Source: ChatGPT modified by NostaLab. A couple of years ago, I wrote about something I called the techno-agora. It's a way of thinking about how large language models were beginning to reshape group ...

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Vasco Pedro had always believed that, despite the rise of artificial intelligence (AI), getting machines to translate languages as well as professional translators do would always need a human in the ...

As I sat down with Jim Wilson, global managing director of thought leadership and technology at Accenture and co-author of the newly updated book Human + Machine: Reimagining Work in the Age of AI, ...

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