Wednesday, July 29, 2026

Figuring out AI

Greetings from "Still figuring out what AI means for your business?", a webinar by Siobhan O'Sullivan for the Future Skills Organisation. The Australian Government sponsored the creation of a free "AI Governance & Adoption Starter Toolkit" to help small businesses learn about AI. 

The clever part of this is that it is not another tedious animated power-point slideshow training package. Instead  the toolkit has a primer to load into an AI tool (such as Claude). The AI then prompts the student for details of their views on AI, their business, and then guiding them through some small simple AI tasks they could try. 

The form of interaction reminds me of the tutor-bots I learned to build with IBM Watson a decade ago, but without the technical setup. Apart from being useful for small business, this is useful example of the sort of AI tutor which school, vocational and university educators could build themselves. The tool will be formally launched in August in Canberra by FSO.