What is the central argument of the paper?
For designing a succesful innovation one needs to consider interests and perspectives of everyone involved in the process and anticipate the future needs for certain technology
What does interessement mean in this context?
interesets of customers for the technology
align people to have an own interest to invest and support your technology
interests of funders and inventors
What is the example in the paper and why did it fail according to the terms of interessment?
solar powered lamp
The product was only relevant for French developers and companies, local societal groups were not involved in the technological development and sceptism rised (French colonial history)
Why did many innovations fail?
One should know the customers and have a coalition of people which help you to to flexible change and adapt your technology
Example: Motorola which failed to anticipate the need for a smartphone
How can ChatGPT be seen in a perspective of interessement?
reinforcement loop, model generates answers that the users like
user interface, e.g. in contrast to GPT3
OpenAI was commercialised by the time ChatGPT become popular
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