I enjoy puzzles. Especially the constraint-satisfaction kind like they have on the qualitative section of the GRE. I have one of those page-a-day puzzle calendars that I work each morning while brushing my teeth. Here’s one from a couple weeks ago: Insert the letters A to J, one per square, Read more
The ink is barely dry on Generative AI and AI Agents, and now we have a new next big thing: Agentic AI Sounds impressive. By the time this article comes out, there’s a good chance that Agentic AI will be in the rear-view mirror and we’ll all be chasing after 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 asking for: interpretability or explainability. Both seek to understand the 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 reading the ChatGPT analysis of HR-1, a.k.a. “The Big Beautiful 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 models is not new. Just a few examples: AI is 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 Data Modelers. Unfortunately, too often their work products, while admired 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. Most advances have been beneficiaries of Moore’s Law: faster processing, 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 time. It doesn’t help that AGI is a nebulous concept. Read more
We expect computers to be perfect. We usually don’t give it a second thought. We expect the document opened today to look exactly the same as it did when it was saved last night. We expect the data inserted in a database to be returned when queried. That is unless Read more
A popular perception of artificial intelligence comes from the Menacing Computer movie genre. Skynet becomes self-aware and seeks to exterminate humanity. HAL9000 kills Discovery’s crew when they plan to disconnect it. Joshua wants to play a game of Global Thermonuclear War. And we’re all trapped in the matrix. Yes, there Read more