Megan Skalbeck

Megan traffics in words. Whether that’s spinning up a story on the blog or paring down a conversation on the podcast, it’s all elementary math in the end: She adds, subtracts, multiplies for effect, and divides for readability. When she’s not helping words live their most meaningful life, she’s usually in the woods, in the ocean, on a rock, or on the road.

Four Things to Know About GPT-4

By Megan Skalbeck / July 31, 2023 / Comments Off on Four Things to Know About GPT-4

On Tuesday, March 14, OpenAI released its latest machine learning model, GPT-4. While it hasn’t immediately rocked the world in the same way ChatGPT did, that’s mostly because there wasn’t a shiny new interface to go along with it. Trust us — it’s still incredibly exciting. Thing #1: Multimodality isn’t here yet Pre-launch, a lot…

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The Best AI Detection Tools of 2023—Or, When the Turing Test Just Won’t Cut It

By Megan Skalbeck / February 24, 2023 / Comments Off on The Best AI Detection Tools of 2023—Or, When the Turing Test Just Won’t Cut It

Spare me your philosophy-loving preamble and get to the AI detection tools → In 1950, the Turing Test was devised as a way of assessing whether a machine can “think.” In its original form, it described a situation in which an evaluator asks questions of two subjects, A and B. The evaluator knows one of…

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Jasper AI Review: Pricing, Examples, and Impressions

By Megan Skalbeck / February 8, 2023 / Comments Off on Jasper AI Review: Pricing, Examples, and Impressions

Before ChatGPT came along and turned everyone and their mother into AI armchair experts, Jasper was devouring the AI writing tool market. (It did just raise $125M in the fall of 2022, so it’s probably still doing okay—but then again, they are blowing insane amounts of money on their affiliate program by offering 30% LTV…

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How good are marketers at detecting AI content?

By Megan Skalbeck / January 20, 2023 / Comments Off on How good are marketers at detecting AI content?

AI content is everywhere. Let’s skip the speculation over how it’s going to change everything, why it’s ruining/saving society, and whether all creative work is going to be replaced by robots. The only question that matters: Can we actually identify AI content when we see it? That’s part of what we wanted to know when…

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The 4 Best AI-Powered Content Writing Services (plus 5 others that are *not* the best)

By Megan Skalbeck / December 15, 2022 / Comments Off on The 4 Best AI-Powered Content Writing Services (plus 5 others that are *not* the best)

There are way too many AI-powered content writing services on the market today to keep them all straight. The good news (or bad news, depending on how you look at it) is that the vast majority of them are the exact same. Here’s the deal: Nearly all of the best AI writing services are built…

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You’ve Got MLAI: When GPT-3 Goes Off the Metaphorical Rails

By Megan Skalbeck / September 27, 2022 / Comments Off on You’ve Got MLAI: When GPT-3 Goes Off the Metaphorical Rails

GPT-3is a machine learning model from OpenAI. It generates human-like text, based on an enormous dataset of existing content on the internet. When people talk about AI-generated content, they’re usually talking about GPT-3 or tools built on top of it. (Check out our Jasper AI review for a deep dive on one of those tools,…

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