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Exploring generative AI capabilities

Exploring generative AI capabilities

Discover the diverse capabilities of generative AI, from creating content to enhancing organizational functions across various media types.

“While text-generating chatbots such as ChatGPT have been receiving outsize attention, generative AI can enable capabilities across a broad range of content, including images, video, audio, and computer code. And it can perform several functions in organizations, including classifying, editing, summarizing, answering questions, and drafting new content.”—What every CEO should know about generative AI

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Your AI agents need a water cooler

Coordination is a property of the room, not the org chart. What that means when your coworkers are agents.

On the death of the author and the birth of the detector

Why worrying about AI authorship is lazier, and more prejudiced, than it looks.

The work of being available now

A book on AI, judgment, and staying human at work.

The practice of work in progress

Practical essays on how work actually gets done.

Did the state change? A simple test for whether work actually happened

Either something exists now that did not exist before, or it does not. A simple test for whether work actually happened, and what changes when you build your systems so they can't record anything else.

How to manage content for multiple clients without flattening their voices

How to manage content for multiple clients without their voices blurring into one house style: a workspace and a voice profile per client, batchable stages, and approval buffers.

Why does AI writing sound generic? It has nothing to work with

Why does AI writing sound generic? Because the model has none of your perspective, examples, constraints, or stakes to work with. The fix is interview-first, not better adjectives.

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Streamline your business operations with Sintra AI, the all-in-one platform designed to enhance automation and optimize efficiency effortlessly.

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Explore why 67% of American tech workers are drawn to unionization, revealing key differences across major companies like Intuit, Apple, and Tesla.