Category Archives: Trends

Tim Berners-Lee: 35 years of Internet

Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the web, marked the 35th anniversary of its creation (March 12, 1989) with a letter about the big challenges web technology faces as it moves towards its fourth decade of existence. He sees monopoly power … Continue reading

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Decision Intelligence at Gartner Summit

Decision intelligence will be well presented at Gartner Data & Analytics Summit that starts on Mar 11 in Orlando. In particular, Erick Brethenoux, Distinguished VP Analyst, will present “Decision Intelligence and Optimization Across Your Enterprise and Ecosystem”. Here is the … Continue reading

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AI Pollution

“The amount of AI-generated content is beginning to overwhelm the internet. Or maybe a better term is pollute. Pollute its searches, its pages, its feeds, everywhere you look. I’ve been predicting that generative AI would have pernicious effects on our culture … Continue reading

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How the AI Boom Went Bust in the late 1980s

This article in Communications of the ACM describes the fallout from an exploding bubble of hype triggered the real AI Winter in the late 1980s. It explains the Rise and Fall of Expert Systems in the context of the re-invention … Continue reading

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Will 75% of digital products be obsolete in 3 years?

Gartner predicts that by 2027, 75% of data, digital or analytics products will be made obsolete, or marketplaces shut down, as “too few ‘customers’ came to use them.” Link

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Peter Norvig about Generative AI and Programming

Peter Norvig, the AI Authority for the last 40 years, recently shared his vision of Software in the age of Generative AI. He talks about the history and the future of programmers, programming languages, and the software industry. Link

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Gartner: “Decision-Centric” is surpassing “Data-Driven”

Gartner predicts that by 2028, 25% of chief data and analytics officer vision statements will become “decision-centric,” surpassing “data-driven” slogans, as human decision-making behaviors are modeled to improve data and analytics. Data alone doesn’t change decision-making behaviors, unless it is … Continue reading

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The importance of handwriting

The Economist published an interesting article “The importance of handwriting is becoming better understood”: “In modern life, writing means typing. Writing by hand has become an endangered species. But one series of studies has found a big advantage in note-taking … Continue reading

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YouTube to Auto-generate Video Summaries

YouTube is running a new test to auto-generate video summaries with the use of AI. As noted on the support page, the summaries have begun appearing on the watch and search pages, but are only available for a limited number of English-language … Continue reading

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The Black Belt Of Digital Decisions

In Jan-2017 Mike Gualtieri from Forrester published a report “Prescriptive Analytics: The Black Belt Of Digital Decisions” which tied Analytics to actionable Decisions. Mike wrote: “Enterprises must stop wasting time and money on unactionable analytics. These efforts don’t matter if the resulting … Continue reading

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