Why So Few Matt Levines? - There’s not enough news with the same types of events that happen over and over with clear, public records.
McDonald’s touchscreen kiosks were feared as job killers. Instead, something surprising happened - If you can come up with other ways staff can spend time, automation could be good for workers and customers. For example, come up with more complex products that require more human touch, speeding up delivery, or just busing tables. But, yeah, if you’re not going to change your business, then automation probably means firing people.
OpenAI Is Growing Fast and Burning Through Piles of Money - That’s what you call “real money”: “OpenAI’s monthly revenue hit $300 million in August, up 1,700 percent since the beginning of 2023, and the company expects about $3.7 billion in annual sales this year…. it expects to lose roughly $5 billion."
Enterprise Philosophy and The First Wave of AI - AI is (too) expensive for what it does, and thus far clunky, so it will need to start in the enterprise space where companies can get good ROI.
3 Key Practices for Perfecting Cloud Native Architecture - Some notes on cloud native architecture and app patterns. That is, apps you want to run in container platforms like Cloud Foundry or Kubernetes.
Beyond Infrastructure as Code: System Initiative Goes Live - “In practice, as Jacob has pointed out, this has led to unwieldy, hard-to-update and difficult-to-understand systems built on static definitions. The tools are tightly tied to a version control, making them brittle and difficult to work with. And only elite companies, such as Google, can deploy multiple times in a day with this approach as Jacob (and others) have argued."
Gemini at Work 2024: How customers use Google Cloud AI products - More on the “agent” metaphor/thought technology Gemini is using. Plus, a really great list of one-liner, enterprise AI uses cases.
IBM AI simply not up to the job of replacing staff - If the AI tools don’t work well, it’s hard to get but results. Also, the enterprise AI coding assistant needs to know a lot more than PHP.
Google Cloud rolls out new Gemini models, AI agents, customer engagement suite - Big round-up of new Gemini stuff: “agents."