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Alastair McDermott @WhatStrategy

I help businesses implement AI in a simple, practical way. 🌟 Listen to the podcast at » HumanSpark.ai 🌟

Joined December 2008
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Alastair McDermott@WhatStrategy
10 Dec 2025
We spent 2025 worrying about AI slop, misinformation, & hallucination, while peer-reviewed journals published fake data, and a fact-checked NYT bestseller from world's largest publisher got a central claim wrong by 4500X linkedin.com/pulse/misleadin…

Misleading AI Stories in 2025

Everyone's worried about AI slop, AI hallucinations, and misinformation. But the slop and misinformation that actually moved markets and changed business decisions this year came from peer-reviewed...

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With the demise of Claude, I'm now subcribed to ChatGPT Teams and Gemini via GWorkspace.
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Hey @AnthropicAI Claude is by far my favourite model & I love your ethos. I also just cancelled my subscription and won't be recommending my clients use Claude. "Due to unexpected capacity constraints, Claude is unable to reply to your message. Please try again later."
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I'd love to continue to use and recommend Claude, but if I can't use it, I can't use it. Lot of folks in the same boat. old.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/se…

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youtube.com/watch?v=604RwtjS… Are your most talented employees secretly becoming your biggest liability in the AI revolution? In this eye-opening episode of The AI-Powered Business Leader, host Alastair McDermott sits down with brand strategist Camille Moore t… bit.ly/4jvkxJB
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youtube.com/watch?v=jXxYJ2VE… Join us for an eye-opening conversation with AI ethics expert Tom Murphy on The AI-Powered Business Leader podcast. Tom will reveal the hidden ethical challenges and unintended consequences that business leaders need to understand when implementing AI. F…
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youtube.com/watch?v=0DZxfhGB… Many consultants are getting AI completely wrong - building complex solutions when simple ones would work better. Join Alastair McDermott as he chats with Michael Zipursky, CEO of Consulting Success. They will discuss practical approaches that are actual…
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Twitter: so long, and thanks for all the fish.
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youtube.com/watch?v=j8eSmJ_5… Why This Business Owner Says AI Will Change Everything (And How He's Proving It) Welcome to The AI-Powered Business Leader with Alastair McDermott. Today I speak with Ethan Wadsworth about his innovative use of AI in his manufacturing business.
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youtube.com/watch?v=FafU-9yU… Join host Alastair McDermott for a live recording of The AI-Powered Business Leader podcast, featuring special guest Heidi Araya, founder of BrightLogic, Heidi leverages her extensive background in process improvement to spearhead… bit.ly/3YGpAi5
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youtube.com/watch?v=7a9Se4q-… Join host Alastair McDermott for a live recording of The AI-Powered Business Leader podcast, featuring special guest Alvaro Melendez, founder of Crant Creativity and Technology. In this episode, we're cutting through the AI hyp… aipowered.biz
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15 Jul 2024
Recently, I interviewed @WhatStrategy about his experience podcasting. “You don't tend to get quick results when you start creating content,” said Alastair. “But we could address that problem if we turned what we were doing into a podcast..." x.com/John_Tyreman/status/18… 3/X

John Tyreman
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10 Jun 2024
As an expert, specialization is a key ingredient for becoming a recognized authority in your niche. But that’s only the beginning...
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youtube.com/watch?v=q70fQuB7… 🔴 LIVE NOW: Live Event: The Human Side of AI: Why Your Brain Fights Change (And How to Win) -- with Melina Palmer Are your employees secretly resisting AI adoption? Discover how understanding the quirks of human psychology can transform your organiza…
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youtube.com/watch?v=5mc6l2Ci… 🔴 LIVE NOW: Live Event: "Forget Use Cases: How AI is Rewriting the Rules of Business Value" Is it time to reevaluate how we are thinking about AI and business value? Join me, Alastair McDermott, as I host Jack Nugent on "The AI-Powered Business Leade…
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Forget Use Cases: How AI is Rewriting the Rules of Business Value -- with Jack Nugent x.com/i/broadcasts/1OwxWYeyB…
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I'm now streaming LIVE. Watch on: LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/alastairmcde… YouTube: youtube.com/TheRecognizedAut… Twitter: x.com/WhatStrategy #TheRecognized Authority #livestream
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It’s like learning to play chess by watching games without ever understanding the rules. LLMs mimic logical patterns they’ve seen but aren’t built to solve logic problems from first principles.
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The implicit nature of their computations can lead to errors when precise logical steps are required. LLMs can overfit to common language patterns. You can see a great example of this below, where every model fails a simple puzzle.
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To illustrate these points, here’s an example showing every major frontier model (i.e. the current state-of-the-art LLMs from OpenAI, Google, Anthropic and Meta) failing to reason through a simple problem: aipowered.biz/llms-and-reaso… aipowered.biz/llms-and-reaso…

LLMs and Reasoning - HumanSpark

Large language models (LLMs) like GPT-4 are not great with reasoning. In fact they often get very simple puzzles wrong. Let's dive into why this happens and what it means. Pattern Recognition vs....

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