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Model Surfing

Model Surfing

‘Which AI models should I use? Should I get a subscription to one, or more?’ The answer is: model surfing. Rather than committing to a premium subscription for a single large player, we look at the strategic use of multiple free accounts across different platforms,...

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AI-Powered Leadership

AI-Powered Leadership

As a leader of an organization, team or department, getting serious about AI adoption is the ultimate change management challenge. Successful AI integration isn’t just about learning to use the latest tools and training your staff; it’s about aligning your...

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AI’s Insatiable Energy Demand

AI’s Insatiable Energy Demand

The rapid growth of AI is driving a significant increase in global energy demand. The technology simply requires far more power than traditional computation. As companies shift from CPUs to energy-intensive GPUs for AI development, the need for massive upgrades to...

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The Rise of Vanilla

The Rise of Vanilla

In a world increasingly shaped by AI, the future of our most cherished Human skills – writing, designing and creating – is at risk. As AI generates more content, it reduces our language to a bland, uniform “vanilla,” stripped of the richness,...

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Advanced Reasoning

Advanced Reasoning

What’s “Advanced Reasoning”? We saw this with the GPT-o1 rollout, but what does it mean, and how does it work? This new model design thinks before it answers, breaking down problems into steps, double-checking its work and delivering more accurate...

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AI and Field Safety

AI and Field Safety

Large, supply-chain heavy industries face increasing safety challenges along with higher expectations and stricter regulations for safe work spaces. There are slippery floors and heavy machinery, difficulties on the road and communication breakdowns. AI offers...

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AI-Supported Thought Leadership

AI-Supported Thought Leadership

Today’s high-level leaders are expected to not only run their organizations but be highly visible in their field. They need to regularly share insights through industry publications, keynote speeches, podcasts, blogs or interviews. They also need to provide insights...

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RAG AI

RAG AI

In a sea of AI models now flooding the market, Perplexity stands out as the underdog, making waves among tech giants like GPT and Gemini. Despite arriving late to the party, this scrappy RAG AI—short for Retrieval-Augmented Generation—has redefined how we interact...

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Sentience

Sentience

Are we on the brink of creating a sentient AI that not only thinks but feels, and knows the nature of its existence? We explore the creepy, eerie emergence of a non-Human consciousness in machines and look at a few unsettling real-life cases, like Bing’s “Sydney” and...

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Human Grief and Loss in an AI World

Human Grief and Loss in an AI World

AI is moving fast and creeping into our working lives whether we like it or not. We creatives aren’t particularly good with change, especially the radical kind that might put us out of work. We feel pain when we know we need to stop what we’re doing, learn new tricks,...

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Embodied AI

Embodied AI

The robots are here! We examine the rapid advancements in humanoid robots and their AI-powered brains. Figure 02, Atlas and Optimus as well as the exploding Chinese market. Why now? And what does all this have to do with AI? A lot; and it’s not slowing down. The...

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The Voice-Activated AI Workflow

The Voice-Activated AI Workflow

The Voice-Activated Workflow works differently; both the AI and Human leverage the strengths of their own brain-type. But this style of working is not for everyone. It might speak to younger portions of our working community and help make us old people seem more...

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