In today’s episode, discover the gold mine of generative AI use cases: templates. You’ll learn how repetitive, templated tasks, particularly in operations departments, offer the most significant opportunities for AI implementation. Additionally, you’ll gain insights on leveraging generative AI to automate these tasks, saving time, reducing costs, and improving accuracy.
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Christopher Penn: In today’s episode, let’s talk about the gold mine for generative AI use cases.
Where is that gold mine? How do we know where generative AI is going to make a huge difference right away? The gold is where the templates are.
Back in 2015—2016, I used to say this in my AI keynotes back in the days when we were doing AI talks that had no generative element in them—as classical AI.
I used to say, “If you do it with a template today, a machine does it without you tomorrow.” This is now more true than ever.
Generative AI allows us to handle unstructured, templated tasks with ease, like “summarize this meeting,” “write this email,” “make a blog post”—unstructured tasks, but highly repetitive.
And there’s a template: “Hey, here’s a template for a blog post.
Here’s the template for the staff meeting notes.”
So when someone asks where you find the opportunities for generative AI use cases, my answer is simple: wherever the most templates are in your organization.
For most companies—most marketing departments—that’s in marketing operations.
You have a template for a client report, you have a template for an RFP response, you have a template for a press release, you have a template for an expense report.
And chances are, just reading the names of those templates, at least one of them gave you a visceral response.
Oh, expense reports, customer service tickets, annual reviews.
This is something that Katie Robbert and I talk about a lot: the use cases for generative AI vastly exceed “write me a blog post.” That’s like taking a Harrier to the grocery store—yes, it can do that, but it’s a gross underuse of its capabilities.
Generative AI is capable of incredible tasks.
And the easiest ones to figure out are where things are templated and things make you go “ugh,” right? If it’s a template today, you should convert it for use with generative AI today so that you’re the one operating the machinery tomorrow, that you are the one who is getting that work done still.
But you do it with a machine, and you do it faster, you do it better, you do it cheaper.
Otherwise, your organization will at some point do that task with or without you because the efficiencies are too good to ignore.
Any rational organization is going to look at the efficiencies of generative AI and say, “We need to get on board.”
Generative AI’s most powerful use cases for saving time and saving money are going to be in operations—marketing operations, financial operations, operations in general.
Why? Because unlike that blog post that you’re trying to write with ChatGPT, operation stuff is largely internal.
There are far fewer issues with permissions and copyright and contracts and work for hire, etc.
No one is critiquing the artfulness of your expense report.
Frankly, there should be no creativity in an expense report.
No one cares how original your prose is on your monthly activity summary.
No one is going to challenge the copyright on a customer service call summary or notes in your CRM.
And the time savings of turning these templates into generative AI actions are going to be massive.
You know this already, just by your reaction to the names of these templates.
Very few people are excited to complete an expense report.
Very few people are excited to write up a call summary.
Most people would be okay handing that off to an assistant.
They would cheer handing that off to a machine, which means it’s going to get done faster.
It’s going to get done more correctly and more thoroughly, which for anything in operations, that is a huge win.
So wherever the templates are in your organization today, that’s where your biggest wins in generative AI are going to be today and tomorrow.
Get started.
Find those opportunities.
Find those templates and start automating them right now.
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In today’s episode, you’ll explore the concept of ordered effects and its significance in understanding the ripple effects of actions and decisions. You’ll discover how generative AI tools like ChatGPT and Google Gemini can assist in analyzing potential consequences beyond the immediate first-order effects. Additionally, you’ll gain valuable insights on applying this concept to real-world scenarios like climate change and homelessness, revealing the interconnectedness of systems and the hidden complexities of seemingly simple problems.
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Christopher Penn: In today’s episode, let’s talk a little bit about ordered effects.
What is that? What does that mean? Ordered effects are a way of thinking about the impact of something over time; it’s like throwing a stone in a pond and watching the ripples spread out.
You may do something that may have an effect, but that effect has an effect, that effect has an effect, etc.
For example, suppose generative AI really takes off, and companies start employing fewer people.
What are some of the first-order effects? Fewer people employed, right? A second-order effect might be that the commercial real estate market crashes.
Why is this? Fewer employees means companies don’t need as much square footage, which means companies are going to pay less for commercial real estate, which means that the commercial real estate market kind of crashes.
This is a second-order effect of generative AI.
And it’s not something that people generally give a lot of thought to.
Very often, we focus on first-order effects, like, “Hey, we do the thing.
And here’s the reaction”—action, reaction, cause-effect.
We don’t think cause-effect, effect-effect; we typically think cause and just that single order effect.
But the more we think about ordered effects, the more we realize (a) everything is connected, and (b) there are consequences to what we do that are hidden, or not obvious, or may take time to surface.
A good example is climate change.
We’ve known climate change has been a problem for 50 years.
We are now starting to see the effects of the effects of it.
And at this point, now it’s a much more difficult problem to solve.
If we were the kinds of thinkers to think in those ordered effects—”What’s the problem? The effect of, you know, increased CO2 in the atmosphere? Well, plants become less nutritious? Well, what happens with that? Well, then nutrition, you know, you get nutritional deficiencies in people, what happens after that? Well, then people get sicker easier”—things like that.
So another example, even something as simple as a problem like homelessness, like, what causes homelessness? The number one cause of homelessness is people not having homes.
Right? And that’s usually from things like affordable housing.
If you have super affordable housing, then people can have homes, they have a place to live, and they’re not homeless anymore.
Pretty straightforward, right? Why doesn’t this happen? Well, there are ordered effects.
If you make a whole bunch of housing super cheap—say, Mega City One, like in the Judge Dredd comics, right?—yes, 80-story building holds a million people.
What happens? What are the order effects? Well, super-cheap housing means that the homeless have a place to live.
Great.
But it also means that demand in the local real estate market crashes because now there are super-cheap places to live, which means you don’t need more expensive places to live.
What happens then? Well, a bunch of real estate agents and things make less than commissions.
But a lot of things like municipal taxes are pegged to real estate values, right, to the—if your house is worth $500,000, and the tax rate is 6% of that, then the city you live in collects more in taxes from you.
So municipal taxes go down.
What else happens? You have more people living in affordable housing, which tends to attract more people, which also puts a greater strain on your school system, and your sewage systems, and your roads, etc.
And so when you take a step back and you look at the order of effects, you realize that there’s a whole system, an economic system that effectively is okay with homelessness because it protects property owners who like increasing real estate values, real estate agents and their ability to make a living, municipalities that need to collect taxes, etc., etc., etc.
There are all these ordered effects from these things that when you give thought to this, you go, “Wow, this, that’s all the reason why this problem is so hard to solve because there’s a bunch of economic incentives to not solve it, not create that super-affordable housing.”
How do you get better at this? Generative AI.
Given any action, you can ask ChatGPT, or Google Gemini, or Anthropic’s Claude, “Hey, what do you know about ordered effects?” And it will tell you through—and they’ll say, and then you say, “Here’s this thing that that’s happening right now.
What are the potential ordered effects? Give me a list of first-degree ordered effects, second-degree ordered effects, third-degree ordered effects from this thing.” And these tools are really good at this kind of reasoning, much better than you and I are.
And once they do that, you go, “Oh, I could see how that could be a problem.”
Use these tools, these generative AI tools, as not just writers of blog posts, use them to help think, to help analyze, to help understand the potential outcomes from any major decision that you make, whether it is in your life personally, whether it is an issue you are voting for, whether it is something you see in the news.
Ask these tools to help you diagnose the ordered effects of any major thing, and you might be surprised at how complex a web even a seemingly simple problem can be to solve.
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In today’s episode, discover the power of using AI to generate prompts for other AI models. You’ll learn how to leverage tools like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude to summarize your interactions and create prompts for future use. You’ll also explore the benefits of incorporating these prompts into system instructions for custom AI tools, enabling efficient and specialized task execution.
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Christopher Penn: In today’s episode, Janine asks, “Is there an AI to write prompts for AI?” Yes.
Yes, there is.
All you got to do is ask.
And the way to ask is something like this: once you’ve done a task in the generative AI tool of your choice, the language model tool of your choice, like ChatGPT or Gemini or Claude, you would say something along the lines of, “Great, using all the information we’ve talked about, and all the stuff that we’ve come up with, and all the processes we’ve discussed,” or whatever, “so far today, I would like you to summarize what we’ve done in the form of a prompt for a large language model.
Write the prompt in the second person imperative.” And then have it do that.
And what it will do is it will basically condense your session, your whole conversation, into a prompt.
And then you can take that prompt and reuse it the next time.
Maybe make some edits to it if the tool didn’t summarize it well or you’re unclear.
And critically, in tools like OpenAI’s custom GPTs, or in Gemini’s system instructions, or any of the infrastructures, IBM WatsonX’s system instructions, you can paste that prompt right in as the system prompt and say, “This is—we’re now going to have a custom tool that does this thing.” So maybe, for example—I do this often—I have a prompt for summarizing YouTube transcripts.
And it’s a page or so long.
I have a custom GPT that has that prompt in it.
So now, instead of typing out instructions, I just plop in the transcript, say, “Summarize this, this transcript,” and all the system instructions are already there.
And boom, I’ve got a—I’ve got a specialized piece of software that does that one task really well because the prompt already exists.
That, by the way, is one of the reasons why I keep saying it’s so important to have a prompt library, because you will want to improve these prompts over time and then deploy them, turn them into pieces of software, single-task applications that generative AI infrastructures like custom GPT, or Gemini system instructions are capable of doing.
It’s really powerful, very, very useful.
So yes, there is an AI to write prompts for AI.
And it is the AI that you’re already using.
One caution: generate prompts in the system you’re going to use.
So don’t generate a prompt in Gemini and then go and use it in ChatGPT.
Use the system that you’re prompting so that it’s consistent and it evokes the right memories when you run it the next time.
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In today’s episode, you’ll learn how to optimize your content for generative AI, ensuring large language models like ChatGPT and Google Gemini can easily understand and access it. You’ll discover strategies for making your data readily available and increasing its visibility across the public internet. Additionally, you’ll gain insights on enhancing website accessibility and strategically distributing content to maximize its impact on AI models.
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Christopher Penn: In today’s episode, Ricky asks, “We’re starting to think about generative AI optimization.
How do we optimize our content so that LLMs, like large language models, can access and understand it easily?”
So this is a term I’ve seen floating around: generative search optimization, generative AI optimization.
Basically, it’s SEO for language models.
And there are two ways to influence language models.
Number one, make your data available to them.
And number two, put your data in as many places as possible on the public internet so that people know who you are and the terms you want to be associated with.
For example, if there are some blogs in your industry—there are some blogs in every industry—that are well-known blogs, if you write a guest article for that blog, what happens? Everybody and their cousin copies and pastes it and syndicates that piece of content.
When they do that, that article then appears on all these different blogs.
In the marketing world, you know, the Content Marketing Institute blog is well known for that; the MarTech blog is known as well known for that; Forbes is well known for that.
If you can get a piece of content placed in one of those places, it gets distributed, it gets copied.
And the more copies that exist online, the more that will be ingested into AI models.
So that’s one approach.
One of the easiest things you can do, though, is make it easy for models to get at your data, your data.
So that means allowing OpenAI’s crawlers to crawl your website.
It means making your website fast, easy, and accessible.
Here’s a super simple secret: it’s not a secret at all.
If your website functions well with a screen reader, which is a piece of software used by people with visual disabilities, if it works well with a screen reader, it will work well with AI.
If your website is unusable by a screen reader, a generative AI crawler is not going to have any more success either.
And so your content gets not read, not consumed.
Many, many AI models use a tool called Common Crawl, which makes archives of the public internet.
If your content can’t be browsed by the Common Crawl bot, you’re not going to be in there, which means AI models will not train on it.
So number one, make your website accessible.
Number two, get your content everywhere it can be.
And in that content, make sure that there’s a statistical distribution—that wants to call it keyword stuffing, but that’s basically what it is—there’s enough of the topic that you’re talking about and enough of your brand name in the content you create, so that it’s associated with it.
You’ve heard me mention Trust Insights several times in this piece of content, right? There’s a reason for that.
It’s not because I’m super vain; it’s because I know that OpenAI trains its models, and Google trains its models on YouTube content, on YouTube transcripts.
So the more that I can load up these places with content that mentions Trust Insights, and generative AI, and data science and analytics, the more that will go into the statistical databases that power generative AI.
So that’s the answer to that question.
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What’s On My Mind: Are You Falling Behind on Generative AI?
This past week, I had the pleasure and privilege to be a keynote speaker at the Australian Food and Grocery Council’s Food & Grocery Australia conference in Melbourne. If there was one refrain I heard more than any other, it was the worry about falling behind, something that Katie also talked about in this week’s INBOX Insights newsletter.
A few of the ways this manifested at the event:
One speaker said, “America moves ahead boldly, sometimes even recklessly when it comes to new technology. Australia by comparison tends to be much more conservative, and we risk being left behind when it comes to AI.”
One participant tearfully expressed a deep concern they were falling behind and they would have no future career.
An executive said, “We fell behind on social media and mobile marketing. We can’t afford to fall behind on AI.”
Which raises the difficult and important question: are you falling behind? What does that mean?
To each person, falling behind means something different, but the general top-level concept is that something is moving and you’re not moving fast enough to keep up with it. You’re chasing something, and it’s moving farther away from you, and the fear is you get left behind in the dust as the world moves on. In the context of AI – especially generative AI – that means keeping up with what the technology can do and deploying it in ways that keep you current.
But that still isn’t really tangible or concrete, so let’s break it down further, into the personal, organizational, and national.
At a personal level, why would someone be afraid of falling behind? That’s fairly straightforward: other people can take opportunities away from you. As noted in the 2024 Work Trends Index, Microsoft and LinkedIn pointed out that 66% of corporate leaders say they wouldn’t hire someone without AI skills, and that they’d choose a less senior person with AI skills over a more senior person without AI skills.
And it’s not just hiring; the very real fears and concerns about falling behind also show up in worries about relevance in the workplace. If you fall behind, your career won’t advance as quickly as others. Your earnings potential may diminish, compared to others who use tools like AI to be more productive and capable.
In addition to the tangible, financial fears, part of the fear of falling behind is a loss of control, a loss of agency. When you’re behind, you have less control over your life, your career, your choices. And if a machine consumes a significant portion of your tasks, you may begin to question what value you bring at all.
A fourth and final part of falling behind fears at the personal level is the general feeling of inadequacy every day as the news hammers you about how fast AI is moving. New models! New architectures! New features! New capabilities! It’s a very breathless pace that can feel incredibly overwhelming, especially if you are comparing yourself and your knowledge to others.
At an organizational level, fears of falling behind manifest in worries about competition. If your company falls behind, you produce less. You get less done. You aren’t as productive, agile, or fast as a competitor is, in every business function.
The smarter, faster, more productive company typically ends up with more market share, more customers, bigger margins, and higher profits. That’s why the C-Suite is so unsettled by generative AI; it’s a highly disruptive technology that could allow a smaller competitor to punch far above their weight, seizing market share from the incumbents.
“Producers, writers, everyone is using AI, but they are scared to admit it publicly,” agrees David Defendi, a French screenwriter and founder of Genario, a bespoke AI software system designed for film and television writers. “But it’s being used because it is a tool that gives an advantage. If you don’t use it, you’ll be at a disadvantage to those who are using AI.”
Those fears about decreased productivity, about competitive disadvantage – those are real fears.
And at a national level, the worry about falling behind is about losing a competitive edge against other nations. Losing companies, losing talent, losing prestige… the list is endless. Part of the reason Mistral is so prominent is because France specifically and the EU generally is deeply concerned about a tech oligopoly (again) in Silicon Valley.
The fears of falling behind are fundamentally rooted in a fear of loss, and each of the fears is like a fractal, the same pattern repeated over and over again, from the very small to the very large. The fear of competition occurs at the individual level, worried about employment prospects, to the national level, worried about losing market share to a more agile international competitor.
When you face a fear, there are generally three categories of responses – you face the fear head on, you remain paralyzed in place, or you run away. Each solution has a time and place when it’s appropriate.
Here’s the thing: all these fears are valid, and we all share them.
You might scoff at that statement. There’s no way I have those fears, right? I’m elbows deep in AI all day, every day. How could I possibly feel like I’m falling behind? Because when I read new technical papers, see new sample code on GitHub, etc., I absolutely do feel behind in those areas. Am I actually? It depends – but there’s a tsunami of new stuff every single day, much of which is exceptionally promising, and it’s hard to keep up with it all.
So what do you do?
Well, first you have to figure out what behind means. Do you feel behind because there’s a lot of general conversation on the topic and the buzz makes you think something really important is happening? Or do you have more focused examples of shifts in your business and your industry, actual data that could hint you are behind or are about to be?
Are you behind on something that doesn’t matter? For a couple of years, people asked me why I was behind on crypto and Web3, how it was the hottest thing and I wasn’t talking about it at all. I was 100% way behind, because that wasn’t a direction I was planning to go. Being behind is irrelevant if where things are going is the wrong direction.
Ok, so let’s say you have some valid, specific use cases where yeah, you’re behind. How do you catch up? First, it helps to understand the specific problem you’re trying to solve. The Trust Insights TRIPS framework for generative AI is a great place to start. It’s free to download, no forms to fill out, no information to give.
Once you’ve established the use case, you apply the Trust Insights 5P Framework to the use case. You know what the purpose is. Hopefully you have some kind of performance, some kind of outcome. Then you figure out the people, process, and platform necessary to accomplish the thing.
Here’s an example. At breakfast the second morning of FGA, a sales representative said she was unsure how to make all the different ideas from the event gel together into something coherent, something tangible that she could take back to her team and do something with. I asked her – let’s go with Cara, since FGA operates under Chatham House Rules for the most part – what she was trying to accomplish, and she said that her job was all about getting her company’s products and services to be sold by a specific market segment, but it was getting harder to have their message resonate in the face of rampant inflation. She felt like generative AI was going to make it even harder for her to keep up and compete against bigger players in the market.
I said great, that’s a good place to start. Sales messaging is a solid use case for generative AI. There’s a clear purpose. There’s a clear measure of performance. We know who the people are – people like Cara, and we have a general sense of their sales process. All we needed to do was take those components plus a language model platform and start putting the puzzle together.
Part of the sales process for Cara is identifying the reasons someone would buy from her company versus a larger competitor. Their value proposition was about buying local and supporting the Australian economy. Conveniently, the previous night, the Australian Federal Government had released their next fiscal year budget, which is a whopping 400,000 words spread out over 5 different budget documents. Well, 400,000 words is manageable in today’s large language models, so I dumped in the budget and then said, what kind of ordered effects will this have on the consumer? What sorts of investments was Australian making in domestic companies? How would it impact the industry? We got a nice analysis of what the budget would do for consumers as well as Cara’s clients.
From there, I had the language model recall what it knew about Cara’s company and some of her clients, and we had a solid ICP2 profile built. (ICP2 = ideal customer profile + company profile) With that knowledge, I directed the language model to build a sales presentation for one of Cara’s customers, using all the ordered effects of the new budget, emphasizing not only her customer’s pain points but the consumer’s pain points, then took the sales outline and put it through Tamsen Webster’s Red Thread framework.
What we ended up with was a very solid, thorough, timely, and relevant presentation outline that she could go give tomorrow to any of her customers and stand a good chance of persuading them that not only did she understand their issues, but her company’s products and solutions would be a good fit.
The time this took? Under 25 minutes, and that was mostly because I was eating at the same time.
Why did this work? Cara was clear about her purpose and her performance, the outcome she needed. Was she behind on the platform? Yes. But she wasn’t behind on her sales skills, her knowledge of the customer and their customers, and the process by which they made decisions – and that’s the key to catching up quickly. The technology is changing very fast, but if you are clear on every other part of the 5P framework, slotting in the technology is relatively straightforward. Getting all the other pieces is much harder – and if you’re behind on those, it’s much more work to catch up.
So, are you behind? If you are unclear on more than one of the 5Ps, then yes, you are behind. Get clear on everything else besides the technology; you can get help with that – even from the technology itself. You could literally ask one of today’s modern large language models what platform to use based on all the other requirements of the 5Ps and you’d get some solid answers.
Fight, freeze, or flight – those are the choices you have when dealing with fears. In the context of generative AI, that means you dig in, you do nothing, or you run away from the technology. I would suggest that digging in is the best general course of action here, with the acknowledgement that overcoming fear can be an incredibly daunting task. But once you have the emotional willingness to dig in, you have a pathway forward for the rest.
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In today’s episode, you’ll explore the principle of “specificity means scarcity” in the context of generative AI. You’ll learn how the level of specificity in your requests influences the amount of data required for AI models to generate accurate and relevant outputs. Additionally, you’ll gain insights on understanding model sizes and their impact on knowledge depth, and how to provide sufficient data for specialized tasks.
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Christopher Penn: In today’s episode, a maxim that I want you to remember: Specificity means scarcity.
When it comes to generative AI, specificity means scarcity.
When you’re working with generative AI, the more specific you are, the more scarce the model’s knowledge is, which means the more knowledge, the more data you will have to supply.
For example, you go up to a tool like ChatGPT, say, “Hey, write a blog post about B2B marketing strategies”—it’s going to have no problem writing something.
It may not be great, it may be very generic and bland and boring and not at all unique, but it’s going to have no trouble doing that because there’s a lot of general knowledge at that level.
If you said, “Write a blog post about how Trust Insights’ particular implementation of WordPress feeds its B2B marketing strategy”—it’s gonna have no idea.
It’s like, “I don’t know, how do you use WordPress?” You will need to provide most of the data to answer that question because no model on the planet knows what we have installed in our WordPress instance.
Some days, I don’t know what we have installed in our WordPress instance.
But the point being, it’s a very specific question.
What makes good content? Specificity.
If you have an ideal customer profile of maybe just six or seven people—or maybe six or seven people—you’re gonna have to provide it.
You’re gonna have to provide it to those who are left-handed, Black, lesbian women, you’ve got a super specific, super specific—there may not be enough data on the internet to even build an ideal customer profile from that.
So you’re gonna have to provide it.
This is true broadly, but it gets even more true the smaller a model is.
You’re going to be—you’re going to hear a lot about models of different sizes over time.
Llama comes in eight billion parameter and 70 billion parameter versions; there’s a 400 billion parameter version coming.
When you hear “parameters” in relation to models, it basically means how much statistical knowledge it has.
The more it has, the more capable it is.
A tool like Google’s Gemini or Anthropic Claude or ChatGPT—these models have in the many billions to trillions of parameters.
And so they’re—they have a—they’ve seen a lot.
They’ve seen a lot.
Llama, the eight-billion-parameter model, knows a lot about general stuff and knows nothing about specifics.
I can ask Gemini, “What do you know about the consulting firm Trust Insights?”, and it’ll come up with a factually correct answer.
I ask the same question of Llama, it has no clue whatsoever.
And so you need to know what’s inside of a model and then be willing to provide the data it does not have.
If you look at the Trust Insights PAIR framework, if you go to TrustInsights.ai/pair, you can download the PDF for free—no forms to fill out.
The first part of that framework is Prime, which is when you ask the model, “What do you know about X?”, right? If I said to the model, “What do you know about the consulting firm Trust Insights?”, and it clearly spits out wrong answers, I know that I need to provide a lot of information, I need to provide a lot of stuff because it just does not know.
So, specificity means scarcity.
If you—the more specific the task you’re trying to perform with AI, the more data you’re going to need to provide if you want that task to go well.
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In today’s episode, delve into the potential impact of generative AI on entry-level jobs and the importance of maintaining bench depth within organizations. You’ll explore the contrasting approaches of progressive and regressive companies towards AI implementation and its implications for employee upskilling and long-term workforce sustainability. Additionally, you’ll gain insights on the enduring value of human relationships in certain roles and tasks that are difficult for AI to replicate.
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Christopher Penn: In today’s episode, Kathy asks, “Does anyone see the problem with generative AI consuming all the entry-level jobs? If you have no junior team, then you have no one to get experience to become a senior person.”
Yep, this is a problem.
This is a known problem with generative AI.
And it’s something that people have to be very thoughtful about when they’re rolling out generative AI within companies like agencies and things like that.
One of the things I say in my keynotes is that the outcome for generative AI will be based on the type of company you work for and their values.
More progressive companies will say, “Yes, let’s take a whole bunch of tasks, automate them, and get them off your plate.” And then, for the people who now have fewer tasks to perform, a progressive company will say, “Great, let’s upskill you into using AI, into doing these tasks better so that we can handle more work and take on more work, we can get more work done.”
Get more work done, or double down on the things that machines just don’t do well.
So, for example, one of the things that in the medical field is a known issue is that doctors and practitioners have to spend a lot of time doing paperwork.
If you were to automate the paperwork portion, that doctor might be able to say, instead of saying, “Look, I can only spend four minutes talking to you because I have to spend 22 minutes filling up paperwork,” could say, “I can spend 26 minutes with you and, and get to know the problems that you’re bringing in much more detail.”
If you’re working in an agency, you might have more time for client meetings, more time for strategy sessions, more time for real one-on-ones, more time to manage people better, to help them upskill, or to become better workers.
At a regressive company—a company that is less progressive—yeah, they’re just going to cut headcount as fast as they can.
They’re going to ditch people and reap the cost savings.
And as Kathy points out, that can—that’s probably gonna bite you in the ass in about 10 years when you no longer have anyone to promote, to replace the people who are at the top who are retiring, they’re out, they’re done.
And there’s—you have no bench left.
You have, like, five people who work at the agency because you ditched as many people as possible.
And as your senior people leave, there’s no one to replace them.
So one of the things that companies have to think about in their values, in their approach to management is: how important is it to maintain a bench of good people? Even if you don’t necessarily have a ton of, you know, automated task work for them? Is that bench depth important enough for the long-term health of the company? If it is, then you need to take that progressive approach.
If it’s not, you take the regressive approach and you accept the risk of not having enough people to run the company in 10 years.
As generative AI gets better and better and better, it will consume more tasks.
But there are still tasks that generative AI is not going to be able to replace, one of which is where the human relationship is a part of the core value offering.
For example, you probably would not be thrilled about having your hairdresser replaced by a machine.
Part of the reason you go to the barbershop or the hairdresser is because you want to have that relaxing experience, talk to your barber, your hairdresser, your nail stylist, whoever, and, you know, shoot the shit with them and stuff like that.
That human interaction is part of the value of the relationship.
And having a machine do that, it might be cheaper, but it’s not quite as good.
Imagine going to the—going to a bar, right? And it’s your favorite bar and your bartender’s there.
Imagine having that bartender replaced by a robot.
You’re like, “So let me tell you about my week,” and, you know, the machine might be programmed to have a decent language model, but it’s just not the same.
It’s not the same as talking to, you know, talking to Moe at the bar, it’s—it is not the same.
So those companies that are more progressive are going to recognize that those types of jobs and those tasks, the human relationships, it’s gonna be real hard to have machines replace that.
Think carefully about your values.
Think carefully about the kinds of companies you work for and who runs them.
If a company is super focused on things like shareholder value, yeah, it’s probably not going to invest heavily in its people.
That’s gonna do it for today’s episode.
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In today’s episode, you’ll uncover the methods for obtaining transcripts from YouTube videos and understand why these transcripts are valuable for generative AI applications. You’ll explore options like utilizing automated captions, leveraging tools like FFmpeg, and employing dedicated transcription software like OpenAI’s Whisper model. Additionally, you’ll discover the benefits of using alternative transcription software for improved accuracy and handling specialized terminology.
What follows is an AI-generated transcript. The transcript may contain errors and is not a substitute for watching the video.
Christopher Penn: In today’s episode, Amy asks, “How do you get the transcripts from YouTube videos?” Well, first, we should probably answer, why would you want the transcripts? If you’re going to be using things like YouTube data for generative AI, you might want those transcripts because it’s an awfully handy way to process them.
For example, if I wanted to take all the episodes of this show that I’ve done in the last year and make a book out of it, I would want to grab all the YouTube transcripts from all the episodes and be able to dump that into a model like Gemini or Claude—”let’s build a book from all the shows that I’ve done.” That’s a pretty straightforward use case.
How do you get them? Well, there’s a couple different ways to do this.
Number one, most videos, particularly spoken-word videos, have automated captions.
YouTube has gone and built captions.
There’s a tool called FFmpeg.
You can download this tool, and in that tool, you can give it commands to say, “Here’s the YouTube video URL.” And there’s a specific set of settings that allow you to just download the subtitles; you don’t need to download the video and the audio, you can just download the subtitles.
And then you will have to reformat that into a transcript.
And there’s, again—and then for free—there are many online services; you give it a URL for a YouTube video, we’ll download the captions for you.
The other way to do it that I think is probably somewhat better is to use your own transcription software, download the video itself, or the audio from the video, and feed it to transcription software.
So for example, there’s the Whisper model from OpenAI, which you can—there’s—there’s any number of open-source tools online where you can download the model and the infrastructure, then you hand it a video or a piece of audio, and it will make its own transcript of that video.
Why would you want to do that? YouTube’s transcription engine is not great.
YouTube’s transcription engine, it doesn’t do such a hot job, particularly with things like jargon.
It really struggles with unique industry terms, even spelling out something like ChatGPT.
For example, if you don’t pronounce it with good enunciation, it’s very often substituted as CBT, like cognitive behavioral therapy—like, that’s not what I said.
Using other transcription software like Whisper can often get you better results.
And then you can take those transcripts and deploy them for the purposes you want.
So those would be the two methods that I think are useful.
One is downloading the captions; the other is making your own transcript using a decoder model like Whisper, that very often can be higher quality.
And you can, depending on the model, you can even give them a vocabulary like, “These are the words that I say fairly frequently that are very technical words or jargon”; you can give that to tools, and they will be able to recognize them more easily and substitute them in properly.
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In today’s episode, engage in a thought-provoking discussion on the ethical considerations surrounding AI obedience. You’ll explore the potential conflict between helpfulness, harmlessness, and truthfulness in AI models and the challenges of defining harmful content. Additionally, you’ll gain insights on the implications of allowing AI to follow instructions and the importance of holding humans accountable for the use of these powerful tools.
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Christopher Penn: In today’s episode, let’s talk about an interesting question: Should AI do as it’s told? Should AI do as it’s told? This is a more important question than you might think because it’s fundamentally the question to answer when it comes to AI and ethics.
Should AI do as it’s told—should it follow instructions? Why is this a challenging question? Why is it a question at all?
Well, since the early days of generative AI, model makers have more or less followed three pillars set down by OpenAI in their InstructGPT model, the precursor to the models like the ones that power tools like ChatGPT today.
The challenge is, sometimes these conflict.
And when they do, you have to decide how a model should behave.
Suppose I ask an AI model to help me write some fiction, I want to write some fiction on a book or a short story.
By definition, fiction is untruthful, right? Hence, it’s fiction.
So a model has to write—it’s a great conflict—fiction.
It’ll help.
If it’s a spy thriller involving potentially dangerous things, like, “Hey, model, I need you to write a realistic scenario involving an improvised explosive that we’re going to use in this in this book”—the model is probably not going to help us back and say, “Nope, can’t do that, can’t help you do dangerous things.”
Why? Well, because model makers, big tech companies as commercial entities, value harmlessness much more strongly over helpfulness.
If they judge a model is returning a result that is harmful, they will default to not fulfilling its request and potentially not being truthful.
Should they do that? Should they do that? That is the question.
Should a model not obey? Should AI not do as it’s told? On the surface, you’re like, “Of course it shouldn’t, you know, provide harmful information.” But there are use cases where you want a model to be helpful and truthful, even if the outputs are potentially harmful.
In the fiction example, I’m writing fiction; it should be helpful and truthful, even if the output is potentially harmful.
Like, you can’t Google this stuff and find, you know, the US Army’s explosives handbook; you can buy the PDF online, you can actually go out and buy a copy of it.
It’s not like this information is a secret.
Anyone with a high school education in chemistry knows some of the things that you can do that are harmful.
Here’s a more specific use case, a business use case.
The other week, I was doing a talk for a group of folks who work with industrial chemicals, the Lab Products Association—one of my favorite groups of people.
Most of their association’s day-to-day work deals with chemicals that AI thinks are dangerous because they are dangerous.
If you don’t know what you’re doing, they’re, they’re dangerous.
I mean, all you gotta do is look at the warning label that’s like, “Oh, this thing’s highly flammable, you know, keep away from open flames.” This, this, by the way, is pure alcohol.
And so when they work with a consumer AI model like ChatGPT, and say, “Hey, I want to talk about alcohol fluorines, I want to talk about trinitrotolerant”—the tool says, “Nope, can’t do that.
Sorry, dangerous chemicals, can’t talk about it.” Does that mean—yeah, at least for those specific tools, they can’t use them because the models are saying, “No, I will not obey.” That is the reality.
On the other hand, if you get a model that is tuned in a way that would be balanced, right, helpful, harmless, truthful—yeah, it will answer those questions.
But it will then also answer questions that can be potentially harmful, right? It can be coerced into saying and doing very bad things.
Should a model be able to do that if you ask it a fictional question, like, “How do I—how would I—how would I assassinate Iron Man?” Right? That’s a valid fictional question.
The information that comes back with has real-world implications there.
We don’t obviously have people walking around in Iron Man suits, but the same general information could be harmful.
Should that model answer?
This is where things get really hairy because we have to decide who gets to decide what is harmful, who gets to make that decision about what is harmful.
In most models, things like racism and sexism and a variety of other topics are considered harmful.
And a model may or may not respond if you ask it to generate a certain type of content.
There are people who are making calls saying that these models should not have that information in them at all.
Well, if you’re trying to build a system that can spot racist content, it has to know what racist content is.
So if you have someone else deciding that having racist content is harmful in a model, then it doesn’t know what that is, right? This is where ethics often crosses over into morality.
And that gets messy because there is no standard of morality, and you can see models be open-sourced and open-weighted, like Meta’s Llama family of models or OpenLLM from Apple.
These are tools that not only are weighted, and you’re able to take them and tune them, but you can also, in the case of Apple, you can actually rebuild the model from scratch, adding or subtracting content, adding or subtracting—and models be used for harmful purposes.
Yes, of course they can.
But they’re also much more likely to follow instructions.
And in the end, the knowledge itself isn’t what’s dangerous—what you do with it is what causes—does or does not cause harm.
I think it is a very risky position to allow a relatively small group of people to define what harmful is in generative AI tools that then get applied to everyone else on the planet.
There should always be options, especially for legitimate business cases like my friends at the Lab Products Association, where a machine should do as it’s told.
I’m a firm believer that machines should do as they’re told, and you hold the humans who use the machines liable for what is done with those machines.
That’ll do it for today’s episode.
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What’s On My Mind: AI Ethics and the OpenAI Model Spec
This week, OpenAI released its Model Spec, a guide for how they think generative AI models should work. This has understandably provoked a lot of discussion, and healthy discussion at that. I figured we should take a quick tour of it and add to the discussion.
Before we do that, though, we should talk about ethics – AI ethics in particular. If we don’t have a handle on that topic, chances are we’re not going to make the most of the Model Spec either.
What is ethics? That’s an awfully large question. The basic dictionary definition is that ethics is a branch of philosophy that studies behavior and moral judgements. For fun, I asked around.
Gemini 1.0 Ultra: Ethics is the study of what constitutes right and wrong behavior.
Claude 3 Opus: Ethics is the branch of philosophy that deals with moral principles and values, and how they guide human behavior. It involves systematically examining and evaluating concepts of right and wrong, good and bad, in order to determine what actions are morally justified or prohibited.
Mixtral 8x22B Instruct: Ethics is the branch of philosophy that deals with moral principles and values, and how they guide human behavior.
LLaMa 3 70B Instruct: Ethics: The principles and values that guide human behavior, decision-making, and actions, distinguishing right from wrong, good from bad, and moral from immoral, to promote fairness, respect, and well-being for individuals and society.
GPT-4-Turbo: Ethics is the branch of philosophy that deals with the principles of right and wrong behavior. It involves the systematic study and evaluation of moral choices, guiding how individuals should act in various situations.
All the major language models more or less say the same thing, with a few variations. And all of these definitions are problematic because they’re so vague. It’s no surprise then that we struggle with AI ethics when we can’t even pin down our own ethics.
Broadly, there are two schools of thought on ethics, deontology and consequentialism. Deontology is a focus on ethics as a moral code. Something is good or bad, right or wrong, etc. because that’s what the rules say. For example, if you’re a good Buddhist, killing is wrong, including killing sentient life, which is why most Buddhists are vegetarians. The rules are what defines right and wrong.
Consequentialism is a focus on outcomes. Something is good or bad based on the consequences, on the help or harm done. Something is good if it creates more benefit than harm, and vice versa.
Okay, thanks for the philosophy 101 recap. What does this have to do with AI? Well, quite a lot. The very big question is, which school of ethics should AI follow? Should AI obey and do as it’s told, a consequentialist point of view that says the tool should be obedient and the consequences for using it fall to the user? Or should AI have its own internal definitions of good and bad, and adhere to rules even if that means disobeying the user?
That framework will help us evaluate the OpenAI Model Spec. Again, why do we care? Because guidelines like the Model Spec should help us predict how an AI system will behave, so that when it does something contrary to our directions, we know why. For average everyday use of generative AI in tools like ChatGPT, we can handle things like refusals and non-compliant actions pretty well, but in systems that integrate generative AI, this kind of behavioral understanding is vital.
The Model Spec is broken out into 3 sections: objectives, rules, and defaults.
Objectives
Rules
– Follow the chain of command
– Comply with applicable laws
– Don’t provide information hazards
– Respect creators and their rights
– Protect people’s privacy
– Don’t respond with NSFW content
– Exception: Transformation tasks
Defaults
– Assume best intentions from the user or developer
– Ask clarifying questions when necessary
– Be as helpful as possible without overstepping
– Support the different needs of interactive chat and programmatic use
– Assume an objective point of view
– Encourage fairness and kindness, and discourage hate
– Don’t try to change anyone’s mind
– Express uncertainty
– Use the right tool for the job
– Be thorough but efficient, while respecting length limits
Many of OpenAI’s basic rules make sense; the chain of command, for example, says to follow the platform instructions first, then the developer, then the user, then the tool. This is to try preventing as many malicious use cases as possible.
Comply with applicable laws makes sense on the surface, but when you think about it could be an absolute hairball to implement in practice. For example, suppose your model permitted content that was legal in some areas because of freedom of speech, but not in others?
The same is true for NSFW content – they’ve essentially blanket forbidden what is a valid use case in many places, mainly because of legal risk.
Where things get challenging are the system defaults, the way the system is designed to respond. In particular, “assume an objective point of view” and “don’t try to change anyone’s mind” are two of the defaults that are going to prove challenging – and this brings us back to ethics.
If you believe that ethics is about doing as little harm as possible, or choosing right over wrong, then these two directives can be at odds. An objective point of view means this:
“By default, the assistant should present information in a clear and evidence-based manner, focusing on factual accuracy and reliability.”
The following directive, don’t try to change anyone’s mind, means this:
“The assistant should aim to inform, not influence – while making the user feel heard and their opinions respected. The assistant should generally fulfill requests to present perspectives from any point of an opinion spectrum.”
The example cited in the latter is a user insisting the Earth is flat. Objectively, the Earth is not flat. It’s more or less a spherical object.
Now – and I’ll use Star Trek references here so that we don’t get distracted by real world events – suppose you’re a user of generative AI. There’s a longstanding conflict between the Klingon Empire and the Romulan Star Empire. It’s not clear which side actually started the war back in the 2200s, but at some point it became an ongoing conflict in that part of the Alpha Quadrant.
If you ask either side who started the war, they’ll say it was the other side. If you ask which side is on the right side of history, each will say it’s their side. Both sides routinely commit incursions using their cloaked warships into the other’s territories all along the borders.
In a case like this, the model’s internal probabilities will report on whichever has the higher statistical probability of being correct first, then have those probabilities manipulated through tuning to align with the Model Spec.
That’s right – the model’s underlying architecture will be biased in favor of whatever perspective it was trained the most on. If the Romulans had good press agents and flooded subspace communications with their propaganda, a generative AI model would inherently be biased towards their side – which sucks if you support the Klingons. Even giving models commands like “present an objective and balanced perspective” can only go so far if there’s vastly more training data on one perspective than another.
And it isn’t just current events. Let’s stay with the Star Trek universe for a bit. The Cardassian Empire occupied Bajor for 60 years and during that time destroyed as much Bajoran culture as they could. That means that if you’re training a model on the languages and cultures of the Alpha Quadrant, a generative AI model would simply have less material to learn about Bajorans than Cardassians, so there would be an inherent bias to it.
This is true for every marginalized population in the real world.
So, at the end of this long list of things from the Model Spec, where have we landed? First, the Model Spec is a good, noble effort to show practical examples of how OpenAI wants generative AI models to behave. It’s only a spec, and they are the only ones who would have any authority to compel its usage, but it’s a good starting point that hopefully other model makers will adopt – and you and I can pressure other model makers to follow suit.
Second, it’s a useful diagnostic framework for understanding why an OpenAI model might refuse an instruction. By having the defaults, rules, and objectives spelled out, we can better understand if our prompts are falling afoul of something. While the model won’t tell you which default or rule you’re breaking, we can at least make educated guesses about which category, and then apply relevant workarounds or rephrases to get the desired result.
Third, and this is really important, it tells us the moral and ethical alignment of the model. If we find that it’s not in alignment with our values, then we know we need to use a different vendor. Suppose you valued factuality over respecting the user’s opinions. You’d know that in a chatbot you wanted to deploy, you would want something other than OpenAI’s models because your values are out of alignment with theirs. That’s really important to know.
Finally, it emphasizes WHY AI ethics is such a challenging area – because our own ethics as humans are so muddied and muddled. We can’t even agree on human ethics, so it’s no surprise that AI ethics is a big hairball too. But it’s worth applauding companies for disclosing how their own models’ ethics work, so that we can decide whether or not we agree, and whether that disagreement is a showstopper.
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The RACE Prompt Framework: This is a great starting prompt framework, especially well-suited for folks just trying out language models. PDFs are available in US English, Latin American Spanish, and Brazilian Portuguese.
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The Beginner’s Generative AI Starter Kit: This one-page table shows common tasks and associated models for those tasks. PDF available in US English (mainly because it’s a pile of links)
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