Tag: AI
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DevOps vs. Platform Engineering
Midjourney: a Soviet style poster with a software developer standing triumpantly on-top of a pile of software developers robots. Names are magic I don’t really know what I think about the idea and movement of “platform engineering.” It definitely has the feel of a market and category now. I reference it all the time, as…
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Setting time on fire and the temptation of The Button – If you value writing by the time put into it (“thoughtfulness”), the AI stuff is going to mess with your judgements. // “Now consider all the other tasks where the final written output is important because it is a signal of the time spent…
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An Infinite Game: Interview with Laurel Schwulst – “when I use ChatGPT, I’ve noticed that I’m getting better at talking to a computer. To me, it underscores how amazing the ability to simply have conversations is. And if you’re someone who enjoys having conversations with yourself, I think it helps if you personify the different…
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Can Watsonx Rebuild IBM’s AI Relevance? – Analysis of IBM’s AI stuff. Also, a good side point: no one really knows anymore what IBM does.
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Majority of Americans have heard of ChatGPT, but few have tried it – “Just 14% of U.S. adults have tried ChatGPT” – until that gets up to 50%, a lot of the freaking (& hype) is like fearing necromancy. Once you use it a lot you’re like “oh, I see. Not a threat. That dumb-ass…
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How Ecosystems Are Changing Insurance CX – An example of using digital stuff to improve insurance, here car insurance claims. Also, not the point of needing to integrate with all sorts of third parties and systems: “Vehicle claims are often complicated, involve several parties, and take a long time to resolve. Each participant in the…
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Don’t wait until 2025, you should be using generative AI stuff for most all of your marketing work today
Suggested theme song for this episode: 30% in 2025 implies low use in 2023 From the recent Gartner Marketing Symposium highlights: 64% of marketers have deployed, or are piloting, AI/ML to support autonomous campaign creation, execution, and optimization capabilities. [But:] Gartner predicts that by 2025, 30% of outbound marketing messages from large organizations will be…
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The secret of selling your product to enterprises – Sales is hard and expensive because of all the time and activities it takes, only the multi-quarter timeline, etc.
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Economist Daron Acemoglu: ‘When mistakes involve powerful technologies, you’re going to have trouble’ – ‘He imagines a day when teachers could use AI to create individual lesson plans for every student, or nurses might be able to take on much greater roles in, for example, diagnosing diseases. “Why is it that nurses cannot prescribe medications?…
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Dumping links like Galileo dumped the orange – There’s a lot going on here: ‘These are the interesting discussions we could be having about these tools, if we could stop letting mediocre billionaire live rent-free in our heads as they hold flashlights under their chins and intone “Aaaaaaaay Eyeeeeeeee” in their spookiest voices. These guys…
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AI Act: a step closer to the first rules on Artificial Intelligence – “AI systems with an unacceptable level of risk to people’s safety would be strictly prohibited, including systems that deploy subliminal or purposefully manipulative techniques, exploit people’s vulnerabilities or are used for social scoring (classifying people based on their social behaviour, socio-economic status,…
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A Formula For Pitching CIOs – Pretty good for any pitch.
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IBM Watson missed the AI revolution, but Watsonx could become the heartbeat of the Generative Enterprise – Overview of the three parts of Watsonx, and discussion of what the deal is with it. I joined the waitlist.
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IBM looks to turn nearly 8,000 jobs over to artificial intelligence, CEO says – ’“I could easily see 30% of that getting replaced by AI and automation over a five-year period,” Krishna told Bloomberg News, referring to “back-office” positions such as in human resources.’”
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What Computers Do At Banks, deployment frequencies, some platform engineering, microservices nothing burger(?)
What Computers Do At Banks Here’s two diagrams from a 2021 BCG report on banking that show, basically, everything that IT does for the business part of retail banking. First, the “value streams,” or lines of business and products: Second, what the typical IT stacks look like to support these value streams: Pretty good stuff!…
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The Cloudcast: How AI will Impact Cloud-native – This is incredibly comprehensive.
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Will A.I. Become the New McKinsey? – “Today, we find ourselves in a situation in which technology has become conflated with capitalism, which has in turn become conflated with the very notion of progress. If you try to criticize capitalism, you are accused of opposing both technology and progress. But what does progress even mean,…
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