People buy solutions, not software. Add systems and processes into the mix you have the ingredients that make up the three pillars of our technology industry. So, this month we have an article on each pillar: people, systems, and processes, preceded by a short commentary on the business outlook as this spring there are small buds of optimism emerging. Before that, we must reflect upon, and marvel at, the sheer project management that took place last weekend. No-one can say that the Brits don’t’ do pomp and pageantry well, but the co-ordination and timing was simply superlative.
We can only aspire to such clockwork precision in the management of our IT projects, although managing people rather than machines, one would have thought, was more complex. Not however if you read the latest from the “Godfather of AI” at Google. On quitting he leaves with a warning about the growing development of machines surpassing humans in terms of intelligence and interpretation. And the simple fact that when something is learned by one, it is instantly available to all in the digital world. Terminator’s Skynet seems to be more of a potential reality by the day. AI ‘godfather’ Geoffrey Hinton tells the BBC of AI dangers