Beyond Zoom fatigue: next generation 3D and holographic calls
I was recently interviewed on the Sunrise breakfast TV program on the next phase of video calling, which will shift to far more immersive technologies. The segment focuses on Google’s Project Starline,...
View ArticleHow do we know when AI becomes conscious and deserves rights?
Machines becoming conscious, self-aware, and having feelings would be an extraordinary threshold. We would have created not just life, but conscious beings. There has already been massive debate about...
View ArticleTouch typing is still a vital productivity skill but will that continue?
When I was a teenager my father encouraged me to learn to touch type, in those days this being on electric typewriters. His rationale was that if I was preparing my resume I wouldn’t be able to give it...
View ArticleThe implications of new mind-reading technologies that discovers what we find...
What if technology could help you discover what you found most attractive, in people, art, or your environment? In Alfred Bester’s SF novel The Deceivers, Demi Jeroux evolves her appearance to match...
View ArticleFuture lift: a concept co-created by Ross Dawson and AI
“Future lift” is a concept developed by Ross Dawson that refers to the ability of a technology, business, or idea to improve the future. He visualizes it as an upward lift or force that elevates the...
View ArticleInnovation in decentralized organizations: From DAOs to BORGs and beyond
Powerful forces of decentralization over the last decades, underpinned by the Internet, flowing through to societal shifts, and expanded by distributed technologies such as blockchain, have reshaped...
View ArticleThe open-ended potential of the 60s, 90s, and 20s
We seem to be in a three decade cycle of belief in open-ended potential for positive change. I was born too late to experience it properly, but when I was younger I always felt the 1960s had been the...
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The important distinction between Generative AI and Analytic AI
To tap the power of AI in organizations it is critical to understand the distinction between Generative AI and more traditional AI, which is perhaps best termed ‘Analytic AI’. Recently I have...
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Applying Chain-of-Thought to AI-enhanced human thinking
Among the most important recent innovations for improving the value and reliability of Large Language Models are Chain-of-Thought and its derivatives including Tree-of-Thought and Graph-of-Thought....
View ArticleHumans + AI forecasting far outperforms either alone: 6 lessons learned
Since well before the advent of Generative AI, machine learning models exceeded human forecasting performance across a whole range of specific domains. Within a bounded domain with sufficient data,...
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