Simplexity Blog
Making Complex Things Simple Without Fearing the ComplexWe try to let our projects speak for us, plus many referrals via reputation. However, our principal, Paul Golding, does post from time to time, more often on Linkedin.
Companies not Using AI Will Lose Sales
Mind Meld with the Customer How would you like to mind-meld with the customer, as if you had perfect knowledge of all information pertinent to the sale? With AI, this might just become a reality. Thanks to large-scale computation, AI has now exceeded beyond-human performance in many economically...
The AI Paradigm: Scaling
The emergence of Large Language Models with their impressive beyond-human performance (in many benchmarks) gives us reason to ask: what is the strategic value of the underlying principles to the enterprise? As an antidote to many AI books with faux-paradigms, I explore the at least one core...
Mindless Data
I my last post, I wrote about being "data driven" operationally, and in the post before that I wrote about the mindsets that surround using machine learning models. Let me try to marry the two ideas. There is a widely shared mindset that models are somehow free of bias. And I don't mean...
ChatGPT is the Tip of the Iceberg
ChatGPT is just the tip of the iceberg that enterprises find themselves crashing into even though the underlying mass – Large Language Models (LLMs) – was introduced back in 2017. In AI years, that’s a lifetime ago. LLMs ought to have already featured in digital transformation programs, but many...
The Killer Use Case for Generative AI is Empowering Enterprise Citizens
Digital Democratization: Tech Osmosis Following on from a recent post about digital democratization, let's explore where Generative AI fits into the picture in order to arrive at a more interesting use case for Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT-3, ChatGPT and Github Co-pilot. Citizen...
The Role of Data Scaling in AI Strategy
Introduction What passes for AI strategy these days has a very low bar that tells us little to nothing about the unique potential of AI. We see this often from folks pivoting to become "AI experts" with little insights into the unique capabilities of AI. My first AI design (patented '96) was used...
ChatGPT — An Unblocking Tool
Summary TL;DR: ChatGPT killer use case is mental unblocking. I participated in a number of discussions with "knowledge workers" about their experiences using ChatGPT in the workplace via the OpenAI UI. Many non-technical users are finding it sufficiently useful as a writing aid that they imagine...
Transformers (Code-level Commentary)
I seldom, if ever, write technical posts. There are just too many excellent resources out there and my goal isn't to explain technical things to a technical audience, as much as I enjoy teaching from time to time, or giving the odd guest lecture. But I made an exception whilst perusing the...
Don’t Ignore AI in a Downturn
I recently wrote a guest blogpost ("Five Misconceptions about AI That Are Slowing Down Your Business") on the wonderful Stephen Shapiro's Innovation Insights website. It was motivated by two experiences. The first was an indirect encounter with a CEO who declared that AI is a kind of luxury, as if...
The Manifold and Mantra Hypotheses: Why AI works and Why it Doesn’t.
Business leaders: pay attention. AI works because of a fact of nature that is sometimes expressed by the Manifold Hypothesis -- that complex things can be explained via simpler mechanisms (that an AI might find from samples of the complex thing). However, AI often fails because of what I call the...