HeyJaredDan’s Media & AI Sandwich
Exploring the evolution of AI and its impacts on media and society
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How to use AI to make better slide decks (opens the original)
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Hire me! I have some availability left between now and Christmas. If you’d like me to come and run a session with your team on how to make more effective use of AI, drop me a line.Like Evan Shapiro (who used a meticulously constructed PowerPoint slide to pivot his career) and Russell Davies (who literally wrote the book on the topic), I believe the h
An introduction to AI agents (opens the original)
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Over the past 18 months, ‘AI agent’ has all but replaced ‘chatbot’ and ‘AI assistant’ in the AI product branding lexicon1, with many of the world’s most popular apps and websites trumpeting the addition of an agent of some description.But what does the term really mean? And do any of the products badged as such live up to the hype?Dan’s Media & AI Sandwich
Which app is best for talking instead of typing? (opens the original)
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I had my first bout of RSI twenty-five years ago and have had to manage the amount of time I spend typing ever since. Dictation is the obvious answer but the tools I tried when I was working at the BBC, built on hard-coded rules and pronunciation dictionaries, weren’t up to snuff.Machine learning changed that. Train an AI model on huge volumes of audio and you get something probabilistic rather than rule-bound, which copes far better with variance in pronunciation, pacing and ambient noise. Add
How good are the latest AI video models at faking physics? (opens the original)
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Today’s AI video models don’t understand the laws of physics. They predict pixels (and increasingly audio) based on patterns in their training data.This can result in videos featuring anatomical oddities and objects suddenly appearing/disappearing or not respecting the laws of gravity. AI companies are busy developing ‘world models’, trained to learn physical laws, like gravity and object permanence, but today’s video models have got increasingly good at faking it.To assess how good, I asked six
Update on my AI predictions for 2026 (opens the original)
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In January I made 16 AI predictions for 2026, published in three parts.Halfway through the year, and before I head off on holiday (your inbox will be sandwich-free for the next few weeks), it’s time for a check-in.1.) AI assistants will increasingly compete on how well they know you, not what they can doWhat did I predict? “I ex
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