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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
In spite of 1000 leaders and researchers begging everyone to pause on AI, it continues to advance at an unprecedented pace. Every week, if not every day, a new tool or enhancements to the existing ones are announced. While the pace of AI cannot be paused, or stopped, the moral imperatives of AI cannot be… Read More »