Oh, the strategy pundits hate me! It’s not because I’m tall, good looking and from Iowa (well, 2 out of 3 ain’t bad), it’s because I think Strategy as a “Discipline” is way overblown. I won’t go as far as the Harvard Business Review to state that “Strategy is Dead”, but the importance of carefully defining a strategy (typically done in the ivory towers of the puzzle palace) and then commanding all the little soldiers to follow the strategy script are over!
… The Internet and Globalization have mitigated the economic, operational and cultural impediments traditionally associated with time and distance. We are an intertwined global economy. … So, my next two blogs are going to discuss: How does one develop and adapt data and AI strategies in a world of continuous change and transformation? Read More
Monthly Archives: June 2020
What is symbolic artificial intelligence?
This article is part of Demystifying AI, a series of posts that (try to) disambiguate the jargon and myths surrounding AI.
Today, artificial intelligence is mostly about artificial neural networks and deep learning. But this is not how it always was. In fact, for most of its six-decade history, the field was dominated by symbolic artificial intelligence, also known as “classical AI,” “rule-based AI,” and “good old-fashioned AI.” Read More
Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence: Together Driving the Organization of Today
Industry 4.0 or the fourth industrial revolution is predicted to revolve around data. Organizations that will thrive this revolution will be the ones that will realize the value of data as their corporate asset and make smart technology choices to make data-driven decisions. For the organizations of today to get future-ready, having smart analytical applications to bring together data from multiple sources, form a meaningful dataset, and accelerate the delivery of business value.
Artificial Intelligence is the technology that can fuel such smart analytical applications for instantaneous data analytics. Integrating AI into business operations can help organizations in ways that one cannot fathom. Read More
Do You Need an AI Product Manager
The role of Product Manager (PM) can mean many things dependent on the specifics of the company, its markets, its channels, and the variety of its products. It’s almost impossible to put a single label on the responsibilities of a PM except that he or she is responsible for all the features and capabilities of the products in their care. Read More
How AI and Machine Learning are Evolving DevOps
The automation wave has overtaken IT departments everywhere making DevOps a critical piece of infrastructure technology. DevOps breeds efficiency through automating software delivery and allowing companies to push software to market faster while releasing a more reliable product. What is next for DevOps? We need to look no further than artificial intelligence and machine learning.
Most organizations quickly realize the promise of AI and machine learning, but often fail to understand how they can properly harness them to improve their systems. That isn’t the case with DevOps. DevOps has some natural deficiencies that are difficult to solve without the computing power of machine learning and artificial intelligence. They are key to advancing your digital transformation. Here are three areas where AI and machine learning are advancing DevOps. Read More
This Bot Hunts Software Bugs for the Pentagon
Late last year, David Haynes, a security engineer at internet infrastructure company Cloudflare, found himself gazing at a strange image. “It was pure gibberish,” he says. “A whole bunch of gray and black pixels, made by a machine.” He declined to share the image, saying it would be a security risk.
Haynes’ caution was understandable. The image was created by a tool called Mayhem that probes software to find unknown security flaws, made by a startup spun out of Carnegie Mellon University called ForAllSecure. Haynes had been testing it on Cloudware software that resizes images to speed up websites, and fed it several sample photos. Mayhem mutated them into glitchy, cursed images that crashed the photo processing software by triggering an unnoticed bug, a weakness that could have caused headaches for customers paying Cloudflare to keep their websites running smoothly. Read More
DeepMind Made A Superhuman AI For 57 Atari Games!
Microsoft sacks journalists to replace them with robots
Dozens of journalists have been sacked after Microsoft decided to replace them with artificial intelligence software.
Staff who maintain the news homepages on Microsoft’s MSN website and its Edge browser – used by millions of Britons every day – have been told that they will be no longer be required because robots can now do their jobs. Read More
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