Artificial intelligence (I see no reason, at least for the time being to follow President Trump and call it super intelligence) is becoming prevalent in our daily lives and this includes electoral campaigning. AI is a great productivity tool and hence is frequently used to create fundraising emails and press releases, but also to write […]
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AI vs Human Advisors: The Future of Investment
Some 45 years ago I trained as a banker in Switzerland and quickly became interested in the stock markets, which led me to work for some two decades as a trader for a Swiss private bank in Geneva and London. What a glorious time this was! There weren’t nowhere near as many regulatory restraints as […]
Claude: From Famous Namesakes to Modern AI
Claude once upon a time used to be a popular first name, particularly in the French speaking parts of the world. Multiple sources analysing name popularity trends (e.g. Geneanet and similar demographic tools) show that Claude peaked mainly between the 1930s and 1970s, especially in France, Belgium, and Switzerland, and has declined sharply since then. […]
The Future of Work: Keynes’ 15-Hour Prediction and AI
John Maynard Keynes made a prediction in 1930 that by 2030 we would be working 15 hours per week. And if AI lives up to its admittedly high expectations this may come true. Maybe not for all but at least for some of us. According to an article on Bloomberg, a financial news and data […]
The Dangers of the Circular Economy in AI
The AI sector is increasingly characterised by interwoven financial and operational relationships, where companies act simultaneously as suppliers, customers, and investors. This has led to what analysts call a “circular economy” in AI infrastructure: At the centre of this digital ouroboros is OpenAI, the once non-profit darling turned corporate juggernaut, now entangled in a web […]
Technology’s Role in Deepening Socioeconomic Disparities
Social disparity is much more prevalent nowadays than it was say 50 years ago: CEOs in the USA in 1970 made 30 times what the typical worker earned, some 50 years later it’s up to 350 times. Most of the wealth which was created in recent decades has flown upwards to the very top. In […]
Can AI Make Us Smarter or Just Lazier?
Artificial intelligence is fantastic! It’s like having a personal assistant 24/7 at my disposal be that for work or personal purposes! Personally I use AI mostly for work, analysing and reworking large data sets in Excel where AI proposes me code to help me make complex calculations using the Python programming language rather than writing […]
Can AI Surpass Human Intelligence? A Deep Dive
As can be expected, there is a big debate raging about the pros and cons of Artificial Intelligence (AI), not least also in our company, where one of my colleagues professes to be a bit of an expert in the matter (he does on the side have his own AI consulting business). My colleague is […]
Generational Views on Work: Gen Z vs Baby Boomers
Assuming that you are not retired yet, is your job an important part of your life? The average person will spend 90‘000 hours at work over a lifetime, compared with roughly 230‘000 hours (or approximately 1/3 of our life) we spend sleeping. According to the World Values Survey published in 2023 by King‘s College London […]
Deepfake Deception: AI’s Dark Side in Fraud
Artificial Intelligence is all the rage these days, not only to increase productivity at work and find answers to questions and solutions to problems, but also increasingly to create fake photos (remember the picture of the pope wearing a Balenciaga puffer jacket) and videos, and even recreate the voice of celebrities and even long deceased […]
