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Briefings and executive education on AI for CEOs, boards and senior leaders: strategy, agents, governance and how to adopt it.

Scary: If you read one thing today, make it this... AI

Scary: If you read one thing today, make it this...

ChatGPT: "AI is unlikely to "seize" control in a dramatic coup—it will gradually take over because it’s better, faster, and more reliable than humans in many domains. AI will effectively control large parts of human life through necessity, dependency, and influence."

Dan Ilett · 57 min read min read
AI failure, cabaret and my back passage AI

AI failure, cabaret and my back passage

Welcome to the end of the week. At last... Here's why tech is great. 💡I really want you to look at our AI Frontiers events at the bottom of this email. The first is on AI disruption in media, entertainment and games later this month. The second is on DeFi (decentralised finance) 5 reasons

Dan Ilett · 4 min read min read
AI Frontiers: Transforming Media & Entertainment AI

AI Frontiers: Transforming Media & Entertainment

Wednesday, 23 October Join us at AI Frontiers: Transforming Media & Entertainment to explore how artificial intelligence is reshaping the way we consume and create media Date and time Wed, 23 Oct 2024 17:00 - 19:00 BST Location The Club House, 6th floor, 5 Swallow Pl 5 Swallow Place,

Dan Ilett · 2 min read min read
SaaS slashers, AI art tiles and gilet male fails... AI

SaaS slashers, AI art tiles and gilet male fails...

Klarna is shaking the tree in its recent announcement it will kill Salesforce and Workday SaaS applications to replace them with AI-created software. CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski stated: "There are large ongoing internal initiatives that are a combination of AI, standardization, and

Dan Ilett · 3 min read min read
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

Dan Ilett · 1 min read min read
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

Dan Ilett · 1 min read min read
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,

Dan Ilett · 3 min read min read
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

Dan Ilett · 1 min read min read