IT, Data, Work
We often see and hear a lot of hype and – unfortunately – enshittification when it comes to GenAI. Despite knowing that there are indeed some valuable use cases for the application of AI to solve some issues, I rarely read about a employee friendly adoption of GenAI.
The article AI for Network Managers: Leading Teams in the Age of Intelligent Automation was a quite refreshing read in that regard!
(more…)Today morning I read a really nice article / blog post “The Day My Smart Vacuum Turned Against Me“. The whole story is about a guy who disallowed his smart vacuum cleaner to access the internet. After a while it failed, got repaired, failed again, got repaired and after all stopped working.
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We hear a lot about the bad side of AI Code Generation etc. But there are also quite some good sides that should not be ignored.
(more…)For a while now, I’ve been considering running my own RSS aggregator … for a couple of reasons (that don’t matter here). In my shortlist were two popular candidates: Tiny Tiny RSS (ttrss) and FreshRSS. Due to lack of time and other priorites, I had not made a decision, which one to follow ..
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In today’s digital age, we’ve all noticed how rapidly fake news can be generated, especially with the help of generative Generative AI. Just today, I found myself having to do a fact-check for something I posted — and I decided to leverage #GenAI to test it. And I have to admit, I was genuinely surprised at just how easy and efficient it was.
(more…)OK, I admit that I’m sometimes too focused on technology to realise that not everyone is aware of all the different AI services out there. — This week, I mentioned Mistral.ai to a colleague and was surprised that he hadn’t heard of it. But, as I said, you can’t know everything.
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A friend recently recommended Craig McCaskill’s article “The Bubble That Knows It’s a Bubble” with a disclaimer “it’s quite a read”. After forgetting it and coming back to it later I can say: it’s so worth reading it!
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I just came across “Six hard truths for software development bosses” on InfoWorld. Ah well – a quite catchy title. But it’s worth a read for everyone who manages / leads people in the area of Software Development.
(more…)Thanks to the Fediverse integration of Flipboard I just saw the post from National Geographic where they link “Grace for the World: Recreating Michelangelo’s masterpieces above the Vatican“.
At first I thought it was mainly about how impressive the show itself was. But there’s also another topic: the technology and the team behind the scenes:
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Just recently I saw the article (that probably most of us already noticed with a gentle smile), that AI coding tools can slow down seasoned developers by 19% (on InfoWorld). And just now I came to another article on Futurism, that “AI Use Is Now Declining at Large Companies”.
Heise.de picked up the article as well (Ernüchterung statt Euphorie: KI-Nutzung in den USA geht zurück) and outlines that the big hope of additional revenues has not come true (well … as if a technology would print money) and that the negative effects start to be more visible.
Yeah well — I’m wondering where exactly we might be in the Gartner Hype Cycle. I guess somewhere near the “Trough of disillusionment”? I don’t think that there is any doubt that GenAI has some really really beneficial use cases. But to me it did sound a lot like the time when the use of big data was totally overhyped.
