One of Xebia’s values is knowledge sharing.
We are often asked if we walk the talk.
So, from Xebia Data, we started doing quarterly reviews of what we do.
The results for Q1 are in: meetups, conference talks, blog posts, and… a book!
Read the full article:
😂 Gen AI is many things, but boring is not one of them
Due to popular demand, we’re organizing a new Xebia Data Academy learning week next week!
It won’t be robots that destroy humanity; instead, AI will make us poison ourselves by hijacking our best recipes!
These jokes practically write themselves.
Thanks Google!
Have you ever thought of adding some non-toxic glue to your pizza? 🍕
No? Well, Google AI Overview has got your back!
Do they have no honor left?
Samsung asks small shops to
How’s that Gen AI ROI looking now?
Tech companies are pushing Gen AI everywhere.
The latest case is Windows Recall (https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/retrace-your-steps-with-recall-aa03f8a0-a78b-4b3e-b0a1-2eb8ac48701c) a feature that is the worst nightmare of people suffering domestic abuse. It’s baffling that the industry is failing even to pretend to care for a good portion of the population—mostly women—that will be negatively impacted by their products.
Why is it happening?
In short: the insane amount of investment in Gen AI is causing it.
Why? Investment demands return, and given the amounts needed for the current generation of Gen AI models, the returns will have to be extra juicy. Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft alone might spend around $200bn this year, mostly on data centers and electricity.
But where are the Gen AI applications offering a 10x return on this investment?
Where is the $2 trillion Gen AI market?
Such a market is nowhere to be seen: all companies I speak with are hardly going beyond proof of concept, let alone creating a steady revenue stream.
So, instead, we’re all getting Windows Recall and Slack snooping on your company data without your explicit consent.
Is Europe cyber infrastructure ready for a war(-like) situation?
The short answer is no.
Bert Hubert lays is out skillfully in a talk — now transcribed, see link — and the reason we’re not prepared boils down to:
Ironically, the best prepared nation west of Moscow and East of New York is Ukraine, battle-hardened by years of cybersecurity conflicts with Russia.
You need 5’ to read this, but if you work in tech — or politics — you must read it.
https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/cyber-security-pre-war-reality-check/
Slack had the time to set up all the controls to train AI model on your data, but they couldn’t bother to create a checkbox to opt out.
Instead, the admin needs to send them an email, with a particular subject line, to opt out!
Another responsible AI failure, and the irony when you read trust on the URL!
https://slack.com/intl/en-gb/trust/data-management/privacy-principles
