The past few years have seen the rapid proliferation of large language model-based AI solutions. LLMs have been treated like existing cloud services which are low cost even at large scale. Recent developments are shedding light on the fact that LLMs might be quite a bitter costlier than many believed. In this episode of Talk…
Many knowledge workers feel the need to pay attention to everything single thing happening in their industry, company, and organization. There’s a real fear that if they miss something, it will hurt their performance. Can AI with its ability to sort and summarize large bodies of unstructured data come to our rescue? As I discuss…
We are used to trading a bit of our data for free services. If you’re not the customer, you’re the product, as the saying goes. Increasingly, even when we pay for products, our data often gets collected and monetized. Trading data for a free service seems fair. When you’re paying for a product, I would…
American Bulk by Emily Mester We Americans love to consume. Mester shares her family’s story centered around what they buy and keep. She shares different psychological reactions to past scarcity and how we manage that fear. This book of linked essays will make you think about your own purchasing and accumulation of stuff. Evicted by…
Responsible AI grounds system design within a framework of principles that define desired behavior and outcomes. These principles can align to a moral code of ethics, provide business risk mitigation, or a combination of the two. While the framework may consistent across organizations, each organization may have unique definitions for each principle. For example, RAI…
You are surprised that everyday people aren’t excited about a dystopian future. Eric Schmidt and several other college commencement speakers were booed when they mentioned AI and how it will impact the lives of graduates. Graduation should be a time of celebrating accomplishment and embracing the adventure of the future. AI is an unwelcome guest…
It wasn’t all that long ago that organizations purchased and maintained their own computers to run websites, mail servers, databases, and the myriads of other applications that make up our techno-landscape. This was a hassle that distracted the organization from its core purpose. Along came cloud computing as a solution. You could rent just the…
AI chatbots engaging in therapy-style conversations may seem like a new phenomenon that emerged with ChatGPT and its ilk. But we actually have to go back to 1966 to find the first AI-based therapy bot. This system was named Eliza and utilized simple grammatical rules to provide appropriate conversational feedback to user input. Eliza was…
In the summer of 1956, the promise to simulate human intelligence was enough to fund an eight-week research workshop for a group of computer science researchers. This endeavor created the brand, “Artificial Intelligence”. Despite the funding and the legendary participants, the mysteries of the human mind weren’t solved during that summer session. Artificial Intelligence isn’t…
Good Writing by Neal Allen and Anne Lamont Sentences are the atomic building blocks of writing. These rules will turn you into a ruthless writing chemist. A Little Devil in America by Hanif Abdurraqib Abdurraqib is one of my favorite writers. A Little Devil explores the history and implications of Black performance in America. As…