Unlike crypto and the latest fads, artificial intelligence (AI) seems to be the most significant technology breakthrough since the Web. How do we know? Because it's already affecting you or your customers, and if you're not already preparing, your competitors certainly are. Here's what we think you should understand about it as it unfolds...
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Most multinationals are rushing to implement AI-powered chatbots as the simplest way to demonstrate they're doing something about AI. And that's fair, as we all recently discovered the power of a fluid (yet automated) conversation with an AI agent in one way or another. What we
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The very successful "Platformer" newsletter from Casey Newton (270,000 subscribers) leaves Substack for the nonprofit, open-source Ghost platform. Why Platformer is leaving SubstackWe’ve seen this movie before — and we won’t stick around to watch it play outPlatformerCasey Newton Having transitioned our much more modest online
You know I'm monitoring quite a few weak signals in various markets. If I'm not a prospectivist, futurist, or even a trend analyst, it's something I trained into a long time ago as it allows me to feel out for long-term changes in a
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As most of you have probably been using ChatGPT for a while now, you have become accustomed to giving very elaborate commands to this tool. In contrast, you probably couldn't avoid being stupefied by how much Siri or Alexa are still limited. Relatively simple commands involving two or
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The New York Times has launched legal actions against OpenAI and Microsoft to claim copyright rights on how ChatGPT was trained. This is not the first trial in that regard, but it promises to be momentous as it will mostly establish jurisprudence in the U.S. for what can be
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Influencers being replaced by AI is the least surprising thing about our current times. The final evolution of an always-on public figure frenetically posting more or less doctored pictures of products, places, and events with carefully curated comments was always a bot. For the brands, it also means unmitigated control
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While the U.S. Congress is doing whatever, the European Union has reached a comprehensive deal on AI regulation for generative AI tools like OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Bard. The first key point imposed on the tech sector is about safeguards and exemptions on faces live
Sorry for all the acronyms. The question concerns two highly hyped technologies of these last five years: augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR). These technologies have been slowly falling out of the hype train as they still fail to deliver any opposable value to any market (if you disregard
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An interesting link from the venerable Daring Fireball about the perception from within Google of how the company is going, quoting an engineer who worked there for 18 years: Much of these problems with Google today stem from a lack of visionary leadership from Sundar Pichai, and his clear lack
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This week, a discussion on the struggles and opportunities camera-makers are facing with the fast evolution of cheap AI tools and why it will soon matter for everyone else...
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While everyone is discussing the minute-by-minute live-action, let's step back and see the big picture for every business starting to invest (and depend) on AI in 10 bullet points. 1. OpenAI structure was a clown car (imagine if Mozilla was running Google) and still is. This is terrible
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The signals of AI starting to appear in our normal day-to-day lives are now popping right and left. It's still early, but the march forward has very obviously started. The University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG) has started using AI with the EPIC Dutch Association to streamline patient communication.