Michael Conway

#AI Consulting Leader at #IBM. #THFC fan and season ticket holder. All views my own

[Michael Conway @Michaelconway87]

@RikiRealEstate Stintino - thank you!

[Michael Conway @Michaelconway87]

@rorysutherland @daveg You could sell tickets - I’d be there!

[Michael Conway @Michaelconway87]

@daveg @rorysutherland Ha! As a practitioner running these types of teams, I genuinely think this answer is you need a broad church. Too much of any bias leads to sub-optimal outcomes. The variety is where the magic is.

Long time listener, first time caller - thanks for the chat 😊

[Michael Conway @Michaelconway87]

@daveg @rorysutherland I raise you a philosophy degree in particular (I’m deep conflicted by holding one ☺️). Typically seen as a liberal arts degree, but Analytic philosophy (taught in all good Anglo-American unis as the defacto) is the most fiercely logical and reason based degree there is

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@emollick @kevinrose Jean Claude Van Damned

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@tomfgoodwin Chatbots are twofold. Understand and Fulfil. LLMs solve understand but nothing has yet properly cracked the fulfil as it’s an integration problem and not an AI one.

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@SpursOfficial 💙💙💙💙

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@NottsPhilosophy #solipsism

[Michael Conway @Michaelconway87]

@tomfgoodwin @emollick has a wonderful term for that exact phenomenon, he calls it the “jagged frontier”

[Michael Conway @Michaelconway87]

@ItchyGin @nicolelampert It reads “chai” in Hebrew and literally means “life”. Very strong symbolism in Judaism of this word, as well as the number 18 it also symbolises which is a really lucky number as well.

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@BristOliver Schrödinger's CatGPT

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@emollick If only there was a readily available tool for summarising long docs 🤔

[Michael Conway @Michaelconway87]

@emollick so we’ve focussed on quality & performant models which have transparency of where the data came from and OS’d via Apache 2. Then we have a bunch of value add services like watsonx to tune, train & govern your models, as well as consulting services to ensure you get biz value 2/2

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@emollick Very much have a horse in the race here (I work there) but IBM has taken the Red Hat approach (as I guess you’d expect). It was proven pretty early on that there wouldn’t be a moat in the models (1/2)

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@francesweetman She’ll go into the holding pen with Esther Rantzen

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@tomfgoodwin @emollick Or intelligence

[Michael Conway @Michaelconway87]

@tomfgoodwin An agent who does all the work for me, knowing my requirements and dealing with all paperwork both at work and at home is pretty transformative to my mind. Can imagine a world where websites disappear as Agents are booking in a backend api. Don’t think that’s a patch.

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@tomfgoodwin Talking in hypothetical capability, rather than current viability obviously…

[Michael Conway @Michaelconway87]

@tomfgoodwin A “Book me a holiday” agent would search for best price/quality blend of options that it’s learnt from you and present you them. Give you a couple of top options and you tell it which one you’d like to book and does. Then will carry out all your HR stuff timeaway stuff at work