[2509.13348] Towards an AI-Augmented Textbook - Adapting/changing textbooks to match learning style. // This is an additive use of AI: you’re not replacing humans, you’re doing more work that they humans couldn’t do.
Enterprise AI Looks Bleak, But Employee AI Looks Bright - I think a take-away is: AI ROI accruing to individuals, not the enterprise as a whole. This must drive executives crazy. Is that some kind of digital Marxist thing?
AI Center of Excellence Gatekeepers Guild
Getting over the AI policy board bottleneckAlso, people have suggested that have just two roles on the AI Center of Excellence Gatekeepers Guild is a good idea. Those two roles being security and legal. The theory is that the security people are used to this kind of thing and have processes in place. Also, that they are narrowly focused on a handful of things. You need the lawyers for all the whacky IP stuff.
Everyday AI and AI Everyday, with Hannah Foxwell - Software Defined Talk
Everyday AI and AI Everyday, with Hannah Foxwell - Software Defined Talk
Check out last week’s Software Defined Interviews with Hannah Foxwell: > In this episode, Whitney and Coté talk about the integration of AI into daily life with Hannah Foxwell, organizer of AI for the Rest of Us, among many other doings. They talk about stuff like practical applications of AI in daily tasks like finding recipes and tech support to the complexities of adopting AI in professional settings.
The Larry King
Desk and framing arrangement for that YouTube talking head look.
The Man Calling Bullshit on the AI Boom - “To what end? What happened there? Because we get all these stories about ‘Oh, they fed all the data into the LLM,’ and then what?”'// Plus, a list of previous big tech things that have been utter bullshit.
The intelligence is in the user - The robot is only as good as what you bring to it.
The art of Jean-Michel Nicollet - “French cover design can be unsympathetic to cover illustration, crowding the paintings with poor type choices and purposeless graphics.” // Great looking paperback covers. // That basic framing would be good for video thumbnails…?
Manton predicts the AI oligopoly - “I’m increasingly thinking that we’ll have OpenAI and Google for the mainstream, Anthropic carving out an enterprise niche, Meta doing the ads thing, open source models… and the rest of the industry is going to fade away."
“How many $18 glasses of natural wine can you drink while friends relay the latest upsetting news they gleaned from X, Instagram, and TikTok…” the new lost generation