Generative AI, Explained
A plain-English tour of generative AI — how it differs from older AI, the main families of tools, where it goes wrong, and how to use it responsibly.
Generating vs. classifying
Two very different jobs For most of its history, everyday AI was a sorter. You handed it something and it put a label on it: this email is spam or not spam, this photo contains a cat or a dog, this transaction looks fraudulent. That kind of AI is called classifying (or predicting). It never […]
Your own first workflow
One task, done properly, beats ten experiments Most people try generative AI on a dozen things, find it uneven, and drift away. The ones for whom it sticks pick a single repeating task and get it genuinely right, once. The saved prompt then pays back every week without further thought. Choose well The task should […]