoreI'm 1,000 percent pro-editor. They’re the answers to some of our toughest creative problems.
Read MoreTest your knowledge of fine art with this quiz featuring AI-generated paintings of Green Bay Packers done in the style of the Old Masters.
Read MoreWhat happens when you have an artificial-intelligence program create images of Green Bay Packers in the style of the Old Masters? Utter wackiness.
Read MoreWe too conveniently forget that every right we’re granted has a concomitant responsibility, like a weight and a counterweight.
Read MoreTextbooks, instructors at other schools, and students all seem to have some really cockeyed ideas about marketing research … or maybe I do.
Read MoreMomma Gump was right: Stupid is as stupid does.
Read MoreTwo industries, two tales of devastation … and two distinctly different paths for recovery.
Read MoreThere are important marketing lessons to be found in the trading-card bubble. Let’s see what you can learn (or relearn) from the bubble, and how it can help you market more effectively.
Read MoreAmerica has forgotten the basic lessons of its past.
Read MoreHow can one company have a great mission statement and business success, while another company is doomed to wander in the wilderness?
Read MoreFacebook is the Draco Malfoy of social-media platforms – the smarmy, too-smart jerk totally deserving of a paste upside the snoot.
Read MoreI say that starting right now we repossess the term “all lives matter” and use it as a basis for a manifesto that lays out a commitment to all citizens, not just Old White Guys or other people of privilege.
Read MoreWe have been asked to approximate to the smallest degree the sacrifices made by the children of the Depression living out World War II on the home front. And we couldn’t do it for a month.
Read MoreThese are not easy times. There are no easy answers – for you or I or thousands like us. All I have are a few recommendations that may or may not work.
Read MoreThe neural net did such a great job with baseball nicknames that I turned it loose on baseball stadiums.
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