Category Archives: Artificial Intelligence
Agentic AI
From an article in the Harvard Business Review by Mark Purdy:
“You can define agentic AI with one word: proactiveness,” said Enver Cetin, an AI expert at global Experience Engineering firm Ciklum, whom I interviewed. “It refers to AI systems and models that can act autonomously to achieve goals without the need for constant human guidance. The agentic AI system understands what the goal or vision of the user is and the context to the problem they are trying to solve.”
Agentic AI systems are ideal for non-routine, soft-skills work in areas such as healthcare and caregiving.
“Hippocratic AI, an agentic AI healthcare company based in California, has created a phalanx of AI agents tailored to different areas of healthcare and social support. The team counts among its ranks Sarah, an AI agent who “radiates warmth and understanding” while providing help with assisted living. Sarah can ask patients about their day, organize menus and transport, and regularly remind patients to take their medication. Judy, another AI-powered agent, helps patients with pre-operative procedures, for example by reminding patients about arrival time and locations, or advising on pre-op fasting or stopping medications”
“If you’re watching this video…”
Every blog has a final post. Today I had a flash fantasy of what mine might be and asked ChatGPT to write a short story based on the following scenario:
An elderly man has been posting to his blog for more than twenty years. More than 6,000 posts. It was a very personal journal and very few ever visited or read his posts.
Before dying he wrote a post he recorded a video saying he had hidden one hundred thousand dollars in cash somewhere in the world… and a clue to the location was hidden somewhere on his blog. In a single post, perhaps… or one some combination of posts. Or within one of the many videos or audio files on the blog.
Before his death he shared this information on a number of social media sites with no idea if anyone would notice or believe the story.
As these things sometimes do, his story went viral and his blog was deluged with people from all over the world, searching for clues to the location of the fortune.
Prior to his death he set up a trust to cover the expense of maintaining his blog.
This could be a story about one person’s search or the story-line could follow a number of different people. Lots of ways to go with this. Good luck.
Apple Intelligence and ChatGPT
Like most iPhone users, I’ve never found Siri a particularly useful tool. I’ll use it to send a message or create a reminder or set a timer, but most tasks are too much for it. Enter ChatGPT, which can handle almost any task.
Using Siri in conjunction with ChatGPT seems to be the best of both worlds: smooth integration with the Apple operating systems, and all of the power of ChatGPT. This video provides some excellent examples.
1. Summarize and Get Info From PDF Documents
2. Summarize and Ask Questions In Numbers
3. Ask About Photos
4. Summarize Whole Email Conversations
5. Ask About Locations In Maps
6. Combine Image Playground and Copy Subject
7. Fact-Check Documents and Presentations
8. Create Sample Data
9. Figure Out What You Forgot
10. Help Answering Questions in Email and Messages
Sora
Sora is “an AI-powered platform that generates videos based on text prompts. It enables users to create visually engaging and dynamic video content efficiently. Sora integrates advanced generative AI technologies to produce high-quality animations, visuals, and video effects, often using just natural language descriptions. This tool is particularly aimed at creators, marketers, educators, and anyone looking to simplify video production while maintaining professional quality.”
New AI tools are coming faster than I can properly try out. The short videos below were created using a prompt of “an old man sitting on the tailgate of an old pickup truck, playing a ukulele.” For Barb the Gardener, I prompted “a yellow tulip with a butterfly on one of the petal, slowing flapping its wings.”
