Étiquette : productivity

ZURU Tech – Why Build With ZURU

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“All great ideas need a key competitive advantage to be successful. At Walmart it was to stack product high and take less margin. McDonalds simplified the menu and created mass production of fast food, reducing prices and waiting times. The shipping container standardised freight, sped up loading and unloading times and increased security. Every business model that changed the world had at least one key competitive advantage. We aim to have several. Our goal is to design and manufacture any size of building from 1 floor to 80 floors and any style of building from a town house, hospital, office tower, school, apartment block and more, while still meeting the building codes in each country. We want to produce buildings for less than 10% of the cost in western markets and less than 50% in developing nations. Everything we do and think about is how to create customised buildings, disrupt the current cost structure and make the highest quality product in the world. To achieve our goals, we need to change the way we think about manufacturing, and it starts with Mass Production.”

Source : ZURU Tech – Why Build With ZURU

L’IA au bureau, entre perte de temps et perte de sens

“Même sentiment d’exaspération pour Laurent, 39 ans, consultant dans le secteur de la banque à Paris. « Il y a toujours un collègue en réunion qui suggère de demander l’avis de ChatGPT. On reçoit ensuite par e-mail un résumé empli de banalités, sans aucune réelle analyse. Ces messages, c’est comme les pubs sur Internet, on essaie de les ignorer, mais c’est difficile. » Confiant, Laurent espère voir les choses s’améliorer. « Après la phase d’excitation, on entre dans le tunnel de la désillusion. Je pense que les usages vont se rationaliser. Peut-être qu’on arrivera à la conclusion que l’IA ne sert pas à grand-chose ? » Comme Maxime et Laurent, Marie, trentenaire, rédactrice dans une agence de communication nantaise, est, malgré son scepticisme, fortement incitée à utiliser les IA. « Les gens surestiment le temps gagné. Dans la réalité, le gain sur nos missions est peut-être de 5 % si on ne veut pas rogner sur la qualité. L’IA s’apparente surtout à un stagiaire zélé à forte tendance mythomane. »”

Source : L’IA au bureau, entre perte de temps et perte de sens

“In a world where surveillance technology is being deployed everywhere from airports and stadiums to public schools and hotels and raising a plethora of privacy concerns, it’s perhaps inevitable that farms on land and at sea would find ways to exploit it to improve productivity. Just this year, American agribusiness giant Cargill Inc. said it was working with an Irish tech start-up on a facial-recognition system to monitor cows so farmers can adjust feeding regimens to enhance milk production. Scanners will allow them to track food and water intake and even detect when females are having fertile days. Salmon farming may be next in line. As fish vies with beef and chicken as the global protein food of choice, exporters like Norway, the world’s biggest producer of the pinkish-orange fish, have become the focal point for radical marine-farming methods designed to help the $232 billion aquaculture industry feed the world.”

Source : Salmon Farmers Are Scanning Fish Faces to Fight Killer Lice – Bloomberg

The narrow office specialist is increasingly a thing of the past

«General-purpose computers push back against Smith’s concern. Design a pretty graph, search the internet for cartoons for a presentation, use a price-comparison site to book some travel, craft an eloquent post on LinkedIn, and office life starts to look mildly entertaining — even if there isn’t much time left to do the jobs for which we’re paid. Setting games and social media aside, there are plenty of ways for workers to use their computers to do their jobs less efficiently while having more fun, perhaps without even meaning to. I suspect this is but a small part of the productivity slowdown. And I feel ambivalent about it. A day full of distractions is rarely satisfying. On the other hand, I would not wish to spend each hour sharpening 5,000 pins».

Source : Computers are making generalists of us all

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