I have been keeping an eye on the hype & hope around artificial intelligence (AI), especially:| Harold Jarche
Month: March 2023 | jarche.com
In 2019 I summarized my observations about innovation in — What is innovation? I concluded that while innovation may be 15 different things to 15 different people, I still found nine general guidelines.| Harold Jarche
In what is likely the best example of my mantra that ‘work is learning and learning is the work’, Nokia’s Chairman Risto Siilasmaa describes how he learned about machine learning because everyone was talking about it but he still did not understand it enough to describe it. Frustrated, he was acting like many of his fellow executives| Harold Jarche
Race Bannon sees AI (or really machine learning) changing many jobs, such as technical writing, in the near future.| Harold Jarche
Month: December 2022 | jarche.com
A seminal moment in my work came when I saw my first web page on a computer at Montreal’s CRIM in 1994. I finally saw computers as things that connect people around the globe. From here I completed a Master’s degree focusing on how people learn at work with information technology.| Harold Jarche
I wrote the next two paragraphs in a blog post last year — we have met the enemy.| Harold Jarche
I have been using the tetrad (four sides) derived from Marshall & Eric McLuhan’s Laws of Media for several decades. I find it useful for examining emerging technologies, beyond the hype. For example, according to Derrick de Kerckhove, Director of the McLuhan Program in Culture & Technology at the University of Toronto, the Laws of Media state that every new medium (or technology in the broader sense of the word):| Harold Jarche