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About that AI you just bought... AI

About that AI you just bought...

Ever had buyer's remorse? Maybe that mandolin you bought hungover at university you were convinced was a good idea until you sobered up? No? Just me then. Well that's what's happening right now with the millions of dollars sank into AI over the last year. Yes - there are some use cases

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When sausage rolls go offline: The hidden cost of outages AI

When sausage rolls go offline: The hidden cost of outages

Last week, I was with AI-outage-prediction company Hortium at the Retail Technology show at Olympia. Why was that? WhatApp, Instagram and a string of retailers including McDonalds and ultimate champion dealer of the sausage roll, Greggs, have all suffered outages over the last year that

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Empty airports and naming the enemy Growth

Empty airports and naming the enemy

The upside of this recession? Hi from sunny (ish) Dublin Recessions: The Executive Summary: * The sooner you’re in a recession, the sooner you’re out * Buyer rationale is easier to predict as there’s more certainty * A lot of bad stuff has already happened * AI – the Average Intern – won’t

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Beating the big firms: Part 2 AI

Beating the big firms: Part 2

The holes in AI messaging Hi guys Sorry it’s late this week. Half term and kids running around. (Quite nice really, but they’ve been banned from their computers today for being naughty.) Now with all the noise about AI, this week I have a test for you. I’m not seeing a credible benchmark,

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Accenture: Execs say edge computing key to growth AI

Accenture: Execs say edge computing key to growth

Foundational to useful AI strategies Edge computing is the use of any type of computer program that delivers low latency nearer to the requests Accenture researched sentiment towards edge adoption across 2,100 C-level executives in 18 industries across 16 countries. Findings: * Edge is set

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