Technology
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AI supplemented with Quantum Computing
Mainstream Quantum Computing (QC) is still couple of years away, may be a decade, but advancements in AI; supplemented by QC in its embryonic form is going to accelerate the rate of change for technology and business.Some industries such as finance, life science and pharma will benefit sooner than others.While we look with optimism for… Continue reading
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IT/Business without a proper Architecture
Architecture is not an inspirational business, it’s a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that’s all. —Harry Seidler The Winchester Mystery House in San Jose was built by William Winchester. Although it has approximately 160 rooms, it was missing something critical: it’s blueprint, it’s architecture. The house was built without an architect;… Continue reading
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VUCA and Future-fit Organizations
The U.S. Army War College coined the term VUCA in 1987 to describe or to reflect on the volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity of the post-Cold War world. The world today is much more VUCA than it was in 1987 and organizations need to be proactive in moving from an ad hoc approach to trendspotting… Continue reading
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Maximizing Business Value with Small Language Models (SLMs)
Organizations are finally coming close with the reality of how to responsibly use Large Language Models(LLMs) for the business use cases that are not merely experimental but provide real business value. While Large Language Models (LLMs) have been great with generic language understanding; they are costly to customize for a specific domain or simply for… Continue reading
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IT – ‘a strategic partner’ or merely a ‘cost centre’
ON APRIL FOOLS’ Day, Intel’s employee newsletter used to feature a farcical story whose joke was that it was obviously impossible. On April 1, 1998, the headline was “Intel IT Wins an Intel Achievement Award.” Everyone in the enterprise laughed—except, of course, for the IT employees. This happened more than two decades ago and since… Continue reading
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The Invisible Drain: AI’s Escalating Impact on Global Water Resources
Emerging technology is water thirsty. As more and more compute power is needed for AI this requires higher levels of cooling. Worldwide demand for AI could be responsible for withdrawing between 4.2 and 6.6 billion cubic meters of water by 2027 — almost half of the United Kingdom’s annual water consumption. There are countless examples… Continue reading
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Could current AI services be moving towards ‘Enshittification’?
Cory Doctorow a science fiction author has coined the term ‘enshittification’, which refers to; how online platforms win over millions of users by providing great service and delighting their users, but once they’ve established their position, they begin to prey on the new market they created. First, they come for their suppliers and advertisers, but… Continue reading
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AI Evolution
“AI will evolve more cheaply, more rapidly, and more autonomously than any technology we have ever seen”, seems like a bold prediction, but everything from cheap computational power using hardware like GPUs and TPUs to advancements in deep learning, self-enforcement learnings and NLPs using GPTs and BERT models are all coming together to support this… Continue reading
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AI regulations and Leadership responsibility
Across the world various government entities have introduced or enacted policies and regulations for AI that will impact organizations. Some of them are: The common theme, regardless of geographical region, is that business leaders need to either step up or step aside. The overall message is that if you are in a leadership role, you… Continue reading
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