Tag: Innovation

Our digital clone

In early November, OpenAI, renowned for developing the ChatGPT platform, introduced the capability to create custom versions of its popular chatbot. This innovation allows for easy customization without any programming skills. Users can now modify the chatbot’s standard behavior and enhance its knowledge base with ease. With just a few clicks, anyone can craft their own personalized version of ChatGPT. In the future, there will also be opportunities to monetize the chatbot’s usage. For example, a chef could develop a system that offers recipes and culinary tips from their books, while an illustrator might create an image generator that emulates their unique artistic style. These custom chatbots can be made available either for free or for a fee.

If machines start buying on their own

Who buys for us
We are used to thinking of ourselves as the main actors of our purchases, people who consciously buy goods and services based on will or necessity and in complete freedom.
For now, this is the case, but things are about to change rapidly, as a new player is entering this economic ecosystem that involves the exchange of money, our money, for products and services: artificial intelligence algorithms.

The change triggered by Apple’s Vision Pro

Here we go.

Apple has finally introduced its Augmented Reality headset, called Vision Pro, that resembles a diving mask and costs $3,499.

Many laud it for its technical features, the 5,000 patents it has generated, the immediate availability of services as soon as it becomes available, and for its biometric authentication.

Many others criticize it for its aesthetics, price, poor battery life, and the sense of isolation and separation from reality that it could induce in users.

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Four steps to the human augmentation

Throughout its history, humanity has always tried to improve its physical conditions, its performance, its abilities and at the same time it has always sought solutions to mitigate its weaknesses or disabilities.

Human Augmentation

In a way it has always tried to “increase” itself from the point of view of physical strength, sharpness of the senses and also of knowledge.

In this long journey it has always used the technologies that its historical period was able to make available to it: for example, it learned to build machines capable of performing some tiring or dangerous tasks instead of it and began to equip itself with devices that help overcome some of its disabilities. The eyeglasses that many of us wear are an excellent example of a device created to overcome or mitigate a disability and which in the space of a few decades has become commonplace, transforming itself into an aesthetic and fashion accessory.

Smart gloves to overcome disabilities

These smart gloves allow you to translate sign language movements into natural language words and phrases.

This approach breaks down the language barriers and allows people, who cannot speak, to communicate in natural language with people who do not know sign language.

It is about overcoming an important disability that severely limits the possibility of communicating and often creates socialization problems, the possibility of attending school in a natural way and the possibility of carrying out certain work tasks.

An excellent example of how we can “increase” the human being, going precisely in the direction of Augmented Lives.

And we are only at the beginning.

Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain, an inevitable marriage

Artificial Intelligence has a history that goes back a long way, the first major works were by John McCarthy, Allen Newell and Herbert Simon and date back to the 1950s. The first experiments on Blockchains (chains of blocks) occurred instead in 1991 thanks to the work of researchers Stuart Haber and W. Scott Stornetta, even if the real revolution took place only in 2008 with Satoshi Nakamoto, a pseudonym which nobody has yet been able to ascribe to an individual or a team, with the presentation of the paper “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System”.

Despite this important age difference, these are two enabling technological ecosystems with interesting complementarities and which are inevitably destined to collaborate closely in the near future.

Smart Working, with the right tools and target-oriented work

One of the things that have undergone a sudden acceleration due to the pandemic is undoubtedly the adoption of smart working by companies, for all professional figures compatible with this way of working.

Smart working does not mean, however, continuing to do the same things as before, with the same methods as previously, in a different place. Instead, it is a complete change of perspective in the employment relationship, which has an impact on the methods, times, internal processes of the organizations and on the tools that these make available to employees and collaborators.

From Innovation to Wennovation

In a society that tries to emerge from the extremely serious crisis triggered by the pandemic as quickly as possible and in the best way possible, despite several uncertainty indicators the most important analysts worldwide agree that in the medium term the crisis will push companies to increasingly invest in innovation and digital transformation, processes and aptitudes which will quickly become a priority for all those organizations that decide to react strongly to the crisis by trying to grasp the opportunities which this can generate.

The key to restarting the economy in the post-covid phase therefore is the implementation of a complete industrial and economic strategy centered on people, based on ecosystems, activated by innovation and enabled by new technologies.

Innovation calls for Innovators

We live in a world in which speed linked to innovation is increasingly marked. This does not apply exclusively to the so-called “enabling technologies”, i.e. those which allow activating technological innovation, but it is also and mainly true because of the effects that these have on people’s lives.

According to an article published by Visual Capitalist in 2018, the main technological innovations in human history took many years to reach the threshold of 50 million users. We begin with the 64 years which were necessary for aviation, then the 62 years for cars, up to the 14 years required for computers and the 4 years for the spread of Facebook.

Last of the list in this special ranking is the time required for the spread of Pokemon Go, a specific video game to be used on smartphones, equipped with innovative features such as the use of Augmented Reality and of geo-location and made by Niantic, where 19 days were sufficient to reach the threshold of 50 million users.

Trigger innovation for a better world

One of the clear-cut things in the world around us is that innovation is a priority, and it is so for companies, for the world of work, for people, for social policies and for the very concept of State. In every organization you can’t help but innovate because today’s revenues are made with today’s boring main-stream activities, but tomorrow’s revenues will be generated thanks to today’s concrete innovation policies.

The interesting thing is that in some industrial sectors the concept of innovation can simply mean a few adjustments to the brand, to production or to distribution, but in other cases it can mean having to completely rethink the offer, redesign products and services or even completely change the business model in directions which may have seemed unthinkable just a few months ago.

However you look at it, innovation is the process which generates value starting from ideas, therefore there is no innovation if you do not create a concrete and tangible value for the players who take part in the process itself, whether they be companies or the public administration, without ever forgetting, however, that the actual and true recipient of the value which will be produced will be the final consumer, who will be able to enjoy better products, lower-priced business models or more efficient services from the public administration.