“Good afternoon. This is Domino’s Pizza. What can I get started for you?” “Hi. Yes. I’d like a thousand assorted large pizzas delivered tonight.” “Very well. Where would you like them delivered to? “The Pentagon. Add it to the tab.” Read more
An AI made a decision. You want to know why it decided the way it did. Seems reasonable. Well, reasonable depending upon the AI technique being used. Some are more transparent than others. First, we need to know what we’re Read more
Last week in the Reservoir of Ideas, I discussed bias in generative models and the impact of the data that’s fed to them. As luck would have it, a couple days later, a colleague reposted a TikTok video of a woman Read more
One of the most significant areas of Data Ethics concern is bias in generative AI models. Concerns about algorithmic bias are not new. Associative model (i.e. neural network) bias is not new. Even the ceding of consequential decisions to these Read more
In the holiday classic, It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, and earlier in the October 25, 1961 Peanuts comic strip, Linus Van Pelt famously says: There are three things I’ve learned never to discuss with people: religion, politics, and the Read more
This is the second installment of a two-part series about the impact of AI on information management. The first covered Data Quality and Metadata Collection. Data Modeling Nobody at your company is more passionate about understanding the data than your Read more
“The Golden Eagle award is presented to a senior who soars beyond the expectations of others. On first impression, people expect all sorts of different things about each of us; some we have to strive to meet and some we Read more
We are at the threshold of the most significant changes in information management, data governance, and analytics since the inventions of the relational database and SQL. At their core, these areas have changed very little over the past thirty years. Read more
The last class I needed to graduate from college was Statistics. I wasn’t avoiding it, but I wasn’t excited about it either. Statistics classes were taught out of a couple different departments, but “Math Stats” was the required option. There Read more
Recent advances in large language models have reignited interest in Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). It’s coming soon! Just like it has every couple of decades since the 1950s. But the trajectory of recent successes make it seem more plausible this Read more