Why Influencer Marketing Roles Are Rising While Creative Jobs Are Declining

A recent analysis of nearly 180 million global job postings from 2023 to 2025, by Henley Wing Chiu at Bloomberry, reveals an interesting split in labour market trends. Execution-focused, creative jobs are experiencing steep declines. For instance, in the two years covered by this analysis, computer graphic artist roles are down by 33%, writer roles … Continue reading Why Influencer Marketing Roles Are Rising While Creative Jobs Are Declining

The global footprint of generative AI

Recently, I came across the Cartography of Generative AI, a fabulous resource created by the Estampa group. Image source: https://cartography-of-generative-ai.net This resource shows how chatbots and other gen Ai interfaces are part of a dense, intricate and vast global system of physical resources, human labour, data flows, and economic structures. The right area of graph … Continue reading The global footprint of generative AI

Key points from OECD’s report on Generative AI and SMEs

A new report from the OECD sheds light on how more than 5,000 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) across seven countries (Austria, Canada, Germany, Ireland, Japan, Korea, and the UK) are engaging with generative AI. This is an important report because while SMEs form the backbone of most economies, much of the of the discussion … Continue reading Key points from OECD’s report on Generative AI and SMEs

When Generative AI Makes Us Smart vs. Average

It has been noted by many different people that large language models (LLMs) can, to a certain extent, democratise access to information. Because these models are trained on massive datasets, and use an intuitive prompt-and-response format, they enable users to quickly learn the basics on a given topic or, conversely, do a deep dive on narrow … Continue reading When Generative AI Makes Us Smart vs. Average

Using Generative AI to Produce and Analysing Qualitative Data (video)

Joss Winn and I delivered a session on “Using Generative AI to Produce and Analysing Qualitative Data”, as part of the SeNSS/ SENSS doctoral training partnership’s Generative AI in research scholar series. In this session, we explored: The role of Generative AI in developing interview questions The potential of Generative AI for conducting interviews Approaches … Continue reading Using Generative AI to Produce and Analysing Qualitative Data (video)

Helpful resources for generative AI newbies in academia

If you are an academic (including a PhD student) curious about the potential of generative AI (GenAI) in a university context, but not sure where to start, here are some helpful resources. About the technology Research shows that understanding GenAIs’ strengths and weaknesses is crucial to enable a critical approach to its use. So, my first set … Continue reading Helpful resources for generative AI newbies in academia

Conversations with Chat GPT: Convention over linguistic rules

While I warmly encourage everyone to get familiar with generative AI, I often suggest that they use it mostly for purposes where it doesn’t matter if the answer is correct or not. If one must use it in a context where accuracy matters, then I suggest using it only when we know the answer and can … Continue reading Conversations with Chat GPT: Convention over linguistic rules

Introduction to generative AI for PhD students (slides + video)

Earlier this month, I ran a brief “introduction to generative AI” session for PhD students and post-docs enrolled in the SeNSS/ SENSS doctoral training partnership. Here are the slides used in the session, and the video recording. https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/introduction-to-generative-ai-for-phd-students/276734708 Introduction to generative AI for PhD students from Ana Canhoto The session drew on my socio-technical framework for … Continue reading Introduction to generative AI for PhD students (slides + video)

How can we get Gen AI users to not fall asleep at the wheel?

Last month, I attended a training session, at Sussex, about Generative AI and assessment. We had to create a custom GPT for our modules and, then, use it to complete an assessment task for that module, using various levels and types of prompts. Afterwards, we marked the outputs and reflected on how “automatable” the different … Continue reading How can we get Gen AI users to not fall asleep at the wheel?

The AI Dancefloor revisited: adoption of Generative AI

Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (AZ) shared insights from interviews and surveys that they conducted with Fortune 500 companies about adoption of Generative AI. While we need to treat the AZ findings with care, because the company did not disclose details of the methodology and has vested interests in the information shared, the article still provides … Continue reading The AI Dancefloor revisited: adoption of Generative AI