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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The core insight We are all caught in the current AI hype, and justifiably so. ChatGPT and others already give us a taste of a future when any type of data, as complex and numerous as possible, will be transformed into a simple conversation with an artificial mind giving us
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Following the latest Google I/O conference, where the search giant presents its new tools and innovations to the public, the question that was front and center was, "How would Google deal with AI crippling its ad business model?" As I was discussing back in January 2023: The
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In this series, I will share the nine key insights I deeply believe you should be aware of to drive any business into our short-term and yet very volatile future...
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In a recent interview with Dwarkesh Patel, Mark Zuckerberg addressed the mother of all bottlenecks when on how AI could sustain its explosive market progression: energy. 📖Here's the transcript of the video, rewritten just a tad to make it more legible (all italics and bolds are me emphasizing
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Tech journalists have started reviewing the first Humane "AI" Pins out of production, and as expected, they're a disaster—or, if you want to be nice about it, one of the most expensive proofs of concept in recent years. That raises the second question: should you
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In case you need to pour more fuel on the debate of "Will AI replace consultants?", here's a quick one: The core shift is that whatever you do, there will be the equivalent of a live, up-to-date Wikipedia bot to address it. Just like writers, graphic
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On Monday, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang presented its annual developer conference. In all aspects, it seems like an extract from a science-fiction movie. With 11,000 people attending (not a typo!), the conference was held in San Jose SAP Hockey stadium–the irony of being in a SAP-branded venue shouldn&
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In the recent explosion of AI and large language model (LLM) applications, few developments have captured the imagination quite like the recent strides in video generation. The unveiling of OpenAI's Sora has sparked both excitement and trepidation within the tech community and beyond. While OpenAI's foray
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In the mid-'90s, a breakthrough occurred in the quest to decipher human language in the context of mapping and searching information in the nascent web. Researchers, notably Sergey Brin and Larry Page from Stanford, pursued innovative avenues to refine search quality. Ironically enough, instead of grappling with the
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Zach Seward (editorial director of AI initiatives at The New York Times) just gave a a cogent and educated deep-dive on how artificial intelligence has been (mostly) ill-used by media up to now, and (in a few cases) remarkably well. AI news that’s fit to printHow news organizations are
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Kayak, the travel booking aggregator app, has been offering a filter for a few months now that allows you to include or exclude certain planes from your travel research. This means that a great number of customers have been more than happy to filter out the Boeing 737 Max. Some
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I recently stole this chart from a U.S. think tank called the American Enterprise Institute, and it's fascinating. The charts essentially compound the price evolution of key consumer goods against inflation for the last +10 years: Mostly, the American think tank argues that the government is bad