Obituaries for generative AI have started trickling in across the media, with one widely shared Fast Company piece predicting an AI winter for reasons typical of any technology’s early phase. Those of us who lived through the Internet’s boom-and-bust cycle remember identical predictions about the World Wide Web’s demise, including one from Robert Metcalfe, the…
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 entirely blame them. I saw the…
The decline came faster than anyone expected. Recent reports of ChatGPT ‘getting dumber’ should give pause to every enterprise rushing to adopt AI without a readiness assessment or a feasibility study first. There’s a lot of noise and recycled content in circulation right now. In the last month alone, I’ve read executive reports from multiple…
In my short story AI.GOV, I posit that no intelligence will ever surpass that of its creator. Nothing ChatGPT or any other generative model has done since has changed my opinion. The pleas for legislation to limit AI development have far more to do with corporate politics and land-grabbing than with any genuine threat. These…
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…
Since ChatGPT launched, the public conversation has swung from utopia to existential risk within a single news cycle. I call it AI’s ‘Netscape moment’, the point a technology stops being a lab curiosity and starts rearranging boardroom agendas. [Bias filter] I’m not a research scholar with an advanced degree, a serial entrepreneur, or a social-media…
A while ago I mentioned in one of my blogs how AI can replace the HR department and bring more objectivity to the staffing, hiring and other HR processes. But what if, the AI itself introduces a bias? After all, the algorithms are developed by ‘natural intelligence’ and the training and validation data sets are…
Hyperbole and fearmongering aside, AI’s reach into every corner of business and public life will keep accelerating. We’re fast approaching the phase where putting ‘AI’ in bold on a slide deck is enough to pique investor interest, regardless of how rudimentary or absent the actual use of it is. I want to widen the lens…
More than 250,000 patents get filed in the US every year, and every serious hi-tech company guards its IP with teams of lawyers, even for patents that never make it into a shipping product. Run the actual cost-benefit math on that portfolio and most CxOs would find it eye-opening. The driver is fear of being…
Every sales org has a handful of people with the golden touch; they walk in and close over a handshake while everyone else studies their style and never quite matches the throughput. Charisma? Product knowledge? Reading the customer? Some mix of all three, or just luck? Sales has always been more art than science. That’s…