Modern AI systems are built around what are termed 'large language models (LLM)s. A Large Language Model (LLM) is an AI system trained on huge amounts of text. It recognises language patterns and uses them to answer questions, write content, summarise information, and hold conversations. The system is trained on vast amounts of data available
Businesses have been through a series of trials and tribulations over the last decade - including economic shocks and, of course, COVID. It is not surprising that they are now looking for AI to give them a productivity boost and help regain their resilience and confidence for the future. However, those of us who have
For almost all time, humanity’s well-being has been determined by how well it does certain things - catch animals for food, grow crops, build ships, forge weapons, etc. The Industrial Revolution changed the way in which things were done, but it didn’t change that basic formula - the people and the nations that produced more
Many of you will know of the concept of a 'flow state' whereby humans enter a mental state where they feel completely engaged and absorbed in the task in hand. Distractions fade away and you concentrate fully onethe task and applying your skills to it. It is sometimes referred to as being 'in the zone'.
Most business owners and managers are taking a keen interest in AI They have heard the hype and are now excited to learn the reality - to hear of the successful case studies of AI introduction and also the occasional failures (though failures can be under-reported as few want to advertise their failures). But of course,
Is there one? One quality which is more valuable (and therefore more necessary) than others. Well, that is not a simple question. All businesses need a variety and a numb er of qualities to go successful through their start-up phase and then perhaps a different (though overlapping) set of qualities for their 'stablisation' phase, their growth
The UK has a new Primę Minister - allegedly a charismatic, left-leaning one. He is looking to change things - lots of things. He claims to be supportive of business but we will have to wait and see. What I want are policy and actions that will support businesses in increasing their productivity - support for
In most organisations, outputs come not from the work of individuals but from the work of teams. In our new AI-powered and supported world, how do we build teams that include chatbots or robots. To be honest, I don't know - and I suspect that very few others do. Like people involved in ream-building I
We've seen reports that AI systems can 'hallucinate' at times …. they throw up information which they have generated rather than reported, and sometimes the generation is a little strange. Now it may not surprise you to lean that AI can also lie - tell you things that can be proven to be untrue. One
There seems to be two major views about the impact of the increasing use of AI on the productivity of organisations. One school of thought suggests that AI can streamline processes and systems, enhance knowledge and skills and generally have a positive impact on productivity. . The other ays that AI will simply reduce costs