News - Dr Mark van Rijmenam, CSP | Strategic Futurist Speaker (Page 20)

GPT-4.5: A Pricey Upgrade or a ‘Nothingburger’?

AI just got an update… but is GPT-4.5 more evolution than revolution? OpenAI’s latest model is bigger, costlier, and ‘a little bit better,’ but not where it really matters.

The AI Speed Race Just Got Interesting

Forget slow-loading AI responses. Text diffusion models just rewrote the rulebook. Mercury Coder, a new diffusion-based AI, generates text 19x faster than GPT-4o Mini. But can speed alone redefine AI, or are we just trading accuracy for acceleration?

China’s AI Champion: DeepSeek’s Meteoric Rise

China’s AI ambitions just took a giant leap forward. DeepSeek is spreading faster than ChatGPT in a Silicon Valley boardroom, but is this AI revolution real, or just a state-backed PR push?

AI-Powered Surveillance: The Game No One Admits Playing

Turns out, AI isn’t just making deepfakes and writing poetry. It’s also debugging surveillance tools that governments conveniently pretend don’t exist.

Innovation Economy: The New Hard Skill Era

The knowledge economy is dead. Welcome to the innovation economy, where soft skills become the new hard skills.

The End of the Engine: Why Ford’s Rock Stars Are Being Replaced by Coders

For a century, engineers were the rock stars of the auto industry. Now, they’re being replaced by chemists and coders. As Ford pivots to EVs, engine specialists are expendable, their intricate craft reduced to a modular, software-driven process. Is this progress, or is the aut...