I have been saying this for a while: the older you get, the more useful AI becomes. Why? Because you have context, pattern recognition, judgement and, perhaps, mastery. Being old is good People over 50 possess another unusual advantage. We remember life before permanent connectivity. We remember boredom, solitude, and uninterrupted attention. We know that […]
Use #Mindcandy as a strategic sensing engine to help leadership teams identify the signals they are missing. It fuels the strategic conversation about what is next. DM “SIGNALS” to find out more. The intelligence explosion should starting inside your business. We normally associate an “intelligence explosion” with the technological singularity: machines becoming increasingly capable, potentially
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Use #Mindcandy as a strategic sensing engine to help leadership teams identify the signals they are missing. It fuels the strategic conversation about what is next. DM “SIGNALS” to find out more. There is a one-in-five chance of AI killing millions Most boards discuss AI risk in terms of hallucinations, data leakage, bias and compliance.
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Use #Mindcandy as a strategic sensing engine to help leadership teams identify the signals they are missing. It fuels the strategic conversation about what is next. DM “SIGNALS” to find out more. Distributed singularity? Sam Altman says we’re in the singularity. Two years ago, unpacking Kurzweil’s epoch framework, we called this the steep part of
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In May 2023, I asked a question that felt like provocation for its own sake: will AI become the new McKinsey? ChatGPT was four months old. Most companies were using it to write emails. The idea that a language model might replace strategic advisory sounded like a stretch. It wasn’t a stretch. It was a
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I am a huge fan of Jason Silva. Particularly, his latest post about the “latent space and the new literacy of the AI age” hits a nerve. I need to go back a bit. To reading Dan Simmons´ Hyperion. While having a glass of wine on the beach in Spain. The common denominators are latent
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In January 2023, ChatGPT passed a Wharton MBA exam. And like most people, I got distracted by the headline. An AI passing a business school exam. The implications for education. The implications for white-collar work. The implications for the knowledge economy. I missed the deeper signal entirely. It took me months to see it. The
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I use the #Mindcandy as a strategic sensing engine to help leadership teams identify the signals they are missing, the assumptions they are protecting, and the moves they need to make before disruption becomes visible on the P&L. It fuels the strategic conversation about what is next. DM me “SESSION” if you want to find
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I use the #Mindcandy as a strategic sensing engine to help leadership teams identify the signals they are missing, the assumptions they are protecting, and the moves they need to make before disruption becomes visible on the P&L. It fuels the strategic conversation about what is next. They built the world’s most powerful AI. They’re
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Every innovation director tells me the same thing. We experiment all the time. We fail fast. So I ask one question: What’s your failure fund? How much are you actually allowed to lose this year, on purpose, being wrong? The room goes quiet. Because there isn’t one. Real experiments cost real money and real people,
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