I’ve been having fun giving feedback on other writers’ blog posts recently — and it’s also made me remember that it works really well for me to add comments to a piece in track changes 😂 Usually, I do all my drafting in-browser. So, I decided for my next long piece, I’d go through the revision process in Google Docs — and I’m sharing the drafts for anyone who’s interested in how others edit their own work. (I also have a writeup describing my revision process in steps.)
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See look I don’t hate all AI
- James G. put together a fun clickable bookshelf using computer vision, OCR, and GPT — this looks far easier than ye olden days of image maps
- Researchers have figured out how to extract and decipher text from a scroll carbonized in the Vesuvius eruption using machine learning 🌋
- Anna Ridler’s Mosaic Virus is a clever art installation likening the furor over cryptocurrency to the great tulip rush that uses machine learning to render tulip imagery
- Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg‘s Pollinator Pathfinder project generates custom planting plans designed for pollinators, and even has a preview of “pollinator vision” 😍 The plants aren’t for North America but the concept is so cool!
This puts me in mind of Annie Sturdivant’s comparison of AI and plastic; there are some things that plastic is absolutely amazing for (lots of medical stuff), but also the world is drowning in single-use plastic waste.
More interesting uses I’ve saved before:
Analyzing traffic safety with AI
Using GPT-4 to measure the passage of time in fiction by Ted Underwood
Getting creative with embeddings by Amelia Wattenberger
Identifying whale individuals by their tail with machine learning
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Conversational copywriting
Conversational copy is writing how you talk. No sales megaphone. No corporate drone. Just a conversation. But that’s easier said than done. So I’ve put together this guide (packed with examples) to help teach you.
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Internal comms as external comms
These notes are published on the web. They’re open. They’re external comms as well as internal governance.
This is an attribute of good agile communication: rather than doing the work, then crafting careful PR-style messages about how brilliant it is, your task is different. You do the work, and you peel back the wrappings so that the outside world can peer in and see for themselves how brilliant it is.