Tag: AI
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Big Tech is pushing ‘AI agents.’ They’ll need intimate access to your data. – (1) The next big bump in AI productivity and change will come when enterprises give it access to all the data, (2) historically, access to data for the people who need it is a huge bottleneck, (3) give the advertising tech…
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Why are corporations cutting managers? – “a large share of a company’s work force does not produce widgets. Instead, they produce organizational capital.” // Also, what if employee (individual contributor) productivity meant less managers?
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Integrating AI Agents into Companies – Changing how organizations work to fit what AI can do. Also, you need context about the organization: as always access to data will be a bottleneck, which is to say, governance and meetings.
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OpenAI finally launches screen and live video observation for paying ChatGPT users – CISO’s must be freaking the fuck out about this.
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Why I Let AI Grade My Writing (Just Like My AP English Teacher) – “In business, we don’t often receive the relentless coaching of a great teacher, but with AI, the red pen is just a mouse click away.”
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The State Of Business Buying: Companies Still Struggle To Meet Buyer Expectations – “Buyers are increasingly dissatisfied. Eighty-seven percent of buyers express dissatisfaction with the provider they choose at the end of a “successful” purchasing process. Price is the reason cited most often — but there are others that are perhaps more instructive. Buyers are…
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How Toyota is revolutionizing manufacturing with AI | Google Cloud Blog – All your hybrid/multi-cloud stuff like bursting and on-premises access, mixed in with AI uses, including training models. Some notes on introducing agile practices and CI/CD for the AI apps and uses. A Google Cloud customer, too.
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AI in organizations: Some tactics – Many great, practical ideas about how to use AI daily. And none of that shitty clickbait crap.
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FOMO is not a strategy • Buttondown – Enterprise AI as more “personal efficiencies rather than organisational gains” // Also, you need your data cleaned and structured. And, applying AI at an organizational level is likely difficult.
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Enterprises need AI middleware, not just models
AI Stone Soup One of my co-workers, AI Adib, pointed me towards the AI stone soup, uh…analogy? Parable? Anyhow, the point of it is that the models at the core of all this AI stuff are cool, but it’s the layers and layers of applications and people on-top that make the difference. The app that…
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Dell’s stock falls on weak guidance, as more customers hold off for next-gen AI servers – Modeling the AI market tricky, they say: ‘Dell Vice Chairman and Chief Operating Officer Jeff Clarke (pictured) told analysts on a conference call that growth of artificial intelligence server sales is likely to swing quite wildly from quarter to…
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Where do modernized apps go to live?
Where are people putting their modernized apps? Here’s a recent survey chart on that topic from 451: Recent Content Three things for you today: The private cloud equilibrium – my most recent attempt to figure out how much private cloud is out there. Platform Engineering and UK Digital People, with Abby Bangser – this week’s…
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The Rise of AI Agent Infrastructure – We’re all figuring out what “agent” means in AI land. It’ll probably end up meaning nothing if us marketing people do our jobs of claiming that we all do it.
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AI is reshaping call center work in the Philippines – Rest of World – ‘“AI is not to replace people but to help people become more productive,” she said. “If you needed 10 team members before, maybe now you only need five.”’ // Hmm, those two statements don’t seem to go together.
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Rewiring the way McKinsey works with Lilli, our generative AI platform – “30% time savings in searching and synthesizing knowledge.” // Worth reflecting on how much of this is pulling together all the stuff for monthly status updates to management, a huge time suck for office workers. Much of it is probably bullshit work, but…
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There is no open source business model. It’s always about selling something that’s closed source, or, at least, proprietary
Open Source $$$ Ethics, How Analysts use AI, Advanced Chicken Nugget Diplomacy, with Rachel Stephens In this episode of Software Defined Interviews, Whitney Lee and Coté dive into the insights of Rachel Stephens from RedMonk about the world of being an industry analyst. They discuss experiences from working as an analyst, the balance between qualitative…
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The Future Of B2B Buying Will Come Slowly … And Then All At Once – “Six months later, a little more than 18 months after ChatGPT launched, we polled B2B buyers for the first time about whether they are using generative AI. The genAI adoption numbers were shocking. The overwhelming majority, 89% of buyers in…
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Business spending on AI surged 500% this year to $13.8 billion, says Menlo Ventures – “The report found code generation is the leading use case for generative AI, with more than half of survey responses naming that as a dominant use. Support chatbots came next, at 31%, followed by enterprise search and retrieval, data extraction…
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Private cloud is just fine, and here to stay, so build a great platform for yourself
I did a second interview with the GM of my division at work, Tanzu. The first one was about Prunima’s career in IT management and, now, cloud. This second one is all about private cloud. Here’s a video except: Here’s a summary from our AI friend: When it comes to cloud infrastructure, Purnima Padmanabhan, Tanzu…
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What hacks/tips do you use to make AI work better for you? – “Treating [AI chatbots] like a coach – tell it what you’ve done and need to get done, include any feedback you’ve had, and ask it for suggestions. This particularly helps when you’re some kind of neurospicy and ‘regular human’ responses sort of…
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