Published in 1999 The other day when I visited Amazon to order additional books, I was happy to see that I was welcomed by name and the page listed some recommendations based on my previous purchases. So, I thought of browsing the list of recommended books but to my disappointment I already had all of… Read More »
Published in 1999 That is what everyone hears these days, mostly from the executive staff of dotcoms, that the ‘old’ rules of business no longer apply. It is being said that the e-commerce and e-business is so different from bricks & mortar business that we cannot measure, be it stock price or other indicators, with… Read More »
Published in 1997 One of the most challenging but often underestimated task is that of managing an IT (software development) project. It is disheartening to see that almost everyone assumes that software projects will overrun their budget and will always be delayed, no matter how much money or resources you throw at them. Thanks to… Read More »
I was listening to the recent Lex Fridman’s podcast episode with Dario Amodei and the Anthropic team on the topic of AGI, AI and (of course) the future of humanity. It appears to me that the creators of AI feel obligated to talk about the risks of AI going berserk and killing us all and… Read More »
One sure sign that the hype of any technology is ebbing is when you see the media coverage and articles that are insightful, pragmatic, less hyperbolic and are not recycled content. In recent months, I have observed such green shoots related to AI. My gut instinct is that most of the enterprise have conducted one… Read More »
“The journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step,” said Lao Tzu. It took me almost a decade from the time I had the idea of ‘theLie Llama’ and it took my co-host, Gunjan, and I about six months of deliberations to take the first step. Then it took us about four months… Read More »
It was interesting to see that the idea I had proposed in my blog on moral imperatives of AI about reskilling workers displaced by AI showed up in the policy discussions of India’s finance minister. In my most recent keynote for PMI Chapter of Gujarat, India, the same question came up again – will my… Read More »
Obituaries of Generative AI or artificial intelligence in general have started trickling in across the media. This article in Fast Company predicts the onset of AI winter for the reasons that are typical in the early phase of any technology transition. Those of us who saw the boom-and-bust or hype-and-disillusionment cycle of the Internet would… Read More »
All of a sudden, every company is an AI company! People who, a year ago, would have mistaken the acronym ‘LLM’ to be another flavor of ice-cream claim to be developing foundation models. When you start scratching the surface, their responses would put ChatGPT’s hallucinations to shame. I don’t blame them. I saw similar behaviors… Read More »
The decline came faster than anyone would have imagined. The recent reports of ChatGPT getting dumber raise concerns and, more importantly, should give a pause to all who are rushing to adopt AI without doing readiness assessment, feasibility study or AI transformation strategy. There is a lot of noise and recycled information floating around. In… Read More »