Conversational AI is changing the landscape. The possibility to interact with machines (applications) using natural language is a real game changer. So far we have been plagued with the so called IVRs, Intelligent Voice Responder, that are anything but intelligent (I don’t know about you but I always feel really …
Read More »It takes a lot of brain to deal with AI
In these last three years I had the pleasure of coordinating the Anitec Assinform AI Working Group. Besides the interaction with several players on the offer side (creating AI based tools, services, products) I got the opportunity of talking to companies from the demand side, the ones that are interested …
Read More »Moving from experiment to real life it’s harder than expected
Drones have come a long way in this last twenty years. From being secret military tools (and weapons) to additional gear for wedding photographers. Their price has plummeted and they have become so widely spread to create a problem in many environment to the point of being forbidden in several …
Read More »LLMs hitting 2 trillions parameters
The talk of the town in these last year has been on ChatGPT and because of that GPT-3 and GPT-4 took the center stage. These are Large Language Models -LLMs-, large, actually very large, because they have and are trained on a huge amount of data: GPT-3 has 175 billion …
Read More »A new kind of authors is rising. Is publishing changed forever?
The availability of tools supporting the writing of articles and books plus the availability of platforms to distribute them has reached a tipping point where more and more people are writing and collectively amateur writers output is exceeding the one of professional writers both in terms of production AND in …
Read More »Generative AI toolkit
Beyond the hype (and criticism) that have surrounded Generative AI we are seeing the growth of an ecosystem already including tens of companies that provide tools for the exploitation of this technology. What is of most interest, and this is something that was noted in the Artificial Intelligence working group …
Read More »Amazon joins the LLM bandwagon
Just yesterday I posed the question if we have reached an inflection point in the evolution of AI, shifting from an effort by researchers to push the evolution further to the AI taking the lead and self-evolving itself (by providing AI tools that allows researchers to accelerate the pace of …
Read More »Once upon a time …
I spent long hours when I was a little boy, just learnt to read, with Christian Andersen Fairy Tales and Stories, then with Grimm’s Fairy tales and then on, up to the Canterbury tales when I grew up (for the record, at school I also spent time on the …
Read More »Chip Shortage: a tangled web – IV
As I pointed out in the first post of this series the computer and the wireless (read smartphones) sectors use the lion’s share of chips produced (measured in dollars -value-, that is not the case if you measure in numbers where IoT -sensors- is having the greatest share). The value …
Read More »Packages are flooding our cities
eCommerce is not completely “e”. There are the products that are bought, warehouses to store them and of course trucks to move them around. To he more clicks there are, the more packages are moving around. How many? Some 131 billion in 2020 and it is expected to double by …
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