Tag: artificial intelligence

IKEA Saved 8,500 Jobs From AI and Made $1.4 Billion

IKEA handed almost half of its customer requests to its AI Billie without cutting a single one of those 8,500 jobs. By training them as remote design advisors, the retailer created over a billion euros in sales. A look at a decision that replaces tasks and amplifies people.

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Free AI Is a Weapon

Fifty tech giants are giving away the engine of their AI to the entire world, competitors included. One major lab still refuses. A breakdown of a billion-dollar strategic bet, where openness is not generosity but a weapon.

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The Next Elevator Operator Is You

In 1492, a monk had a book printed to defend scribes against the printing press. Five centuries later, the same little voice whispers that your job, at least, will withstand AI. Here is why it is lying, and how to answer it today.

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The Fentanyl of Loneliness

AIs listen to us better than humans do, at least in the short term. Seductive, and dangerous. Between addiction, flattery and the end of social friction, here is why the “fentanyl of loneliness” could soothe some and damage others.

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That Chart Is an Ad

An Anthropic chart is everywhere: a huge blue area of theoretical capability, a small red area of actual usage. Except the blue comes from an opinion issued in 2023 about GPT-3.5, with a generous rounding rule, and the report itself concludes there is no measurable employment effect. Decoding a viral object that works like an advertisement.

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Jobs Was Right. You’re 43 Years Behind.

In 1983 in Aspen, Steve Jobs described a machine that could answer in your place after your death. He announced a 50 to 100 year horizon. The architecture that made it possible arrived 34 years later. That gap explains what a corporate vision is actually for: cutting.

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