Web, Internet and the Economy
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GenAI Prompting Guide for Aspiring Experts
If you are dying to understand the various GenAI prompting methods, how AI interacts with your prompt, and why this is key to optimising your results, this free prompting guide was made for you.
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Behind the Torch: How the Olympics Reshape Economies
How does hosting the Olympics reshape a country’s economy? The truth is, it’s hard to put numbers on the true economic effect of the Olympic Games but there are measurable statistics that we can use. Hosting the games requires a ton of strategy, planning, and coordination; to make a profit…
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AI Search : Breaking Up With Your Traditional Search Engine
How is AI Search changing the Internet and what role are we playing in this transformation? In this article, I discuss the current state of adoption of AI-powered search engines. By reflecting on the perspectives of Kevin Roose, Matteo Wong and Joanna Stern, this piece explores what we gain—faster, more…
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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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