Reviews — AMT Lab @ CMU

Brett Ashley Crawford, Ph.D.

Co-Intelligence Offers a Model for Integrating GenAI Into Your Work

Co-Intelligence Offers a Model for Integrating GenAI Into Your Work

Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with Artificial Intelligence by Ethan Mollick, offers a balance of playfulness, thoughtful analysis, and clarifying frameworks for working with artificial intelligence. In this book review, Dr. Brett Ashley Crawford shares a summary of what you will find in the text and a list to grow your bookshelf to better understand the opportunities and costs of Generative AI as it infiltrates our devices, work, and life

NotebookLM: A Reliable Knowledge Partner

NotebookLM: A Reliable Knowledge Partner

Artificial intelligence is making headlines every day, but how can we, as cultural workers, use AI ethically and effectively in our jobs? While large LLMs like OpenAI offer workers AI assistance, they come with a significant impact on the environment, hallucinations, bias, and ethical concerns regarding copyright. Smaller LLM tools solve some of these issues. The following review analyzes NotebookLM, a Google experiment, that i particularly useful tool for researchers, students, and other knowledge workers engaged in complex information.

Building Your Tech Stack: Otter.ai Review

Building Your Tech Stack: Otter.ai Review

Otter.ai is an AI-based audio transcriber. It offers both real-time transcription and asynchronous and has a high accuracy rating. This tool could save time and resources in your organization.

Notion: Task Management and Knowledge Management Combined

Notion: Task Management and Knowledge Management Combined

The web is overflowing with solutions for our personal and business productivity. As a busy professional and tech early adopter, many productivity tools have entered and exited my hard drives and operating systems over time. The good news from the pandemic (if you want to look at the silver lining) is a focus on improving personal and business project management tools. A newer solution called Notion allows for a free flow of thought in a wiki combined with a detailed framework of databases, offering a fantastic solution for the creative sector, from artists to museums or performing arts organizations, who want to archive their work while planning forward.