The Understanding Group

Bob Royce's excellent presentation at the Allovance Summit about the use of strategic tools when planning AI implementations. Ethics! Centers of Excellence! Strategy! Check it out!

The Understanding Group AI Strategy using Allovance

More meditation on how LLMs aren't eliminating work, but fundamentally changing it. The smart companies will leverage this approach instead of a reductive replacement theory, because the outputs will just be better, not necessarily faster.

Rethinking the 'IF' Question in Product Development | Joel Smith posted on the topic | LinkedIn one of the ways to sense the shift in product right now — notice how much time you spend on IF you should build something. this one question actually has three components: #1 risk you accept, in relation to #2 how much effort is needed to build, and #3 will people want it in the age of AI-native w...

TUG's Emily Claflin reflecting on her experience as the chair after a successful, fascinating conference. Well done, Emily!

#iac26 | Emily Claflin | 15 comments During a break at last year’s IAC - Information Architecture Conference, Jacob Geib-Rosch walked up to me and said, “I hear you might be one of the chairs for next year’s conference!” I hadn’t heard anything about that, and I didn’t know what a conference chair was, and I had never met J...

The thing that's most interesting about this Linkedin Essay is that the patterns it describes reflect a fundamental truth to the way that organize and share information -- aggregate, bayesian weighted neural nets.

But human creativity comes from similar systems, so another way to think about this is that there may be opportunities to discover or develop creativity in these neural nets similar to humans. I wonder if cognitive psychologists have any thoughts on this.

Is AI the "Mp3" of Human Thought? Here's a metaphor for semantic compression. The public has spent decades getting used to the "flatness" of an MP3. To save space, the algorithm performs perceptual… | Ritsu Katsumata | 27 comments Is AI the "Mp3" of Human Thought? Here's a metaphor for semantic compression. The public has spent decades getting used to the "flatness" of an MP3. To save space, the algorithm performs perceptual coding—it literally throws away the frequencies it thinks our ears won't miss. It shaves off the son...