Web, Internet and the Economy
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Data-Driven AI Is the Future of Customer Experience
Data-Driven AI is the future of customer experience, François Ajenstat told us at a recent interview. François is Chief Product Officer at Amplitude, the company behind a digital analytics platform aimed at helping B2B and B2C businesses build better products, websites and ecommerce experiences through behavioural data. François stressed the…
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GENAI and Content Marketing: Learning from experience
Is GenAI content marketing-friendly? Adobe organised a round-table discussion during their Experience Makers conference in Paris at the end of last year. The debate brought together a few digital experts. During this debate, I mentioned that there were limitations associated with GenAI image production and that they weren’t technical. Others…
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NotebookLM by Google: Artificial Voices, Real Concerns
Content creation with artificial intelligence is already old hat as it’s been going on for a few years and, unfortunately, slop is now populating the Internet at an increasing pace. Yet, when I received this message from a good friend of mine last week regarding Google’s new app entitled NotebookLM,…
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What if your smartphone were the future of GenAI?
At the XYZ Paris that took place at Station F on September 27, 2024, George Tsirtsis from Qualcomm stressed the issue with GenAI, i.e. scalability, and sketched a new course for the future of that technology: on-device GenAI. To the chips manufacturer, the future isn’t the cloud but your good…
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Harnessing AI to Combat Fraud in Retail and E-Commerce
Our reporters attended the Paris Retail Week 2024 event, a trade show of which we are media partners, to take stock of fraud and the role of AI. We collected a lot of valuable feedback on threats (both in-store and e-commerce) and the countermeasures proposed by artificial intelligence. To do…
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GenAI impact on jobs: doom or boon?
What is the likely impact of AI and GenAI in particular on jobs, especially in Europe? Two recent reports on the topic, one in the UK and another one in France shed light on this question. According to the French report, such impact could amount to 5%. Yet another case…
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Learning AI with the help of robots
Thomas Deneux is the founder of Learning Robots whose aim is to help pupils, students and businesses to learn AI, with the help of home-made self-driving gizmos. These little machines on two wheels are more serious than you’d think. They are all about the teaching of advanced computing. Thomas described…
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Rendanheyi, the Haier Management Model
It’s customary to turn to the US for management lessons, yet Haier, a Chinese company, has probably a lot to teach us too with its Rendanheyi management model. Jérôme Delacroix, a seasoned expert in Chinese management suggests that one could — ironically and provocatively — start copying Chinese companies’ management…
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Multicloud Synchronisation: Onecloud, Google Cloud and others
How do you achieve multicloud synchronisation, i.e. the synchronisation between multiple clouds such as Onedrive, Google Drive and the other platforms that keep your precious files in the cloud? When these are spread across several incompatible services, this can quickly become mind-boggling. I discovered, somewhat by chance, a service (and even…
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Perceptron: A History of Neural Networks
The Perceptron is the ancestor of Neural Networks and Generative AI, but it arrived 60 years too early and, above all, its promise was a tad overstated, to say the least. One started to imagine impossible things. Besides, artificial intelligence as no match for natural human resentment. Especially that of…
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Nobody understands how AI works
No one knows now AI really works an MIT reviewer states. A little while ago, at the beginning of 2024, we released a piece stating that the AI revolution would not take place. We understand that this was a very bold move. A few readers laughed, most dismissed the idea…
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Naturally Smart Writing, Beyond the Artificial
This piece is about proposing a framework for smart human writing. There’s such a flurry of social media content on AI one can legitimately feel bewildered. Every day we are overwhelmed with new GenAI tools, all deemed more “revolutionary” than those we had the day before. But do these tools really make…
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