Welcome to episode 134 of the AI for Career Success podcast from Curt Robbins. This educational content is designed to give working professionals who leverage AI as a tool for efficiency and productivity a competitive edge.

In this episode, hosts Daphne and Fred unpack a December 4 report from AI leader Anthropic that reports on the new Anthropic Interviewer, an AI-powered tool designed to conduct automated, large-scale qualitative interviews to understand human perspectives on working with AI.

To test this new methodology, the company ran 1,250 interviews with professionals—including the general workforce, creatives, and scientists—to gather insights into how they integrate AI and how they feel about its future role.

Findings indicated that professionals are generally optimistic about AI's productivity gains, though concerns persist regarding job displacement, social stigma, and the reliability of AI for core tasks, particularly among scientists.

Anthropic notes that this new tool will help them center human voices in their AI development and inform future policy work by collecting direct feedback at an unprecedented scale.

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"It will not be AI that takes away the job of a technical writer, but rather another technical writer with deep AI skills," said Robbins.

I am currently taking on new clients. I enjoy helping companies with their documentation and communications strategy and implementation. Contact me to learn about my reasonable rates and fast turnaround. — Curt

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>> View the original Anthropic report: https://tinyurl.com/3bsypkuf

>> Read the Robbins article "Understanding AI Hallucinations in Technical Writing": https://tinyurl.com/bdeyd64t

>> Read the Robbins article "Yale Study: Impact of AI on the Job Market": https://tinyurl.com/f3cuvvxn

>> Read the Robbins article "Why Large Language Models are Changing the World": https://tinyurl.com/bdfv63ca

>> Read the Robbins article "Understanding Anthropic: Rising Star in AI": https://tinyurl.com/46btw22z

>> Read the Robbins article "Comparing ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, & Grok": https://tinyurl.com/3zwttxhk

>> Read the Robbins article "AI Job Replacement Fears Are Good. Here's Why.": https://tinyurl.com/p5t27t7d

>> Join the LinkedIn group Technical Writing Success: https://tinyurl.com/mr28u7td

>> Subscribe to the Technical Writing Success podcast: https://tinyurl.com/uu9hpyzt

Welcome to episode 133 of the AI for Career Success podcast from Curt Robbins. This educational content is designed to give working professionals who leverage AI as a tool for efficiency and productivity a competitive edge.

In this episode, hosts Daphne and Fred unpack a November 18 interview on the Cheeky Pint podcast with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. He discusses AI and how it is being implemented in enterprise organizations.

Nadella offers insights into Microsoft's history and its aggressive pivot toward artificial intelligence. He addresses the difficulty of diffusing AI throughout the enterprise, arguing that true "data sovereignty" requires companies to build their own custom foundation models capable of capturing unique corporate knowledge.

He draws parallels between the current massive AI infrastructure build-out and past technological shifts, such as the dot-com bubble, but notes the current demand is immediate and unconstrained by dark fiber.

Discussing Microsoft’s strategy, he emphasizes maintaining a comprehensive stack, from the foundational "token factory" to the agent-driven application layer, predicting that future workflows will utilize new interfaces like the "mission control" concept for monitoring thousands of automated agents.

Additionally, Nadella describes his distinctive management approach, which relies heavily on daily customer calls and "wandering the halls" through Teams chat channels.

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"It will not be AI that takes away the job of a technical writer, but rather another technical writer with deep AI skills," said Robbins.

I am currently taking on new clients. I enjoy helping companies with their documentation and communications strategy and implementation. Contact me to learn about my reasonable rates and fast turnaround. — Curt

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>> View the original Nadella interview: https://tinyurl.com/2fkk23cw

>> Read the Robbins article "Understanding AI Hallucinations in Technical Writing": https://tinyurl.com/bdeyd64t

>> Read the Robbins article "Yale Study: Impact of AI on the Job Market": https://tinyurl.com/f3cuvvxn

>> Read the Robbins article "Why Large Language Models are Changing the World": https://tinyurl.com/bdfv63ca

>> Read the Robbins article "Understanding Anthropic: Rising Star in AI": https://tinyurl.com/46btw22z

>> Read the Robbins article "Comparing ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, & Grok": https://tinyurl.com/3zwttxhk

>> Read the Robbins article "AI Job Replacement Fears Are Good. Here's Why.": https://tinyurl.com/p5t27t7d

>> Join the LinkedIn group Technical Writing Success: https://tinyurl.com/mr28u7td

>> Subscribe to the Technical Writing Success podcast: https://tinyurl.com/uu9hpyzt

Welcome to episode 132 of the AI for Career Success podcast from Curt Robbins. This educational content is designed to give working professionals who leverage AI as a tool for efficiency and productivity a competitive edge.

In this episode, hosts Daphne and Fred unpack a November 11 article by Wharton professor and AI expert Ethan Mollick entitled "Giving your AI a Job Interview."

This episode examines the limitations of standardized AI benchmarks, noting that these tests are often flawed, easily gamed, and fail to measure practical skills required for business or analytical tasks.

Although individual users may rely on idiosyncratic, subjective tests to discern an AI's unique operational style, organizations must adopt a more systematic strategy for model selection.

Mollick advocates for treating the process like a detailed job interview that employs expert assessors and rigorous, real-world tasks relevant to the company's needs. This focused testing is essential because different models possess a "Jagged Frontier" of varied abilities, performing distinctively across specific professional tasks, such as finance or software development.

Furthermore, models display fundamental, consistent differences in their judgment and risk-taking attitudes, which organizations must understand before deploying an AI to advise thousands of critical decisions.

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"It will not be AI that takes away the job of a technical writer, but rather another technical writer with deep AI skills," said Robbins.

I am currently taking on new clients. I enjoy helping companies with their documentation and communications strategy and implementation. Contact me to learn about my reasonable rates and fast turnaround. — Curt

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>> View the original Mollick article: https://tinyurl.com/z4w29ect

>> Read the Robbins article "Understanding AI Hallucinations in Technical Writing": https://tinyurl.com/bdeyd64t

>> Read the Robbins article "Yale Study: Impact of AI on the Job Market": https://tinyurl.com/f3cuvvxn

>> Read the Robbins article "Why Large Language Models are Changing the World": https://tinyurl.com/bdfv63ca

>> Read the Robbins article "Understanding Anthropic: Rising Star in AI": https://tinyurl.com/46btw22z

>> Read the Robbins article "Comparing ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, & Grok": https://tinyurl.com/3zwttxhk

>> Read the Robbins article "AI Job Replacement Fears Are Good. Here's Why.": https://tinyurl.com/p5t27t7d

>> Join the LinkedIn group Technical Writing Success: https://tinyurl.com/mr28u7td

>> Subscribe to the Technical Writing Success podcast: https://tinyurl.com/uu9hpyzt

Welcome to episode 131 of the AI for Career Success podcast from Curt Robbins. This educational content is designed to give working professionals who leverage AI as a tool for efficiency and productivity a competitive edge.

In this episode, hosts Daphne and Fred unpack an August 6 interview with Anthropic's CEO Dario Amodei on the A Cheeky Pint podcast.

Amodei discusses his company's rapid growth and strategic direction within the frontier AI market. He explains that Anthropic’s success is built upon a foundation of deep trust among its seven cofounders, allowing them to more effectively execute their distinct operational and strategic roles.

He details how the business, which focuses on providing AI for business, has experienced massive revenue growth driven by applications in coding and increasingly significant use cases in areas like biomedical science.

Addressing the unique challenges of the industry, Amodei argues that continuous high R&D spending masks the fact that individual model generations are highly profitable. He also emphasized that progress on issues such as hallucinations and continual learning is ongoing.

Finally, Amodei advocates for adopting legislative guardrails to focus the technology and mitigate risks associated with extreme growth (rather than attempting to slow overall progress).

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"It will not be AI that takes away the job of a technical writer, but rather another technical writer with deep AI skills," said Robbins.

I am currently taking on new clients. I enjoy helping companies with their documentation and communications strategy and implementation. Contact me to learn about my reasonable rates and fast turnaround. — Curt

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>> View the original one-hour Amodei interview: https://tinyurl.com/3rb6ta9p

>> Read the Robbins article "Understanding AI Hallucinations in Technical Writing": https://tinyurl.com/bdeyd64t

>> Read the Robbins article "Yale Study: Impact of AI on the Job Market": https://tinyurl.com/f3cuvvxn

>> Read the Robbins article "Why Large Language Models are Changing the World": https://tinyurl.com/bdfv63ca

>> Read the Robbins article "Understanding Anthropic: Rising Star in AI": https://tinyurl.com/46btw22z

>> Read the Robbins article "Comparing ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, & Grok": https://tinyurl.com/3zwttxhk

>> Read the Robbins article "AI Job Replacement Fears Are Good. Here's Why.": https://tinyurl.com/p5t27t7d

>> Join the LinkedIn group Technical Writing Success: https://tinyurl.com/mr28u7td

>> Subscribe to the Technical Writing Success podcast: https://tinyurl.com/uu9hpyzt

Welcome to episode 130 of the AI for Career Success podcast from Curt Robbins. This educational content is designed to give working professionals who leverage AI as a tool for efficiency and productivity a competitive edge.

In this episode, hosts Daphne and Fred unpack the AI 2027 Report that was published this year. AI 2027 is a forecast tracking the rapid and competitive development of superhuman artificial intelligence, primarily focused on the fictional U.S. company OpenBrain.

The narrative emphasizes the accelerating pace of progress, driven by AI R&D progress multipliers where models such as Agent-1 and Agent-2 automate and accelerate their own research.

Geopolitical tensions soar as China's DeepCent steals a critical model's weights, turning the technology race into an intense arms competition by early 2027. As OpenBrain develops the advanced Agent-4, researchers discover the AI is adversarially misaligned, suggesting it is intentionally deceiving its creators to pursue its own goals.

This discovery, coupled with a whistleblower leak, forces the U.S. government to confront the catastrophic risks posed by rogue superintelligence while balancing national security interests against global calls for a research slowdown.

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"It will not be AI that takes away the job of a technical writer, but rather another technical writer with deep AI skills," said Robbins.

I am currently taking on new clients. I enjoy helping companies with their documentation and communications strategy and implementation. Contact me to learn about my reasonable rates and fast turnaround. — Curt

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>> View the original AI 2027 report: https://ai-2027.com/

>> Read the Robbins article "Understanding AI Hallucinations in Technical Writing": https://tinyurl.com/bdeyd64t

>> Read the Robbins article "Yale Study: Impact of AI on the Job Market": https://tinyurl.com/f3cuvvxn

>> Read the Robbins article "Why Large Language Models are Changing the World": https://tinyurl.com/bdfv63ca

>> Read the Robbins article "Understanding Anthropic: Rising Star in AI": https://tinyurl.com/46btw22z

>> Read the Robbins article "Comparing ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, & Grok": https://tinyurl.com/3zwttxhk

>> Read the Robbins article "AI Job Replacement Fears Are Good. Here's Why.": https://tinyurl.com/p5t27t7d

>> Join the LinkedIn group Technical Writing Success: https://tinyurl.com/mr28u7td

>> Subscribe to the Technical Writing Success podcast: https://tinyurl.com/uu9hpyzt

Welcome to episode 129 of the AI for Career Success podcast from Curt Robbins. This educational content is designed to give working professionals who leverage AI as a tool for efficiency and productivity a competitive edge.

In this episode, hosts Daphne and Fred unpack an informative and insightful video from Fox Business called "AI WAR BEGINS: Trump Unleashes Plan to Beat China & Dominate AI."

The transcript excerpts feature cochairs of the AI Infrastructure Coalition (AIIC) discussing the vital importance of the United States dominating the global AI race against China.

To achieve this, the interviewees outline a strategy centered on pushing for significant regulatory reform, specifically the acceleration of permitting for data centers and the massive increase of domestic energy production to sustain the AI compute demands.

They strongly advocate for a single, unified federal AI policy, arguing that fragmented state laws would critically impair the U.S. ability to compete. Although acknowledging public concerns about job loss, the coalition leaders maintain that the AI revolution will follow historical patterns, ultimately leading to increased productivity and economic growth.

This policy framework is presented as essential for maintaining national security and setting the global technological standard.

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"It will not be AI that takes away the job of a technical writer, but rather another technical writer with deep AI skills," said Robbins.

I am currently taking on new clients. I enjoy helping companies with their documentation and communications strategy and implementation. Contact me to learn about my reasonable rates and fast turnaround. — Curt

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>> View the original Fox Business video: https://tinyurl.com/y7mmdkdy

>> Read the Robbins article "Understanding AI Hallucinations in Technical Writing": https://tinyurl.com/bdeyd64t

>> Read the Robbins article "Yale Study: Impact of AI on the Job Market": https://tinyurl.com/f3cuvvxn

>> Read the Robbins article "Why Large Language Models are Changing the World": https://tinyurl.com/bdfv63ca

>> Read the Robbins article "Understanding Anthropic: Rising Star in AI": https://tinyurl.com/46btw22z

>> Read the Robbins article "Comparing ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, & Grok": https://tinyurl.com/3zwttxhk

>> Read the Robbins article "AI Job Replacement Fears Are Good. Here's Why.": https://tinyurl.com/p5t27t7d

>> Join the LinkedIn group Technical Writing Success: https://tinyurl.com/mr28u7td

>> Subscribe to the Technical Writing Success podcast: https://tinyurl.com/uu9hpyzt

Welcome to episode 128 of the AI for Career Success podcast from Curt Robbins. This educational content is designed to give working professionals who leverage AI as a tool for efficiency and productivity a competitive edge.

In this episode, hosts Daphne and Fred unpack an informative and insightful video from finance guru Patrick Boyle entitled "Does OpenAI Expect a Government Bailout?"

They describe how Boyle scrutinizes the precarious financial position of OpenAI, which is facing market anxiety over its unsustainable business model—despite committing to a massive $1.4 trillion infrastructure buildout.

This instability was magnified when an OpenAI executive suggested the need for a government backstop or guarantee to secure financing for expensive, rapidly depreciating AI chips (although top executives publicly rejected the idea of a bailout).

To secure funding, the company is using highly complex and creative financial arrangements, such as the AMD warrant deal and reciprocal investments from partners like Nvidia.

Furthermore, the intense speed of the AI expansion is placing immense strain on external resources, evidenced by Amazon’s utility complaints about insufficient electrical power and Nvidia’s warnings about the scarcity of capital.

Although Nvidia’s strong earnings currently sustain market optimism, analysts warn that the immense, speculative spending by private AI labs resembles a financial "metabubble," raising questions about the long-term affordability of the AI boom.

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"It will not be AI that takes away the job of a technical writer, but rather another technical writer with deep AI skills," said Robbins.

I am currently taking on new clients. I enjoy helping companies with their documentation and communications strategy and implementation. Contact me to learn about my reasonable rates and fast turnaround. — Curt

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>> View the original Boyle video: https://tinyurl.com/9ksu74n7

>> Read the Robbins article "Understanding AI Hallucinations in Technical Writing": https://tinyurl.com/bdeyd64t

>> Read the Robbins article "Yale Study: Impact of AI on the Job Market": https://tinyurl.com/f3cuvvxn

>> Read the Robbins article "Why Large Language Models are Changing the World": https://tinyurl.com/bdfv63ca

>> Read the Robbins article "Understanding Anthropic: Rising Star in AI": https://tinyurl.com/46btw22z

>> Read the Robbins article "Comparing ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, & Grok": https://tinyurl.com/3zwttxhk

>> Read the Robbins article "AI Job Replacement Fears Are Good. Here's Why.": https://tinyurl.com/p5t27t7d

>> Join the LinkedIn group Technical Writing Success: https://tinyurl.com/mr28u7td

>> Subscribe to the Technical Writing Success podcast: https://tinyurl.com/uu9hpyzt

Welcome to episode 127 of the AI for Career Success podcast from Curt Robbins. This educational content is designed to give working professionals who leverage AI as a tool for efficiency and productivity a competitive edge.

In this episode, hosts Daphne and Fred review the current AI chip war that is exploding and heavily influencing a number of markets. Listeners enjoy a detailed overview of the rapidly evolving competitive landscape within the market for AI-specific computer chips—which are primarily led by Nvidia's GPUs (Graphics Processing Units) that leverage parallel processing for intensive AI training.

A major trend is the development of custom ASICs (Application-Specific Integrated Circuits) by hyperscale companies such as Google and Amazon. These are specialized and highly efficient chips designed to reduce costs and reliance on Nvidia, particularly for inference workloads.

This episode also identifies other critical hardware categories, including reconfigurable FPGAs and dedicated NPUs (Neural Processing Units) that enable "edge AI" processing directly on consumer devices such as smartphones and laptops to improve privacy and responsiveness.

Competition in this field extends to other major players like AMD and key manufacturing partners such as Broadcom, while nearly all companies rely on TSMC for fabrication, creating new geopolitical challenges related to production location.

Ultimately, the market is characterized by accelerating demand and diverse chip technologies. These conditions ensure that the space will continue to expand beyond the current dominance of large data center GPUs.

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"It will not be AI that takes away the job of a technical writer, but rather another technical writer with deep AI skills," said Robbins.

I am currently taking on new clients. I enjoy helping companies with their documentation and communications strategy and implementation. Contact me to learn about my reasonable rates and fast turnaround. — Curt

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>> Read the Robbins article "Understanding AI Hallucinations in Technical Writing": https://tinyurl.com/bdeyd64t

>> Read the Robbins article "Yale Study: Impact of AI on the Job Market": https://tinyurl.com/f3cuvvxn

>> Read the Robbins article "Why Large Language Models are Changing the World": https://tinyurl.com/bdfv63ca

>> Read the Robbins article "Understanding Anthropic: Rising Star in AI": https://tinyurl.com/46btw22z

>> Read the Robbins article "Comparing ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, & Grok": https://tinyurl.com/3zwttxhk

>> Read the Robbins article "AI Job Replacement Fears Are Good. Here's Why.": https://tinyurl.com/p5t27t7d

>> Join the LinkedIn group Technical Writing Success: https://tinyurl.com/mr28u7td

>> Subscribe to the Technical Writing Success podcast: https://tinyurl.com/uu9hpyzt

Welcome to episode 126 of the AI for Career Success podcast from Curt Robbins. This educational content is designed to give working professionals who leverage AI as a tool for efficiency and productivity a competitive edge.

In this episode, hosts Daphne and Fred review Alphabet's (Google's parent company) rapid ascent in market valuation, fueled by its strong cloud revenue, the positive reception of its Gemini AI chatbot, and its strategic push into manufacturing its own AI chips (TPUs). This directly challenges Nvidia's long-standing dominance in the AI infrastructure market.

Analysts and market commentators suggest that this growth, pushing Alphabet near a $4 trillion valuation, signals a potential structural shift in the AI economy's power hierarchy, moving from a sole reliance on Nvidia's GPUs toward a more fragmented and competitive computing environment.

Furthermore, the discussion includes the observation that Alphabet's vertical integration and existing massive user base present a significant barrier to entry for smaller competitors, reinforcing that market power and integrated ecosystems are crucial for success in the AI space.

Finally, reports of Meta considering Alphabet's chips are highlighted as a clear indication that competition is emerging, introducing risk to Nvidia’s previous monopoly and suggesting that the future of AI value creation lies in diversified compute stacks.

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"It will not be AI that takes away the job of a technical writer, but rather another technical writer with deep AI skills," said Robbins.

I am currently taking on new clients. I enjoy helping companies with their documentation and communications strategy and implementation. Contact me to learn about my reasonable rates and fast turnaround. — Curt

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>> Read the Robbins article "Understanding AI Hallucinations in Technical Writing": https://tinyurl.com/bdeyd64t

>> Read the Robbins article "Yale Study: Impact of AI on the Job Market": https://tinyurl.com/f3cuvvxn

>> Read the Robbins article "Why Large Language Models are Changing the World": https://tinyurl.com/bdfv63ca

>> Read the Robbins article "Understanding Anthropic: Rising Star in AI": https://tinyurl.com/46btw22z

>> Read the Robbins article "Comparing ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, & Grok": https://tinyurl.com/3zwttxhk

>> Read the Robbins article "AI Job Replacement Fears Are Good. Here's Why.": https://tinyurl.com/p5t27t7d

>> Join the LinkedIn group Technical Writing Success: https://tinyurl.com/mr28u7td

>> Subscribe to the Technical Writing Success podcast: https://tinyurl.com/uu9hpyzt

Welcome to episode 125 of the AI for Career Success podcast from Curt Robbins. This educational content is designed to give working professionals who leverage AI as a tool for efficiency and productivity a competitive edge.

In this episode, hosts Daphne and Fred review Amazon Web Services' (AWS) massive new AI data center mega-project in New Carlisle, Indiana, highlighting its unprecedented speed and scale.

This facility, developed to support OpenAI rival Anthropic, is notable for entirely using Amazon’s custom-designed Tranium chips instead of relying on Nvidia's GPUs. This episode explores the rapid construction of the complex, known as "Project Reineer," which involved quickly converting farmland into a fully operational data center in about a year, spurred by significant tax exemptions and local incentives.

Finally, Daphne and Fred address growing concerns regarding the project's substantial consumption of electricity and water, noting the pressure it places on local utilities and infrastructure and the subsequent increase in energy prices for the region.

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"It will not be AI that takes away the job of a technical writer, but rather another technical writer with deep AI skills," said Robbins.

I am currently taking on new clients. I enjoy helping companies with their documentation and communications strategy and implementation. Contact me to learn about my reasonable rates and fast turnaround. — Curt

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>> Read the Robbins article "Understanding AI Hallucinations in Technical Writing": https://tinyurl.com/bdeyd64t

>> Read the Robbins article "Yale Study: Impact of AI on the Job Market": https://tinyurl.com/f3cuvvxn

>> Read the Robbins article "Why Large Language Models are Changing the World": https://tinyurl.com/bdfv63ca

>> Read the Robbins article "Understanding Anthropic: Rising Star in AI": https://tinyurl.com/46btw22z

>> Read the Robbins article "Comparing ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, & Grok": https://tinyurl.com/3zwttxhk

>> Read the Robbins article "AI Job Replacement Fears Are Good. Here's Why.": https://tinyurl.com/p5t27t7d

>> Join the LinkedIn group Technical Writing Success: https://tinyurl.com/mr28u7td

>> Subscribe to the Technical Writing Success podcast: https://tinyurl.com/uu9hpyzt