That wasn’t supposed to rhyme.  Sigh.  Oh well, can’t go back.

One of the more common things that we hear from people (regarding AI chatbots like ChatGPT) is some version of -

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I tried to use ChatGPT to transcribe some audio files and it didn’t work. After doing some research, I found that I can use another OpenAI tool called Whisper but it looks too technical for me. Is there a...

A lot of times when we use AI tools like ChatGPT, we believe that we know the answer that we are looking for.  We’ll know it when we see it or whatever we tell ourselves.

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Can you help me understand why I would use NotebookLM over something like ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini?  I don’t want to make podcasts and I don’t see any other reason to consider it.~ Anonymous

Another prompting framework because, why not?

This one will hopefully be easy to remember for the right audience…

The framework is STAGE and here is the breakdown 

I really like the voice modes on some of the AI chatbots - i.e., ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and Copilot (none with Claude yet…).

Some of these are so weird, but then they work.  

I’ll open with, I haven’t tried this one.  And I probably won’t.  I do think that it is interesting, though.

Sometimes when we read something, the stories that the author uses to help clarify their message doesn’t land.  At all.