AI

Harry Yeff: building the digital Second Self

By Adam Tinworth

Can AI be a creative assistant, mentor and even opponent? Harry Yeff thinks so, and he wants us to embrace a narrative of hope.
LJ Rich: The Taste of Music, Synesthesia and the future of AI creativity

By Adam Tinworth

AI is limited by what we train it. But, as people with different perceptions of the world like LJ rich well understand, diversity of perception can trigger creativity.
Matt Webb: playfully inventing our way into the AI future

By Adam Tinworth

The future of AI might reside in a long-forgotten past of computing. Matt Webb leads us along the path not taken to a more useful form of AI.
Searching for the Exit Routes

By David Mattin

Will technology save us or doom us? AI is the latest to be hailed as both saviour and destroyer. We need new ways of discussing the future.
Capability overhang, or the future of AI

By Martin Recke

The future of AI depends on what we imagine today. While we explore our new capabilities, imagination is the bottleneck.
AI Art: using generative art to enhance the human experience

By Adam Tinworth

Artists like REEPS100 are paving the way for using AI to enhance human life, not replace human workers.
Generative AI and the mystery of consciousness

By Adam Tinworth

The rapid advances in AI and large language models (LLMs) are raising questions about sentience and consciousness we can’t yet answer.
The office of the future won’t arrive anytime soon

By Martin Recke

We still don’t know what the office of the future will look like. But thanks to AI and the permacrisis, it will be leaner than before.
NEXT23 theme: Let’s get physical

By Martin Recke

The digital revolution is entering a new phase. It will lead to a fusion of digital and physical, and a rewrite of how the world works.
AI and the future of work

By Martin Recke

AI is going to change how we work. It will automate white-collar work. And we’ll see AI-first start-ups creating new markets.
Will AI eat software?

By Martin Recke

Software used to be expensive, but thanks to AI, it may soon be cheap. Will software developers lose their jobs?
What we can see now is the first percent of what is coming

By Oskar Trautmann, Wilhelm Rinke

An interview with Merantix Founder and AI Expert Adrian Locher.
Yes, here is yet another article on AI

By Oskar Trautmann, Wilhelm Rinke

Sure, you don’t need to read yet another article on AI. But this one might just surprise you…
Generative AI: humanity’s creative assistant is here

By Adam Tinworth

Image and text versions of generative AI are now available to most people. How will this technology impact the way we create art and write?
The next phase of the digital revolution

By Martin Recke

With massive shifts in power and control, the digital revolution is entering a new phase. The Accenture Life Trends 2023 report sums it up.
AI: the future of creativity?

By Adam Tinworth

AI-generated art and text are exploding in use — and quality. What does this mean for the future of artists and creativity? The NEXT Creative Stage explored this…
James Bridle: rethinking artificial intelligence on natural lines

By Adam Tinworth

Artist and writer James Bridle argues that by sticking to human models of intelligence, we're limiting AI's potential.
My summertime reading book list

By Matthias Schrader

Matthias Schrader stacked up his personal list of thought-leading book picks for this summer.
Business resilience – and the attack of the snails

By Adam Tinworth

Technology change is inevitable and unavoidable - but it's often surprisingly predictable. If you can't adapt to survive it, you deserve to face your own twilight of the gods…
A short walk through our first book

By Martin Recke

Here at NEXT, we are somehow obsessed with the near future, culminating in the question: What's next? We've published a book, printed in German and as an e-book in both English and German, to spread some insights worth spreading.
NEXT18 Themes #1: Rediscovering the human in the digital

By Adam Tinworth

Perhaps it seems obvious, but the clear thread running through NEXT18 was that the digital fix we really needs is a digital industry that serves all humanity, not a handful of billionaires in Silicon Valley. The fightback starts here…
John Watton: using AI to humanise customer experience

By Adam Tinworth

Customer experience is becoming the critical differenciator for business. Counter-intuitively, AI could be the route to humanise the experience at scale.
Virginia Dignum: what ethical AI can do for us

By Adam Tinworth

Artificial intelligence is no longer a computer science problem alone. We need ethics expertise, legal expertise and more… A 30 year veteran of the field puts it in context for us.

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