Samuel (Sam) Pavin

@sampavin.bsky.social

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Marketer (B2B) by trade, entrepreneur and intrapreneur by passion. >For hire< Founding Director at Resumption | Board member at La French Tech Australia. French in Australia. Girl Dad. Sharing about Life, Marketing, Startups, and Technology.

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A photorealistic golden coffee mug filled with dark coffee, set against a deep black background. Soft steam curls upward from the mug, and the metallic surface reflects warm golden light, creating a luxurious, high-end atmosphere.
"While an AI can outperform human beings in a specific task, people, as Scharre writes, have a tendency for “mistaking performance for competence.” In other words, an AI can be very good at what it knows how to do. But the AI doesn’t know what it doesn’t know, and it also doesn’t know that it should know what it doesn’t know."
"While an AI can outperform human beings in a specific task, people, as Scharre writes, have a tendency for “mistaking performance for competence.” In other words, an AI can be very good at what it knows how to do. But the AI doesn’t know what it doesn’t know, and it also doesn’t know that it should know what it doesn’t know."
Written words, in black over a white background. The text reads: "If you know you can do better.. then do better."
Two cavemen, male, fighting each other with sticks and bones while, in the background, other yield spikes and randomly fashioned weapons.
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Text on a black background. The text reads: Marketing is 50% art, 50% science. And 100% listening to non-marketers tell you how to do your job.
Two posters of Fortune magazine covers. One featuring the portrait of a healthy unicorn wearing a hoodie and titled "The Age of Unicorns". The second, with a similar portrait but of a unicorn skeleton wearing a decaying hoodie and titled "The Age of Unicorpses".
Screenshot of a weather app displaying a current temperature of 34.2 degrees Celsius that apparently feels like 38.5 degrees Celsius.
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A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #166,494, Samuel (Sam) Pavin ‪@sampavin.bsky.social‬, joined on Jun 28, 2023"
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High-resolution image (AI generated) of a God of Death holding a sceptre/lance in his right hand, standing against a backdrop of dark clouds and yellow sky.
xkcd's Standards comic, but "standards" has been replaced with "twitters"
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