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About Shelly Palmer

Shelly Palmer is the Professor of Advanced Media in Residence at the Newhouse School of Public Communications, the CEO of The Palmer Group, a consulting practice that helps Fortune 500 companies with tech strategy & solutions, and the co-founder of Metacademy, a free educational platform that teaches practical applications of blockchain, crypto, NFTs, Web3, and the metaverse.
Named LinkedIn's Top Voice in Technology, he covers tech and business for Good Day New York, is a regular commentator on CNN and CNBC, co-hosts the award-winning podcast Techstream with Shelly Palmer & Seth Everett, and writes the popular daily business blog, Think About This.

Shelly's Blog

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Generative AI for Executives Debuts

There is a profound difference between losing your job to a machine (which has been going on since the advent of automation) and losing your job to another person who has developed skills you have chosen not to develop – which is why I am thrilled to introduce our new, free, online course: Generative AI for Executives. Continue Reading →

ChatGPT Races to Create Value

On Thursday, taking a play out of the Salesforce AppExchange, Amazon Marketplace, or Apple App Store playbook, OpenAI announced ChatGPT Plug-ins, transforming the application into a platform. Continue Reading →

AI Won’t Take Your Job, People Will (Updated)

This essay was originally published on November 16, 2019. It was updated and republished on November 11, 2022. Adobe announced Firefly, its generative AI assistant, on March 21, 2023. If you want a clear example of the exponential pace of technological change, most of the capabilities I hypothesized (and many I did not think of) are features of Firefly. Continue Reading →

AI Ghostwriters Go to Work

An engaging open-world game is enriched with minute details that enhance a player's immersive experience, and a crucial component of this is ambient conversation. Every snippet of dialogue (referred to as a "bark") must be meticulously crafted by the game developers, which is a labor-intensive and intricate endeavor. Continue Reading →