Tag: AI
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Authenticity: What to Optimize for in the Age of AI

A video of Google testing Gemini, its natively multi-modal AI model, was making the rounds on the internet this week. If you haven’t stumbled across it yet, check it out below: Multi-modality is what distinguishes Gemini from other large language models (LLMs). It is trained on text, images, audio and video whereas its counterparts are…
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The Optionality Strategy: Microsoft, Fidelity and the Pursuit of Corporate Learning

Strategy is very rarely linear. We seldom start at Point A, aim at Point B, and call it a day. In fact, strategy is filled with randomness. Companies are complex adaptive systems sitting inside industries which behave in the same way. The arenas in which companies compete are always changing. They are occasionally reflexive and…
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The New Focal Point: How Brands Become More Valuable in the Age of Generative AI

The Cost of Distribution Goes to Zero Here’s a problem very few people have had in recent years: newspaper ink stains. Pouring through the Sunday Times inevitably meant having to wash a thin black film off of your fingertips… but when was the last time you held a physical newspaper in your hand long enough…
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The Most ‘Human’ Company: A Turing Test for the Corporate World

In the analog age, information was scarce. In the internet age, information was abundant and interpretation was scarce. In the artificial intelligence age, both information and interpretation are abundant. Humanness is what becomes scarce. Distinguishing Man from Machine Since the birth of the computer in the mid-20th century, building ‘humanness’ into our technological pursuits has…