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“He’s not the Messiah, he’s a very naughty boy!”. Any excuse to quote Monty Python! But Terry Jones was far more than just an anarchic comic - a film director, historian, author, poet, and scholar of medieval literature! A true polymath. Happy Friday
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Contemporary Polymaths – Who was Terry Jones?
Terry Jones has a new statue … he is celebrated on the seafront of his hometown, Colwyn Bay, as the Nude Organist from Monty Python’s Flying Circus.
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November 14, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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Tis (almost) the season to be jolly, unless you’d prefer to be furious about Coke’s 2025 Xmas ad being AI-generated. The PMM team have looked at it & can't tell or don't care. 'Its the real thing' ... raised a smile tho!
#AI #CollectiveIntelligence #FutureofWork #Polymath

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Coca-Cola | Holidays Are Coming
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November 11, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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Will your work become faster cheaper & better without you? Read our perspective on the Insight Professional from our recent article published in Research World magazine. Lessons here for all knowledge workers!
#AI #CollectiveIntelligence #FutureofWork #Polymath
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Defending the Soul of Insight From The Barbarians At The Gate
This article was first published in ESOMAR’s Research World Magazine on 23rd October 2025
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November 3, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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This week Amazon Snr exec, Beth Galetti, said the business needed to be “organised more leanly” to capitalise on the opportunities from AI. “Leanly” equates to 14,000 jobs lost! At what point do we tip into full blown white collar recession?
#AI #CollectiveIntelligence #FutureofWork #Polymath
November 1, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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The next scarce resource won’t be data or ‘compute’ but human-side skills. What were once deemed valuable degrees or technical credentials will lose out to cognitive adaptability, judgment, flexibility & creativity
#AI #CollectiveIntelligence #Polymath #FutureofWork
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The Power Skills Revolution
Leading the Human Response in the AI Workplace
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October 28, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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What number is binary 101010? How many pips are there on a pair of dice? What is the answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, & Everything? The answers are of course 42. This week we are considering what Douglas Adams would make of AI.
#AI #Polymath
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Mostly Harmless: What Douglas Adams Can Teach Us About AI
When people think of Douglas Adams, they tend to think of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: talking doors, Marvin the Paranoid Android, Deep Thought and its famous answer “42.” It’s easy to forget...
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October 17, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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What to make of AI? One day 95% of orgs have seen no value, and the next, we are on the cusp of superintelligence. Its either the greatest thing since the discovery of fire or a stochastic parrot!

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Beyond the Noise: Why AI’s True Direction Lies in Collective Human–AI Intelligence
If you’ve been following the AI debate, it’s easy to feel lost in the noise.
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October 8, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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Interesting article in FT this morning … ChatGPT responds to 18bn+ messages a week. In just 3 yrs it is used by more than 1 in 10 people. This is an adoption rate not achieved by the WWW for more than a decade after launch. Interesting?
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October 7, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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This week David & Adam have revisited a framework they created in 2024 exploring how the world of work, and your role in it, will change. Does it still stack up given what we are learning? Spoiler alert ... Yes!
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Our Brave New World Revisited
Does the latest data vindicate the model or consign it to the dustbin of history?
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October 1, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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Have you met a famous actor in the flesh? Cate Blanchett? Christian Bale? Tom Cruise? Tilly Norwood? She's been making waves lately with potential representation by talent agencies attracting criticism.
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Tilly Norwood: The 'Rising Star' We Should Be Worried About | Stellar
A concerning 'update' in the film industry
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October 1, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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Remember the Bladerunner scene when Harrison Ford administers a test to identify if something is human or a replicant? Could you be fooled by AI? Are LLMs just too creepily perfect? Welcome to the Uncanny Valley
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The Uncanny Valley of Words
Why Large Language Models Feel Eerie
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September 24, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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To accompany our latest article in Research World magazine, we were delighted to join the ESOMAR Talking Insights podcast to discuss Collective Intelligence
#AI #FutureofWork #Polymath #CollectiveIntelligence

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Talking Insights Podcast: Embracing our Inner Cyborg
The Future of Market Research
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September 18, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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Albania have created an AI cabinet minister! Sound silly? In a country plagued by corruption she(Diella) is intended to be incorruptible! We’ll see. But … consider the UK’s PPE contracting during pandemic, maybe an incorruptible decision maker is not a bad idea!
#AI #CollectiveIntelligence #Polymath
September 16, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Our latest article published in ESOMAR's Research World magazine looks at the evolution of human-AI 'Collective Intelligence' ... are you ready?
#AI #FutureofWork #Polymath #CollectiveIntelligence

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Learning to love your inner Cyborg!
Why Collective Intelligence is the real payoff of AI
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September 15, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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A bonus post this week on our Substack ... ever considered James T Kirk a model of polymathic thinking? Well, maybe not, but we think - with a little bit of latitude - we can make the case! Happy Friday

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Contemporary Polymaths – Who is James Tiberius Kirk?
Ah, that’s cheating, we hear you cry!
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September 12, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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Interesting debate last week at The DaVinci Network Polymath Festival 2025 on whether AI is the most extraordinary polymathic tool ever invented, or incomplete in important ways! Let's discuss
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Is AI the Ultimate Polymathic Tool — Or Forever Incomplete?
Every age has its own favourite metaphor for intelligence.
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September 9, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Another example of AI going off the deep end! Entertaining but not sure it tells us much
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Taco Bell rethinks AI drive-through after man orders 18,000 waters
The fast food chain is reassessing its use of the tech after a number of errors were shared widely online.
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August 29, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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Breakthroughs coming out of MIT! We suspect these ‘benefit cases’ will start to appear much more frequently as people have had time to get to grips with AI
#AI #FutureofWork #Polymath

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AI designs new superbug-killing antibiotics for gonorrhoea and MRSA
Two new potential drugs have been designed by AI to kill drug-resistant bacteria, in a major Massachusetts Institute of Technology study.
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August 14, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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DaVinci Network's Polymath Festival starts this Friday. For energizing mind expansion join the festival. We'll be sharing & celebrating what we have learnt from the various sessions & events.
Get your festival pass here:
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Polymath Festival 2.0 · Luma
Welcome to the world's leading ideas festival, exploring interdisciplinary solutions to complex world problems! The Polymath Festival will run from the 12th…
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August 14, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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This is not a great look for the government or The Turing Inst. As members of "the public", we - contrary to your stated belief- are very supportive of investigating the application of AI in areas of environmental sustainability & health!
#AI #FutureofWork #Polymath

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Staff fear UK's Turing AI Institute at risk of collapse
A complaint raises concerns about the funding risks and a
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August 14, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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The latest in our series on contemporary polymaths ... love him or loathe him, he has had a huge impact on the world we live in. There is plenty to disapprove of, but what can we learn from Elon Musk?

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Contemporary Polymaths – Who is Elon Musk?
Toward the top of any list of contemporary polymaths, you will find Elon Musk.
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August 12, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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As we all grapple with AI ... the real question isn’t whether AI will change your business, but rather will you shape that change—or be shaped by it? In this week's post Adam & David consider what lessons you can learn and apply
#AI #FutureofWork #Polymath
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Lessons from the bleeding edge!
What the Insight industry can teach us about AI and the future of knowledge work
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August 5, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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The final part of this week's 3-part video. David Smith reviews the skills we will need to stay relevant in the AI-Shaped workplace. For more on this, check out David and Adam's book ... The Art of Collaborating With AI (Routledge)
#AI #FutureofWork #Polymath
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Automation, Augmentation and the Human Advantage (Part 3)
The last episode in this week’s three-part video series.
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August 1, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Sam Altman compares the development of GPT-5 to The Manhattan Project & says it scares him. What are we to make of this? Perhaps that is not the best analogy to draw!
"Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds," J. Robert Oppenheimer
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OpenAI's CEO says he's scared of GPT-5
Not that it's slowing down development
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July 31, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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Here is the second part of our three part series, in which Prof. David Smith discusses augmentation and automation in the insight industry
#AI #FutureofWork #Polymath

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Automation, Augmentation and the Human Advantage (Part 2)
Part two of a three-part series on the impact of AI on the insight industry
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July 30, 2025 at 12:50 PM