Enterprise and Solutions Architecture: Dichotomy or Continuum?
Based on job descriptions posted on recruiting websites, it is…
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The Department of “Engineering The Hell Out Of AI”
ChatGPT has acquired the functionality of recognising an arithmetic question and reacting to it with on-the-fly creating python code, executing it, and using it to generate the response. Gemini’s contains an interesting trick Google plays to improve be…
Memorisation: the deep problem of Midjourney, ChatGPT, and friends
If we ask GPT to get us “that poem that compares the loved one to a summer’s day” we want it to produce the actual Shakespeare Sonnet 18, not some confabulation. And it does. It has memorised this part of the training data. This is both sought-after an…
From The Founder: Gartner Events And EA (Part 2)
Selected Highlights from Gartner’s SuccessfulConference on Tech Growth and Innovation…
Natural Language Processing for Standards Development
By Chris Harding, Principal, Lacibus, LTD, and Member of The Open Group
Natural Language Processing (NLP) is emerging as a powerful technology with many applications. Here are some thoughts on its application to standards development, with a call to participate in The Open Group work that uses it.
Where am I? How we got here?
I received two important books for Christmas this year. Jeanette Winterson, 12 Bytes – How we got here, where we might go next (Jonathan Cape, 2021)Bruno Latour, After lockdown – A metamorphosis (trans Julie Rose, Polity Press, 2021)Here are my first i…
Where am I? How we got here?
I received two important books for Christmas this year. Jeanette Winterson, 12 Bytes – How we got here, where we might go next (Jonathan Cape, 2021)Bruno Latour, After lockdown – A metamorphosis (trans Julie Rose, Polity Press, 2021)Here are my first i…
The Open Group Open Footprint™ Forum Global Event Highlights Blog
Last week, The Open Group Open Footprint™ Forum (OFP) held its first virtual event, June 23-24, 2021. It brought together experts from across the globe to introduce and demonstrate the work that has gone into the Forum since it launched in August 2020. Speakers, from a plethora of industry leading organizations such as Accenture, AWS, Deloitte, ERM, IBM, Infosys, Shell, WBCSD, and Wipro hosted sessions outlining the mission of the Open Footprint Forum, explanations of the Open Footprint Data Platform, as well as live demonstrations of the Platform to show its applicability to all industries.
On the invisibility of infrastructure
Infrastructure is boring, expensive, and usually someone else’s responsibility/problem. Which is perhaps how the UK finds itself at what Jeremy Fleming, head of GCHQ, describes as a moment of reckoning. Simon Wardley analyses this in terms of digital…
On the invisibility of infrastructure
Infrastructure is boring, expensive, and usually someone else’s
responsibility/problem. Which is perhaps how the UK finds itself at what
Jeremy Fleming, head of GCHQ, describes as a moment of reckoning. Simon Wardley analyses this in terms of digital…
Critical Hype and the Red Queen Effect
Thanks to @jjn1 I’ve just read a great piece by @STS_News (Lee Vinsel), called You’re Doing It Wrong: Notes on Criticism and Technology Hype, which develops some points I’ve made on this blog and elsewhere.A general willingness to take technology hype …
Critical Hype and the Red Queen Effect
Thanks to @jjn1 I’ve just read a great piece by @STS_News (Lee Vinsel), called You’re Doing It Wrong: Notes on Criticism and Technology Hype, which develops some points I’ve made on this blog and elsewhere.A general willingness to take technology hype …