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The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat syndrome

The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat syndrome

In January 1896, the Lumières brothers had the first public viewing of a ground-breaking piece of technology. "L'Arrivée du train en gare de la Ciotat" (The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat) was a single non-moving fifty seconds shot of the mundane entrance of a

ChatGPT is fine, but China's long-term AI race is not going away

ChatGPT is fine, but China's long-term AI race is not going away

While ChatGPT has been unleashed on the world, I started to read about European politicians and intellectuals demanding our version and asking why we couldn't invent it. This amounts to discovering a jungle and asking that we plant trees immediately to catch up ('sigh'). And while

AI, a Photoshop for the mind...

AI, a Photoshop for the mind...

Tim Rayner from Phase One Insight poked me recently to discuss an article on AI published at the beginning of the year. The article "The Third Magic" discussed many thorny concepts about AI and how we humans deal with knowledge, cognition, and power. Among (many) other things, the

The second-order consequences of the pandemic

The second-order consequences of the pandemic

Now that we might start to believe that the Covid-19 pandemic is mostly behind us, we certainly want to think that everything is back to normal; whatever normal was three years ago. But it's not, and we aren't. What generally eludes us is the second-order consequences

Using an AI mirror to check your brand

Among the gazillions of new applications that ChatGPT is currently offering, one that I've found quite amusing (and efficient) is checking how good your marketing is. How to do that? Simply by asking the AI to explain back to you your tagline, missions statement, or the name of

Design thinking is a tool, not a process

Design thinking is a tool, not a process

I have already expressed my doubts a few times about innovation methodologies that are both all-encompassing and self-contained. The fabulous five-step methodologies that get you from A to E flawlessly and can solve all your seemingly inscrutable problems are, at best, overly optimistic but mostly cheap grifts. If you missed