I had the pleasure of collaborating with the brilliant Maria Franzoni recently, and together, we decided to create a series of concise Zoom interviews discussing key future trends. 🚀 In our fifth discussion topic, we delve into the advantages of early adoption of new technologies, which often provide a temporary competitive edge as others work to […]
I had the pleasure of collaborating with the brilliant Maria Franzoni recently, and together, we decided to create a series of concise Zoom interviews discussing key future trends. 🚀 Our fourth topic touches on the idea of becoming future-ready. Future-proofing is all about providing a sense of certainty in an uncertain world. Sure, it’s highly likely that […]
I had the pleasure of collaborating with the brilliant Maria Franzoni recently, and together, we decided to create a series of concise Zoom interviews discussing key future trends. 🚀 Our third topic explores THE key skill we all have that enables our capacity for change. The dawn of the AI era is a tale of technological evolution. […]
Picture a group of students in a science class, working together on an experiment to learn something new. Nowadays, AI-powered tools can help them analyse data and make sense of it all much quicker. Instead of calling it ‘cheating,’ let’s change how we teach and set tasks to keep up with the times. Let’s focus […]
That might sound far-fetched, but it’s really not. Just yesterday, Chinese e-Commerce giant, Alibaba, released one of the first open-source ‘text to video‘ applications. It’s already sparking a flurry of experimentation. You’ll see from the video that its output is relatively crude and limited to a few seconds. BUT – it’s just the start. Those […]
Hey there! Exciting news! On Monday, Google unveiled their newest robot, PALM-E! It’s super powerful, equipped with over 562 billion parameters (that’s more than 3 x ChatGPT’s), and it can do things that other robots can’t. PALM-E can learn from sight, speech and the written word to handle real-world scenarios and plan detailed tasks all […]
Hey all! Microsoft is set to announce its latest creation this week, the Large Language Model known as GPT-4. This incredible advancement in AI is expected to be a major step forward from what we’ve seen in ChatGPT. Firstly, GPT-4 will not be limited to just text – it’s set to revolutionise the way we […]
This post is actually a response to one on LinkedIn about Online Communities. The text of which is pasted below: How online communities are changing our world 💻 🌎 Since the Covid-19 pandemic, we have seen a rise in online communities to help make us feel more connected to one another. Online communities are being […]
I wanted to share a concept from my upcoming book ‘Future Hackers‘, specifically from the final section called ‘Next Frontier’. In this section, I explore the topic of ‘Robosexuality‘ and discuss what the journey toward normalising marriage between humans and robots might look like, even though it’s several decades away. One of the pressing points […]
Pundits are forecasting that the future of social media sites will increasingly be built around people’s shared interests, values, and lifestyles. And yes, politics. How about AI that enables a communications platform to deepen the relationships with our most treasured people as opposed to maximising the number of people we connect with? Wouldn’t it be […]
