Generative A.I. is the latest in a long line of innovations to put pressure on our already dysfunctional copyright system.

L'émotion ressentie à l'arrêt du paquebot France illustre le risque d'une nostalgie qui peut être un obstacle à l'innovation.

For the past 25 years, application software startups have had a singular focus: increasing company and employee (including developer) productivity. This looked like building software that increased productivity at the employee level, increased collaboration across employees and teams, and/or enabled better oversight and management at the leadership level. More often than not, this software has been priced on a per seat basis, in essence benchmarked against the cost of the headcount itself and increasing that headcount’s productivity.

AI and the freudian Unheimlich of the Digital.

What can we learn about AI from the rare children who grew up untouched by human language or society?

Thousands of subscribers. Essays and analysis to help you question everything you think you know about work, culture, and business. Click to read What Works, by Tara McMullin, a Substack publication.

How does talent distribution impact corporate culture and the future of work?

Les semaines passent et la fascination pour ChatGPT continue de prendre de l’ampleur. Si les capacités des IA génératives sont effectivement très convaincantes au premier abord, les services …

AI can reduce inequality and polarization by making the internet less social.

Out of time man

This essay is a companion piece to an episode of Radiolab, titled The Interstitium. You don’t need to have heard it for this essay to make sense, but

The aestheticization of the struggle to integrate technological innovation is a dangerous path.

Deepfake News Anchors fuel fires in an already desynchronized society.

A FAQ of sorts

Is the AI boom good or bad for cities and offices? Yes.

Both centralized giants and distributed tribes need checks and balances in the coming wave of innovation.

How becoming a person of place will sustain you in a warming world

It makes economic sense to let people do whatever they want.

In addition to following the increasingly complex abilities of various AI technologies, I have also been carefully watching society’s response to these systems. Are we worried about our jobs? Do we welcome our coming overlords? Do we cower in fear? Do we dwell on how best to augment our own abilities? Do our minds go blank with an inability to predict what is to come? Or all of these and everything else in between? AI seems to reduce anyone who encounters it to an atavistic version of themselves.

Whatever job you're in, technology can multiply your productivity, reach, and rewards. Here's a simple formula to help you get started.

Nous venons à peine de découvrir les possibilités de GPT-4 que l’on nous annonce déjà l’avènement d’Auto-GPT. Les agents intelligents sont de retour, mais cette fois ils bénéficie…

Most people no longer need to work. Our survival depends on convincing them it's ok to do something else.

En lançant OpenAI en 2015, Elon Musk et ses co-investisseurs ne pensaient pas qu’ils allaient déclencher un tel raz-de-marée médiatique quelques années plus tard. Si la vocation initiale d&#8…

More on Bing, particularly the Sydney personality undergirding it: interacting with Sydney has made me completely rethink what conversational AI is important for.

Après les générateurs d'images se prenant pour autant d'oeuvres d'art dont je vous parlais longuement dans ces colonnes, voici donc l'un des derniers avatars de la société OpenAI, un "chatbot", une interface conversationnelle qui permet de "discuter" et de lancer le générateur de texte sur la base d

Where it came from, what it all means, and why it still matters.

The bubble has popped, but pyramid schemes are more important than ever. If you want customers to notice you, you'll have to play along.