What’s the future of productivity: Pre-programmed, AI-enabled workflows or fully autonomous, general-purpose AI agents? There are currently two schools of thought in the AI industry when it comes to the near future of AI agents: One perspective thinks that AI works best when it’s combined with more traditional code and Read more…
Even for experts, it’s currently very hard to make sense of the incredibly rapid and dramatic trends in the AI market. But that’s not surprising for a massive new tech wave. The tech industry doesn’t move in a linear fashion. S-curve-like patterns can be found everywhere. Not much seems to Read more…
Nine months after the release of ChatGPT, this is a question that suddenly quite a few people are asking. AI luminaries such as Gary Marcus and François Chollet as well as respected industry analysts such as Ben Evans are openly postulating that Gen AI might not be the civilization-changing, business-disrupting Read more…
The best way to understand Web3 in its current form is to simply see it as what it is: A branch of the entertainment industry. There’s nothing wrong with entertainment. Some of the most valuable companies in the world, such as Disney and Netflix, are entertainment companies. Most of Facebook Read more…
Here’s why I’m skeptical about NFTs (non-fungible tokens) and don’t believe they will be relevant in the long run — at least not in today’s form: They are a pure form of artificial scarcity. The only purpose of artificial scarcity is to be a form of psychological manipulation to transfer Read more…
When I was a kid, maybe 9 or 10 years old, I was fascinated by media. I decided to try my hand at it and started producing a family newspaper — with investigative reporting on what the house cats were up to and similar important topics. It was neatly typed Read more…
I often get a bit annoyed at my computer’s user interface. Why, after all these years, are we still interacting with our computers with a primitive keyboard, a simplistic pointing device and a flat glowing rectangle of a 2D screen with a limited size? This kind of user interface has Read more…