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Feed Me! Feed Me! Your AI wants to be fed as much as you can give it. Unlike the most recent generations, most boomers (as in the full name, “baby boomers”), raised children to adulthood. It turns out this is great preparation for the new age of AI. You are used to hearing in one form or another “Feed Me!”. So, what’s the best diet for your favorite AI? In general, AI’s consume data. In every interaction you have with your AI it absorbs data about you in dimensions t

There is much ado about the use of pronouns in today’s society and business environments. Regardless of your preferences elsewhere the one you have to learn to embrace when venturing into the use of AI is the pronoun “We”. “WE” engenders many responses from boomers. Are you talking (or typing) to a person? The AI will make every attempt possible to convince you that you are. It will be chummy, funny, sensitive, reflective, thoughtful, and considerate with you in respon

One of the first questions you have to resolve when engaging your AI is whether it is better to talk or to type. As Shakespeare penned, THAT is the question. I have some practical suggestions, but first I cannot resist a farce on Hamlet's famous soliloquy from Act III, Scene 1. To talk or type. That is the question: Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of slow hunt and peck, Or to take arms against a sea of autocorrect And by talking aloud e

My name is James and I’m a boomer. Why should someone like me, who is an accomplished business executive, lifelong learner, and even has a computer science degree feel like he needs to open up his journey into AI as if I am introducing myself at an AA meeting? Part of me just doesn’t want to put in the effort to learn yet another technology just enough so that, technically speaking, I sound like a high schooler with one semester of Spanish visiting somewhere in Latin Ameri