PinnedAnais MonlongThe Age of Hyper-fans: What content says about our society and its technologies (Intro & Part 1)For the newest instalment in the Indiana Jones franchise, writers had many options on the table. Perhaps this new epic could follow the…Jul 13, 2023Jul 13, 2023
Anais MonlongLLMs are Dead, Long Live LLMsGPT-4o, Mistral 7b, Llama 3 and friends are wonders of ingenuity and progress, but still suffer from significant limitations. Solving them…Jul 11Jul 11
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Anais MonlongThe Age of Hyper-fans, Part 7: The Return of Dystopias: Why Generative AI Won’t Destroy a Single…People are worried about losing control of their finances; people are worried about the meaning of their work; people are worried about…Nov 1, 2023Nov 1, 2023
Anais MonlongThe Age of Hyper-fans, Part 6: The Long March of Steamboat Willie: Why We Need a New Copyright…In business, revolutions are often nothing more than sudden changes in cost structures. Henry Ford’s Ford T was much cheaper to produce…Sep 18, 2023Sep 18, 2023
Anais MonlongThe Age of Hyper-fans, Part 5: The Little Mermaid, A Comeback of the Comeback: Why Disney is an…Nothing evokes community like board games, which are referred to in French as “Jeux de Société”, meaning games you play in “Society” (with…Sep 11, 2023Sep 11, 2023
Anais MonlongThe Age of Hyper-fans, Part 4: Lannisters Always Pay their Debts: Reputation & Solving (Gen-Z)…A criticism of the services company is that it is an organisation full of “bullshit jobs” and filled with the dreaded corporate creature…Aug 8, 2023Aug 8, 2023
Anais MonlongThe Age of Hyper-fans, Part 3: Marcus Aurelius Is So Passé: Web3, Community, and TrustMarcus Aurelius intuited that the path to happiness involved focussing on things under one’s control:Jul 25, 2023Jul 25, 2023
Anais MonlongLarge Language Models (“LLMs”): A Game of Consultants?Three months ago, companies were worried about being captive with OpenAI. OpenAI had, after all, just signed a huge partnership deal with…Jul 18, 2023Jul 18, 2023
Anais MonlongThe Age of Hyper-fans, Part 2: Katniss Everdeen vs.The heroes of contemporary literature, just like us (see Part 1), suffer greatly from the excesses of standardisation and processes — and…Jul 17, 2023Jul 17, 2023
