Industry voice: Narrow AI is the Filofax of the 21st Century

Industry voice: Narrow AI is the Filofax of the 21st Century   Back in the 1980s and early 1990s the Filofax was de rigueur for execs who wanted to be seen to be going places. But while it was a symbol it was also a useful tool. It combined a replaceable diary with a contacts book and notes pages, and you could have all sorts of extras, including a plastic insert page to hold a calculator. Back in the day this was pretty sophisticated stuff. Now we expect all of this and much, much more on a smartphone. The problem is that even though we do have access to lots of very useful digital tools on single devices they are not actually in one place. Read more >