Starting a business is always a challenge. The number of things you have to do is so immense that if you would list them all up front, nobody in their right mind would ever, ever do it. One of the items on that list is to define a business model…

Another day full of stories of doom and gloom for humankind by the artificial hand of artificial intelligence. In March, the Future of Life Institute (catchy name!) issued an open letter to pause the development of AI with famous people signing it. A few weeks ago Yuval Noah Harari argued…

Hydrogen, the first element in the periodic table and the most abundant element in the universe, is portrayed as another source of clean energy. You might be wondering what hydrogen has to do with computers and why would I bring up this topic. I want to illustrate the pitfalls which…

The year was 1874. Max Planck was told by his professor there was not much left to do within the realm of theoretical physics. Fast-forward a bit to 1943 and Thomas Watson predicted that the world wouldn’t need more than 5 computers. …

OpenAI’s ChatGPT just reached another low. Not only did they release a circus monkey to the wild, but together with Microsoft they created hype while hiding the true evil behind their flowery talk about responsibility, accountability, no-bias, and the AI’s amazing capabilities. OpenAI is now funded by Microsoft, creating the…

According to ChatGPT, Brian Hood, mayor of a place called Hepburn Shire in Australia, was found guilty and served prison time in a foreign bribery scandal involving a subsidiary of the Reserve Bank of Australia in the early 2000s. The problem for ChatGPT? It’s not true. He didn’t do it…

We should pause any development of AI for the next 6 months. That’s the message from the Future of Life Institute, which published an open letter which subsequently was signed by about 1,700+ people by the time I started writing this article. Headlined “Pause Giant AI Experiments” the letter goes…

It is fashionable these days to talk about the AI revolution. A few years ago the theme was Big Data. Before that? Who cares. Despite the talk about using computers to do marvelous things, many organizations are still crunching data in their spreadsheets that are sent around by email. I…

With AI, we have a new gold rush. We’ve seen myriad articles debating the usefulness or fallacy of Large Language Models (LMM). At the center of it, there’s OpenAI and ChatGPT. We’re seeing a brewing conflict between Microsoft and Google over who can best take advantage of this new innovation…