In A(i) Nutshell

Andrew Miles Davis answers eleven randomly generated questions in his favourite monthly format. On the AI side, he says the job he would be most nervous about AI doing is any role where a wrong answer lands on him, because AI will never care if it gets it wrong, so it can advise him but never decide. He also says Apple is the brand he most wants to see fix its AI, since anyone in the Apple ecosystem would benefit, and he adds that he is fine with the hardware but not the prices. On the personal side, he tells the story of being given the honeymoon suite at a hotel in Portugal, shares what a ten day silent Vipassana retreat with no phone was really like, and recalls a stranger on a beach telling him he was a fantastic dad. Other answers cover the best domain name he knows of, the fictional worlds he would visit for a week, why he refuses to pay full price for a car, and the ridiculous event he would add to the Olympics. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for one of these unscripted, unfiltered episodes every month alongside daily ten-minute AI insight.  

Andrew Miles Davis covers a week of AI news that mixes useful new features with some uncomfortable warnings. He leads with ChatGPT's new Intelligent UI, which decides how best to answer and can show interactive results while it is still researching in the background. He also covers Google's Playground, which lets you describe a game in plain English and share or publish it, though for now it is limited to adults in the US. Andrew then covers the story of a California woman who spent five and a half hours on the phone with a scammer using a cloned version of her daughter's voice, sending $5,400 in four transfers before discovering her daughter was at work. He explains why he has agreed a safety question with his own family that only they would know. Other stories include an update to Meta's Muse that builds a page on every person in your life, including people who never signed up, Audioball's plan for interactive audiobook stories where you can talk to the characters, and an author whose book on AI and truth was found to contain 26 quotes that did not stand up after AI tidied his original wording. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for the AI news that matters to marketers, every Friday in ten minutes.  

Andrew Miles Davis uses a BBC story about a 21 year old graduate who spent £30,000 on a content creation degree to ask a bigger question about AI learning. If you spend hours mastering a tool that changes a month later, what exactly did you pay to learn? He argues that access to information and actual learning are not the same thing, and shows how skills turn into features, then buttons, then a single sentence, using infographics and elaborate prompt formulas as examples from his own 15 years of training. He introduces the disappearing tool test, which separates tool knowledge from transferable knowledge such as explaining problems, questioning answers, and knowing when your own judgement should override AI. He ties it back to his time at MySpace, where the platforms vanished but the problems of attention, understanding people, and selling survived. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for daily ten-minute episodes on what is actually worth learning.  

Andrew Miles Davis answers three questions from recent training sessions and keynotes. He starts with whether your next manager could be AI, concluding that it could handle functional work like allocating tasks, tracking performance, and analysing data, but that accountability is the real barrier, since you cannot discipline or hold an AI personally responsible when something goes wrong. He then explains how to make AI forget something you have told it, focusing on temporary chat modes found in ChatGPT, Claude, and Copilot, while warning that temporary does not necessarily mean no record exists, so confidential company information should never be treated as safe. He also mentions deleting saved memories in settings and asking the model not to remember as alternatives. The episode closes with the question he hears in almost every workshop, which single AI tool he would pick, and his answer that there is no single best tool, only the right tool for what you are trying to do. For him that means ChatGPT and Whisper Flow, for stylisation-heavy presentation work it would be Midjourney, and for video producers it would likely be Seedance. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for daily ten-minute episodes built around the questions real people are asking about AI right now.  

Andrew Miles Davis marks week 82 of Cool Tools Tuesday by revisiting Napkin AI, a visual graphics tool he first covered in episode two, which has found new relevance with a presentation feature. It asks how many slides you want, offers four options per slide, follows your chosen style as it goes, and gives more control than prompting a whole deck in Copilot or ChatGPT. He then covers Ahrefs' free AI visibility checker, long known for SEO, which shows how many times a brand is mentioned across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Copilot, AI Overviews and AI Mode, plus top topics, most cited domains and most popular pages, and he tests it on a company he trains for. The episode closes with GPT Watermark Remover, a free tool that detects and strips invisible characters such as zero-width spaces from text pasted out of AI chat tools, useful for anyone worried that hidden markers could trigger AI detection or cause formatting issues. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for three new tools every Tuesday with honest verdicts from someone testing them in real work.