Hey Reader, I'm excited to share a new (free!) podcast episode β I sat down for 90 minutes with Zack Arnold, the founder of Optimize Yourself and an acclaimed film and television editor who's worked on shows like Empire, Burn Notice, Glee and Cobra Kai. π We talked about AI, the metaphors and explanations I've discovered that make advanced machine learning easy to visualize for everybody, and what's coming for film, tech and other industries in the next year. βHere's the full episode on the Optimize Yourself podcast.β By the way, Zack has some incredible credits and I'll be sharing more of his work in the coming months β but if you are a fellow child of the '80s or '90s, you will understand why appearing as a guest on a podcast that's also hosted actors from Karate Kid and Super Troopers is basically the pinnacle of my life's work π This month is all about learning AI fast.If you're one of the 500+ people who responded to our survey on Sunday, thank you so much for your insights. One of the biggest takeaways is that tens of thousands of IWAI readers are strapped for time, and want to learn AI as quickly as efficiently as possible. That's why we're doubling down on providing Fast, Actionable AI Knowledge β Without the Noise as part of our new Innovating with AI Insights membership. There are 7 articles and 6 private podcast episodes waiting for you when you start your free trial of Insights. After that, it's just $14/mo (price goes up after the next 70 members) for our best and most streamlined AI analysis and education. There's lots more to come, but for today, reply with the answer to this question: What's the #1 thing you want to learn about AI in the next 3 months? Reply now β I read every message. β Rob Howard |
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Hey Reader, I had a chance to chat with two big media outlets β Fortune and Mixergy β about AI consulting this week. A lot of people are shocked by the level of demand they're seeing for AI advisory work... but the results we're seeing from our students (which I'll be showing you a lot more of soon) line up with the seemingly wild headlines. β’ Fortune: AI consultants are being deployed as engineers and getting paid $900 per hour AI consultant Rob Howard told Fortune he wasnβt surprised at...
Hey Reader, Hard truth from last week's messy launch of GPT-5: being the best at training AI models doesn't automatically make you good at delivering consumer products. As I discussed with my AI Consultancy Project students yesterday, this disconnect between technical excellence and user experience creates chaos for the world's most popular companies, and introduces new opportunities for those of us guiding organizations through the AI revolution. The βAbrupt Transitionβ Problem OpenAI's...
Hey Reader, This week I'm digging into a question that comes up a lot among students β as well as among all my software engineer friends, many of whom have been coding for money for 20+ years. Are coders truly cooked as a result of AI? It's ironic, of course, that the first white-collar job to be replaced by AI is likely to be the job that many of AI's creators held for most of their careers. It also makes a lot of sense β the folks who are making large language models are coders themselves,...