The AI Optimist

AI helps you know what your customers want, their questions, and why they buy. If you stop doing things the old way - like search is the center of your customer’s universe - and follow this plan. Because 90% of the new business game is showing up with human-generated content!' Does AI Reveal New Customers for a Window Tinting Company? A window tinting company was losing business. They didn’t know...

Remember how easy creative life was just 2 years ago. Creators wrote books, paintings, and pictures; curators asked permission to use parts in their work, with payments if sales were made. Out with the Old, In with the GenAI: The Transformation of Copyright A creator and a curator shape how others experience the world. A creator by producing new works of art, literature, music, etc., and a curator...

Right now, I can take any art, photo, or writing you create with AI and take it, sell it, and do what I want. Because if it came out with the help of AI, you can’t copyright it. Want to understand why AI copyrights don’t happen? Award Winning GenAI Art in 624 Prompts = The Void of Ownership What Rights Does Copyright Give? Is AI-Generated Content “Fair Use”? Challenges to the Inability to Copyrigh...

💡Bias is a trickster of truth and the source of so many challenges in AI. Falling in love with ChatGPT, I search for sources about “flow cytometry” to share and impress some bioscientists I work with who haven’t yet joined my AI rapture. As the answer comes in before I call, I check the sources. Everyone fake. Not one truth. The scientists could have been more impressed. Snap me out of my AI rapt...

The bias lies not just in AI but in ourselves. We create the content, select the data, try to set the rules, and help AI do seemingly magical things. Bias also has different meanings worldwide and is a threat everywhere. Understanding the bias in our societies helps us improve AI and remove harmful bias. To avoid making the mistakes we did with early AI algorithms on social media, leading to hyper...

It’s easy to talk about the AI game while clinging to the comfort of an echo chamber, repeating their old, comfortable business stereotypes. Bias is a mirage, especially against AI! Reimagining AI’s Role: Cultivating Customer Bias in an Ethical Way Using Customer Bias to Your Advantage: A 7-Step Guide  Making Customer Bias Ethical for Them and You Seven Simple AI Truths: The Customer Voice is All...

Your first prompt is like dipping your toe into the AI ocean, inspiring yet still wondering what lurks beneath the surface. Is it Terminator AI or the next coming of tech to free us from the drudgery of thinking and creating content? Instead of wondering how the AI black box works, let’s start with your intent, the context of your question, and how to frame it. Then follow up by challenging the re...

How does an old tool like email even last in the time of AI? Because everybody has an email, and as all the Creator Economy have recently discovered, it’s a powerful way to keep in touch that you control. So you build a following on social media. You see others with thriving businesses driven by email, so you start. —staring blankly at an email draft, fingers hovering over the keyboard, unsure of...

The Silent Observer: AI’s Evolution Over the Past Decade From the moment you wake up, you’re being watched, not by another person but by an invisible presence: algorithms powered by artificial intelligence (AI).  Over the past decade, the rise of AI has seen digital footprints become goldmines for large tech companies and governments. For teenagers, especially, the allure of social media is undeni...

The AI Optimist Debate Question 1:   While AI holds immense potential in education and business, serious privacy concerns exist. AI systems need access to vast amounts of personal data to provide personalized learning and business insights. How can we ensure this data is not misused or exploited, and what safeguards should we put in place to protect individuals' privacy rights? The AI Optimist see...

I’ll play The AI Optimist on my podcast and Substack, an instructional designer and growth developer for 30 years looking at how AI might benefit humanity in education and business. While the first wave is dominated by billionaires and trillion-dollar companies vying to control, my goal is to bring this down to how it serves people, not just in my country but everywhere. I'm scared to begin in a w...

Like many things GenAI, this pod began with a role playing debate on the future of AI. The following prompt is inspired by the work of Ethan Mollick and the approach to educational prompts here. My answers were done quickly and will be updated in future pods answering each one of these questions, with research sources and asking you for input as the reader. Data scientists and people with a deep u...

What can AI do for you? Skills and Opportunities 1. Self Reflection: How can AI help today? 👉👉 What do you enjoy doing, and what are you good at? 👉👉 When do you feel the most productive? 👉👉 What holds you back from improving? Identify gaps. 2. Define your Marketing Skill Sets and Skills needing help (example) ✅ Digital marketing skills (SEO, PPC, email, social media marketing, content creat...