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Episode 151 of the Sidecar Sync Podcast cover art featuring Amith Nagarajan and Mallory Mejias

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Fundamentals of AI, Part 2 | [Sidecar Sync Episode 151]

Summary: Intelligence is turning into a resource you can scale like electricity, and that shift changes what's actually worth your attention in the AI news cycle. In part two of their refreshed Fundamentals of AI series, Amith Nagarajan and Mallory...

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The Thomson Reuters lesson: Why Your Niche Data is Your AI Moat

Imagine a real estate professional looking for highly specific, county-level zoning regulations from two decades ago. They open a generic AI model...

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The Fluency Trap: Why AI Training Fails Without 'Immersion'

Anyone who has spent four years studying a language in high school knows the exact feeling of landing in a foreign country and realizing they cannot...

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The Pfizer Playbook: 3 Non-Technical Moves to Transform Your Association

Association leaders often approach new technology with a familiar playbook. They form a committee, draft a comprehensive request for proposals, hire...

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Episode 150 of the Sidecar Sync Podcast cover art featuring Amith Nagarajan and Mallory Mejias

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How Pfizer thinks about AI, Thomson 1.0, & Who's Behind Ox Alpha? | [Sidecar Sync Episode 150]

Summary: A drug company CEO just made the best case yet for why platform choice matters less than most associations think. Marking three years of...

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The Spirit Airlines Lesson: How Associations Can Monetize Hidden Data

When a company goes bankrupt, its physical assets are typically the first things auctioned off to pay creditors. When budget carrier Spirit Airlines...

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Beyond the Stochastic Parrot: Tuning AI for Original Association Research

A persistent critique of artificial intelligence is that the technology is nothing more than a sophisticated autocomplete. Critics often refer to...

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The Gorilla in the Room: How AI Cures the Association Multitasking Myth

There is a famous psychology experiment involving a video of a basketball court. Viewers are asked to watch the players moving around and count the...

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Episode 149 of the Sidecar Sync Podcast cover art featuring Amith Nagarajan and Mallory Mejias

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Spirit Airlines' Data Sale, the Model Too Powerful to Ship, & the Landlords of AI | [Sidecar Sync Episode 149]

Summary: When Spirit Airlines went bankrupt, its planes and gates weren't the only assets on the auction block — Google paid $10 million for its...

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