Ideas on Technology and Artificial Intelligence

Analysis, ideas and perspectives on technology, artificial intelligence, knowledge and their application in business.

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Ideas and articles published on Thinking Notes.

The day we stopped selling software

How we discovered that our clients had never hired us because of the technology we used.

Everyone was looking for us

The curious thing was that hardly anyone knew we existed.

Before Deciding

The first conversation about Artificial Intelligence should not begin by talking about Artificial Intelligence.

When planning was not the problem.

Before introducing an advanced scheduler, it is worth checking whether the system truly knows capacities, times, priorities and production status.

When a Solution Already Solves the Problem.

There will always be new ideas and possible improvements. The real challenge is recognizing the moment when a solution already solves the problem it was created to solve.

When They Asked Us for an AI That Knew Everything

The client thought he was asking for a local chat system. In reality, he was describing an enterprise knowledge infrastructure.

The problem with calling it Artificial Intelligence

Many organizations believe they are looking for Artificial Intelligence when, in reality, they need a better way to capture, organize and use their knowledge.

The Day We Discovered Nobody Wanted to Train an AI

When a company says it wants to train an Artificial Intelligence, it is almost never talking about training. It is trying to describe a need for which there is not yet a shared language.

Knowledge infrastructure is a new department

Artificial Intelligence does not bring knowledge into an organization. It forces the organization to discover who is actually responsible for it.

Never Ask AI Whether It Did It Right.

Trust does not come from whoever provides the answer. It comes from whatever can prove that the answer is correct.

Every Technology Should Do Its Job.

The best systems are not built around a single extraordinary tool, but around assigning the right responsibility to each one.

AI Was Never the Product.

Even Though the Client Only Talked About Artificial Intelligence.

The privilege of deciding

Listening to every good reason does not remove the responsibility of choosing a direction.

There are more of us in the room now

AI can write much of the code, discuss an architecture and change our minds. We still believe the decisions are ours.

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