AI Adventures

Just like human partners… Be careful choosing which AI to work with!

From the Information Age to the Knowledge Age

Don’t get me wrong! I am totally excited about the destiny of mankind with AI as its new co-pilot and partner in knowledge. I’m all in!

Fun Fact: When Gutenberg’s printing press (started being widely used) it impacted the job of the monks and scribes who had previously published books by handwriting! These were the original copywriters! At the time, the printing press was firmly opposed!

ChatGPT-3 has certainly earned its place in history but we are moving at warp speed beyond its original capabilities into something much, much more. For example, ChatGPT-3 rather than saying “subject not found” or “I have no knowledge of this” has a nasty little habit of making up answers to questions in a most convincing style, although they are dead wrong!

A Test Between ChatGPT and WriteSonic

Here’s an example: I started a business writing executive and technical resumes scientifically designed to resonate with human recruiters while scoring at the top of the ATS curve. I’ve decided to expand the business into executive and tech recruiting. I selected two candidates, ChatGPT and WriteSonic as potential partners in market development.

The Checklist

Using plain English, I gave each AI a simple but important task: “Prepare a detailed checklist of actions for insertion in the business plan.” This checklist will eventually become part of the Table of Contents. ” Both AI’s produced excellent material.

Business Plan – Easy-to-read Introduction for Each Step

Again, using plain English, I asked each AI to convert their checklist to an easy-to-read introduction for each checkpoint for use in the business plan. They both wrote great introductions and began expanding my checklist items into a detailed plan.

How Specifically Can You Help Me?

My final question was: “How can you as an AI help me to execute this plan?” Again, both produced excellent ideas for using their expertise, except ChatGPT-3 created this:

ChatGPT-3 Tells More than a Little Fib!

I can help you by reviewing job postings and resumes: “Simply ask ChatGPT to help you find job postings that match your client’s needs or to help you identify resumes that meet the qualifications for the job you’re trying to fill.

Whoa!

This is impossible because ChatGPT-3 is a closed database that covers only stored data points before 2021, and ChatGPT-3 has no net access. Ergo, a serious misrepresentation. My understanding is this problem might go away when ChatGPT-4 is released, but meanwhile, this creates serious limitations for current subjects, for example, sports betting, horse racing, news analysis, events, and much more.

WriteSonic had similar promises but is also capable of delivering on them!

It is worth noting that WriteSonic thru its new ChatSonic product does not rely on a massive compiled database. In fact, it doesn’t even have a database and is designed much differently. Its coding allows it to travel into libraries throughout the world via the net and to search news and publications in real-time in order to reply to human language queries. Its also a whiz-bang at writing computer code in many different languages. I am using WriteSonic to write code for games and other applications with impressive results. The key here is good prompt engineering.

If you enjoyed this article and would like free access to WriteSonic you can use the link below. I would suggest you go straight away to using their new ChatSonic product as its in a league of its own! Here’s the link: WriteSonic

Tips for a Disruptive Cover Letter

A clever and powerful strategy for writing a cover letter that will get you interviewed!

I decided to share this video because JT is a thought leader in career counseling and her comments and ideas are spot on. I agree completely with her thought process in this excellent presentation on cover letters, with only two exceptions.

JT believes that the cover letter is more important than the resume… my exception is that unless it’s a referral, chances are slim that you will even talk to a recruiter unless your resume has passed scrutiny from both ATS and the recruiter. It is at this control point, when you have hit the radar, that the cover letter takes the leading role. My other exception is to point out that the clever and powerful strategy JT proposes, only works for a specific application, and again, you will need your resume for your ticket to ride. (interview) 🙂

How to run your Natural Gas Furnace when the power goes out! Safe. Cheap.

If you heat your house with natural gas, this simple, and very inexpensive solution to winter power outages (as little as $200) may some day save your life! 

Few people realize they can still have heat and normal functioning of their natural gas furnace, even when the electric power goes off, for almost nothing! 

Consider: Outside temperatures are at zero with windchill factors of -17 below zero, and snow piling up. The power goes out and stays out. You try to wait it out only to have the water pipes between two inside walls and the outside wall freeze, burst, and eventually (when heat returns) thaw. You  discover this when water starts appearing everywhere, costing tens of thousands of dollars in property damage and repair costs. (Running a light stream of water thru faucets doesn’t always work)

Two miles away, barely able to sleep in the cold and eventually catching pneumonia, Uncle Bob faces lost work. Meanwhile your senior neighbor next door, tries to use the oven to stay warm, and is later found dead, a victim of carbon monixide poisoning. 

Someone across town burns his house down and all personal possessions with it, while trying to use candles for heat.

Alternate outcome: For you, your wife and kids, and your mother-in-law, its life as usual. A nice warm home with the furnace cycling off and on and keeping you comfortable in complete safety while you wait for the storm to end. You invite the neighbor over to stay warm and open up your guest room, and she doesn’t freeze to death.

Total cost for your enjoyment of life-saving central heating with this emergency power setup… if you live in a community that allows the home owner to do this very minor modification can be as little as $200. Be sure to check on your local code. Possible variances include a requirement to have your work inspected, or a requirement to have an electrician do the work, or a requirement for specific hardware. This would add slightly to your cost. 

Here is a diagram of how it works:

Using an auto battery and an inverter you have no fumes and a setup that is safe to use inside. Depending on battery selected, you can run your furnace for about one or two days, or if you charge the battery by either using your car or solar, you could last indefinitely. 2000 watt inverters can be purchased for less than $150.

Please share this article with friends and loved ones who live in a cold climate. If you would like a parts list and video with step by step instructions, just request by emailing me at [email protected] with subject line: parts list

A Note About the Video: It was created for free by Artificial Intelligence! I originally created this content as a written article for social media distribution. AI read the article and produced the video, including the audio, with just a couple of clicks in a few minutes!

Recently I have developed a keen interest in many different forms of AI, and now, I am completely hooked! For example, I uploaded my article (there is a link above to the text version) and the AI, in this case Pictory AI, did virtually everything on its own.

I had a choice of male/female voices with a wide range of accents and a music library of tens of thousands of songs. The entire process was fun, rapid, and free! I would encourage anyone to learn about this amazing, easy to use, technology. To learn more, you can sign up for a free account, the exact same setup I used for the video you just watched. In fact, after I made the video, I signed up for an affiliate agreement

I would encourage you to try out the free account, and if you decide to upgrade to a paid account I will receive some credit, so it’s a win/win! Here’s the link:

Pictory AI – Video Marketing made easy!

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Your Resume: What to Include, What to Leave Out!

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A Note About the Video: It was created for free by Artificial Intelligence! I originally created this content as a written article for social media distribution. AI read the article and produced the video, including the audio, with just a couple of clicks in a few minutes!

Recently I have developed a keen interest in many different forms of AI, and now, I am completely hooked! For example, I uploaded my article (there is a link above to the text version) and the AI, in this case, Pictory AI, did virtually everything on its own.

I had a choice of male/female voices with a wide range of accents and a music library of tens of thousands of songs. The entire process was fun, rapid, and free! I would encourage anyone to learn about this amazing, easy to use, technology. To learn more, you can sign up for a free account, the exact same setup I used for the video you just watched. In fact, after I made the video, I signed up for an affiliate agreement

I would encourage you to try out the free account, and if you decide to upgrade to a paid account I will receive some credit, so it’s a win/win! Here’s the link:

Pictory AI – Video Marketing made easy!

Interested in LiDAR?

Consider career opportunities within the red-hot Pittsburgh Tech environment.

Western Pennsylvania is on the move and emerging as a tech powerhouse! 

Pittsburgh is now ranked #13, up from #23, in the world’s top 100 emerging ecosystems via tech startups. This jump in 2022 ratings is primarily the result of big exits (move from private to public) by local companies such as Duolingo, Aurora, Stronghold Digital Mining, and Cognition Therapeutics.  

Pittsburgh is 2nd only to Detroit in terms of leading the autonomous driving industry. This breakout position was achieved in part because of area-leading universities such as Mellon and the University of Pittsburgh who participate strategically and collaboratively within a coordinated regional plan shepherded by the Regional Industrial Development Corporation. (RIDC)

“We’re the number three center in the country in terms of jobs, and we’re number one in technology. We have 6300 jobs in the autonomous vehicle sector and an additional 8.604 in indirect tech.”  – Donald F Smith Jr., Pres. RIDC. Sep 2021 

Note: In the 4th quarter of 2022 Pittsburgh-based ARGO which was backed by Ford and Volkswagen to the tune of $1 billion was notified operations would be closed and absorbed by Ford. Reportedly, a portion of the footprint will remain in Pittsburgh along with about 650 jobs, although this could be subject to change. 

Developments in complex robotics and autonomous driving bring us to the subject of career opportunities connected to LiDAR. 

Lidar is commonly used to make high-resolution maps, with applications in surveying, geodesy, geomatics, archaeology, geography, geology, geomorphology, seismology, forestry, atmospheric physics, laser guidance, airborne laser swath mapping (ALSM), and laser altimetry. Some of the evolving uses and applications of LiDAR include:

Drones

The use cases for LiDAR drones in inspection and other infrastructure fields are obvious. From military applications such as target identification to surveying a construction site, and from measuring the amount of vegetation growing around a power line, drones with a LiDAR payload can greatly reduce both the time and cost of a manual survey or inspection. 

By deploying a drone equipped with a LiDAR sensor, companies can take more accurate aerial readings — creating 3D models with centimeter-level accuracy and detecting features that would be invisible to less sophisticated methods. 

Self-driving cars

Fully autonomous cars are edging closer to reality, driven by advanced sensors that can avoid a crash before it happens. Leading the charge in this area is LIDAR, a light-sensing technology that creates a 3-D map of a car’s surroundings using a laser and receiver. 

Note: It is clear that redundancies in a sensor network are necessary to ensure the safety of vehicles with automated driving functions. None of the available sensor technologies including LiDAR and special cameras will enable autonomous driving on their own.

Military

Mine sweeping, the process of clearing mines from harbors and the open ocean is extremely dangerous. The US Navy’s development of robots directed by LiDAR is just one of many military applications that have created engineering and software development opportunities with scores of military contractors. Similar projects are underway for ground force clearing applications.

Other

Autonomous Machinery
Scanning buildings for quality control, 
Farming with precision agriculture, 
Industrial inspection,
Monitoring construction projects, 
Mining,
Exploring underwater bathymetry, 
Uncovering lost cities, 
Predicting flooding before it happens, 
Remote project inspection,
Space and planetary exploration.

Popular software skillsets for a career in LiDAR. 

Based on a review of the skill requirements listed by 50 Pittsburgh based companies currently hiring, C++ and Python appeared most frequently.

Popular LiDAR Job Titles 

These are recent job opportunities in the Pittsburgh/Western PA Region:

Engineers:
Perception Software Engineer (Aerospace)
Robotics Software Engineer
Robotics Engineer (Perception)
Electrical Engineer (Robotics)
Embedded Systems Engineer
Software Engineer (Algorithms)
Software Engineer (Machine Learning)
System Software Engineer
Software Engineer (Computer Vision)
Firmware Engineer
Simulation Engineer
Modeling and Simulation Engineer (Autonomous Vehicle)
Electronics Engineer (Autonomous Heavy Machinery) 

Technicians:
LiDAR Technician
Project Support Technician
Systems and Test Technician
Reality Capture LiDAR Technician
3D Capture Technician and Modler
Geospatial Technician – Topographic/Bathymetric LiDAR
Indoor Survey Technician LiDAR
UAV Land Development Survey Manager

A Special Offer from the Author

Would you like to know how competitive you are for one of the above opportunities? If you have experience in any of the above areas and are interested in a new career opportunity, I am currently offering to run an ATS scan against your resume for your area of interest, and provide you with your ATS score as well as my personal review and analysis of your resume, at no cost, ie free! 


This free offer is only good until such time my workflow overwhelms my ability to keep up!

Just send your resume and mention one of the above job titles to my personal email: [email protected]

My review/analysis is written personally by myself and on average runs about 10 pages. There is enough valuable information to serve as a blueprint for your next resume.  If you decide you would like for me to draft a new resume for you, my pricing for a complete package including your Linkedin profile can be found here: https://sslduck.com/faq  

Prepare to be surprised!

Winning the Retail Store Manager Interview

Retail Store Manager

How to prepare for your interview using a smart strategy that will get you hired!

You Need These Two Things Before Each Interview

Take these actions to win your “Retail Store Manager” interview! Research the company you are going to interview so that you can translate that information into a highly effective interview. Know in advance the questions the interviewer is most likely to ask and be ready with great answers for those questions.

Before we get started, I want to talk about what makes a great answer. It’s simply this: a great answer is a result of having researched the company you are interviewing and knowing what answer they are looking for within the interview. 

Continue reading “Winning the Retail Store Manager Interview”

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