Back in the mid-1990s, I was part of a small team at Intel that worked on the project called WIINGS that managed indirect inventory and was critical to their factory stores. We were told that the ERP rollout will replace our software within a year. Decades later, its core logic still runs, largely untouched, while… Read More: Is SaaS dead? »
In one of our internal annual leadership conferences at Intel, Diane Bryant, our then CIO, conducted a break-out session on out-of-the-box / lateral thinking. We were ~20 people in her session when she asked us all to write down the maximum number of use cases for a metal-wire hanger, you know the flimsy ones that… Read More: What beyond co-pilot? »
In case you have not yet caught on to the latest hype around AI, let me introduce you to the concept of vibe coding. It is popularized by Andrej Karpathy, an AI researcher, whose credentials are impressive and therefore his tweet hit more than 4 million views. I show the snapshot of the actual tweet… Read More: Are you vibing yet? »
The new shiny toy are AI agents. Reminds me of the LLM hype from about two years ago. Many ‘experts’ are now touting AI agents to be the endgame in AI, just like they were touting LLMs to be the rise of sentient machines. I was amused to read such an article claiming the rise… Read More: AI Agents »
The narrative is being repeated and recycled and is taking a life of its own, just like all narratives do. You will be replaced by AI or You will be replaced by someone who knows how to use AI. In essence, you’re screwed unless you jump onto the AI bandwagon! The fear mongering will result… Read More: AI Disruption »
The year 2025 should see rapid adoption of AI within the enterprise. The ones that plan to continue with wait-and-watch strategy will end up watching their competitors eat their lunch in market share. The time to plunge into AI is NOW! The biggest barrier to introduce new technology in corporate is trying to figure out… Read More: A framework for AI adoption »
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: The case against AI alignment »
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: Paradigm shift… without a clutch »
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: Will AI take your job? »
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: (AI) Winter is coming… »