I recently read a paper that was able to quantitatively illustrate something I already knew from qualitative experience: LLMs love tech: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016328725001673?via%3Dihub. Even when I ask it for social trends or political trends, it ends up giving me technology trends. LLMs are trained and programmed by techno-optimists. So, it should be no surprise that everybody's … Continue reading Use Your Illusion: AI loves tech and you don’t have to
Category: Strategic Foresight
We're coming up on the third year of LLM hype after ChatGPT 3.5 launched in November 2022. At the time, everyone was struggling to understand the technology and its implications for society in the present and the future. The primary thing that I have learned since joining the team to integrate LLMs into Shaping Tomorrow: … Continue reading Hallucinations are the Feature, Not the Bug
Recently, Marco Bevolo, PhD, Adj. Prof. and I sat with Filiberto Amati of Amati & Associates for a podcast interview on Growth, Brands and More. We discuss some of the work we have been doing with Shaping Tomorrow, University of Breda, and World University of Design which we are currently publishing about through various outlets. … Continue reading Podcast Interview on Foresight and Strategy
Is technological unemployment really necessary or even viable? That’s a much bigger question than I currently have time to research. However, my co-author, Marco Bevolo, and I begin to address the issues in our latest essay, Automating Liminality in Foresight Practice. In it, we explore how “hallucinations” brought on by AI could be a catalyst for … Continue reading Automating Liminality
The post below is a hasty collection of notes from a presentation for the Association of Professional Futurists (APF) which I was meant to share with Dr. Mike Jackson, Shaping Tomorrow's Chairman. Unfortunately, I had some technical difficulties, and Mike had to give the whole presentation himself. I have posted these notes to provide the basic … Continue reading Machine Futuring vs. Computer Aided Futuring
