Jan Bosch
Both the proponents and questioning antagonists around artificial intelligence are expounding on the outrageous capabilities of modern AI solutions such as LLMs, foundation models and agentic AI. And yet, when interviewing key business leaders and observing the companies I work with, I must say that the adoption of AI is slow going and far from … Read more
With new breakthrough models being announced all the time and hundreds of billions invested, the hype around artificial intelligence seems to keep going much longer than any other major technology I’ve experienced in my lifetime. The promise (and to some extent the threat) of AI is that it will provide new levels of automation and … Read more
One of the most interesting learnings from recent years is that it turns out that what we call “white-collar jobs” proved to be much easier to automate with AI than so-called “blue-collar jobs.” White-collar jobs require that thing that we think makes us so special as humans, intelligence, and most of the tasks involved are … Read more
In his book “Outlive”, Peter Atia outlines the history of medicine. According to him, we’re currently in medicine 2.0, which is concerned with addressing many of the diseases that put children and adults in an early grave. Typically, these are infectious diseases such as polio and smallpox and more recently HIV, AIDS and Hepatitis C. … Read more
After two AI winters, artificial intelligence is now as hot as any topic can become. Over the last decade, entire research groups have been bought up by the large tech companies and the investment in all things AI has been phenomenal. The alignment of three major forces, ie the availability of data thanks to the … Read more
Every few weeks, it seems, we are treated to another major breakthrough innovation in artificial intelligence. Whether it is Deep Mind’s system beating the world champion Go player, GPT-3 dazzling us with Turing test breaking abilities or DALLE-2 generating images that are simply stunning, it seems like we are on the cusp of general artificial … Read more
Digitalization is concerned with the three key enabling digital technologies software, data and artificial intelligence. These build on each other as it typically is software that generates the data from systems in the field and it’s this data (preferably labeled) that forms the basis for machine learning and deep learning. The software-intensive systems industry, as … Read more
Do you work above or below the API? Recently, I was introduced to the concept by a newsletter of Mark Manson where he talked about people being left behind because they get stuck in a rut and fail to reinvent themselves. The idea is that when you work below the API, you’re basically working for … Read more
It seems that much of my work these days is concerned with bringing AI to the embedded-systems domain, understanding what the implications are and how companies should deal with it. In the discussions with technical experts and business leaders, however, I constantly run into several misconceptions. First, there are still several people out there who … Read more
This week, I attended the International Conference on Software Business (ICSOB 2020) and gave a presentation on autonomously improving systems. The core idea is that software-intensive systems can measure their performance, know what to optimize for and can autonomously experiment with their own behavior. The history of software-intensive systems can be divided into three main … Read more
