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 […]
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 […]
Hey there creative friends! I hope you’re all doing well. I know there’s a lot of buzz about AI these days and how it’s going to take our jobs, but I want to share a different perspective with you. Firstly, let’s talk about the film industry. When CGI technology arrived on the scene, it opened […]
Imagine a world where nothing online can be trusted. We’re reaching that dangerous crossroads, fast. Machine-generated content creator tools are at the heart of 2022-3’s zeitgeist, but are sparking intense debate. Some speculate OpenAI’s ‘ChatGPT‘ natural language processing tool represents the death of school essays, or will put people from programmers to copywriters out of […]
In the course of researching my second book, ‘Future Hackers‘, I’ve been playing with OpenAI’s ‘Dall E‘ image generator. It uses natural language input to create any image it’s instructed to create… Took around 30 seconds to generate these images: The instructions I gave it were ‘Create a brochure for an accountancy software company. Use […]
