WARNING: Politics and economics! Let’s dig into the H1B thing. If you missed the news, the US government has announced that it is increasing the fee for the H1B visa from around US 2500 to US 100000, a 39x increase in cost. According to Reuters, US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said “All the major companies…
“Every lie incurs a debt to the truth. Sooner or later, that debt is paid.” – Valery Legasov Warning: politics ahead! Changing data does not change reality. For analytics professionals, analytics is all about explaining what happened. That’s literally the purpose of analytics, so we can understand what happened and then make decisions about how…
I don’t do much talk publicly about politics because for the most part, it’s not helpful. Not online, anyway – over a cup of coffee, maybe. But I’ll explain how I think about politics. Electing public officials isn’t a marriage. I’m not looking for the perfect person. Electing public officials is basically hiring a contract…
Whether you want them to or not, whether it’s even right or not, people are asking large language models questions about your business. And you have no visibility into this. “Hey ChatGPT, compare pricing Salesforce, HubSpot, and Zoho CRM for a company of 50 employees and annual revenue of about $50 million per year. Assume…
Let’s talk a bit more about AI data privacy for a minute. Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer. I cannot give legal advice. Seek a qualified lawyer in your jurisdiction for legal advice specific to your situation. Someone asked me recently when I was advocating for local AI models if I was concerned about a…
Warning! Politics ahead! One of the things you should be using AI for all the time is politics. Not the third-rate drama you see on TV screens, but the substance of politics – legislative pieces, executive orders, and court judgements. Those are the documents that will impact your life in some fashion. What should you…
Machines don’t focus. Not like we do. We see this especially in multimodal and vision AI, where we prompt it carefully and… it ignores our instructions. From generating imagery to recognizing what’s in an image, the more we ask models to focus, the harder it is on both human and machine. Why? The very nature…
