Fundamental properties of digital IT have set ons on a road not to a Singularity Point, but towards Complexity Crunch. That has consequences for our strategic (IT) choices and landscapes. A ‘long r…| R&A IT Strategy & Architecture
Gerben Wierda, one of the top IT professionals in Europe, guest posts on Colligo.| erikjlarson.substack.com
It turns out that AI has created a whole new language. Humans do not speak it, and they may even mistake it for talk about sex. But luckily Generative AI is able to translate it to something humans…| R&A IT Strategy & Architecture
Advisors need (a) to know what they are talking about and (b) be able to convince others. For architects, the first part is called ‘architecture’ and the second part could be called …| R&A IT Strategy & Architecture
The early machines at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution produced ‘cheap’ (in both meanings) products and it was the introduction of that ‘cheap’ category that was a…| R&A IT Strategy & Architecture
One of the use cases I thought was reasonable to expect from ChatGPT and Friends (LLMs) was summarising. It turns out I was wrong. What ChatGPT isn’t summarising at all, it only looks like it…| R&A IT Strategy & Architecture
Microsoft researchers published a very informative paper on their pretty smart way to let GenAI do ‘bad’ things (i.e. ‘jailbreaking’). They actually set two aspects of the f…| R&A IT Strategy & Architecture
The third ‘fragmentation wave’ of the IT-revolution is upon us, it seems. Fragmentation/encapsulation is a repeated pattern in the IT-revolution for managing complexity. First as object…| R&A IT Strategy & Architecture
Thanks to Gary Marcus, I found out about this research paper. And boy, is this is both a clear illustration of a fundamental flaw at the heart of Generative AI, as well as uncovering a doubly probl…| R&A IT Strategy & Architecture
ChatGPT has acquired the functionality of recognising an arithmetic question and reacting to it with on-the-fly creating python code, executing it, and using it to generate the response. GeminiR…| R&A IT Strategy & Architecture
If we ask GPT to get us “that poem that compares the loved one to a summer’s day” we want it to produce the actual Shakespeare Sonnet 18, not some confabulation. And it does. It h…| R&A IT Strategy & Architecture
I came across a 2 minute video where Ilya Sutskever — OpenAI’s chief scientist — explains why he thinks current ‘token-prediction’ large language models will be able to become sup…| R&A IT Strategy & Architecture
Google’s Gemini has arrived. Google has produced videos, a blog, a technical background paper, and more. According to Google: “Gemini surpasses state-of-the-art performance on a range of benc…| R&A IT Strategy & Architecture
Should we be hopeful or scared about imminent machines that are as intelligent or more than humans? Surprisingly, this debate is even older than computers, and from the mathematician Ada Lovelace c…| R&A IT Strategy & Architecture
After watching my talk that explains GPT in a non-technical way, someone asked GPT to write critically about its own lack of understanding. The result is illustrative, and useful. “Seeing is …| R&A IT Strategy & Architecture
We should stop labelling the wrong results of ChatGPT and friends (the ‘hallucinations’) as ‘errors’. Even Sam Altman — CEO of OpenAI — agrees, they are more ‘features…| R&A IT Strategy & Architecture