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AI — A Working Journey
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When Answers Become Easy, What Happens to Thinking?
AI is making answers easier to get. I’m beginning to wonder what else the effort of getting to an answer was doing for us.
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A market leader went from 25% to nearly 70% share in five years. Then a 130 year old global giant decided to enter the same market.
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