من بين حضارة الأنباط، وعمارتها المدهشة،
حدثت واحدة من أعظم التحولات الثقافية في تاريخ العرب، وهي ولادة "الخط العربي".. كان الأنباط جسراً حضارياً ربط الخط العربي بالجذور الآرامية البعيدة.
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Last quarter I rolled out Microsoft Copilot to 4,000 employees.
$30 per seat per month.
$1.4 million annually.
I called it "digital transformation."
The board loved that phrase.
They approved it in eleven minutes.
No one asked what it would actually do.
Including me.
I told everyone it would "10x productivity."
That's not a real number.
But it sounds like one.
HR asked how we'd measure the 10x.
I said we'd "leverage analytics dashboards."
They stopped asking.
Three months later I checked the usage reports.
47 people had opened it.
12 had used it more than once.
One of them was me.
I used it to summarize an email I could have read in 30 seconds.
It took 45 seconds.
Plus the time it took to fix the hallucinations.
But I called it a "pilot success."
Success means the pilot didn't visibly fail.
The CFO asked about ROI.
I showed him a graph.
The graph went up and to the right.
It measured "AI enablement."
I made that metric up.
He nodded approvingly.
We're "AI-enabled" now.
I don't know what that means.
But it's in our investor deck.
A senior developer asked why we didn't use Claude or ChatGPT.
I said we needed "enterprise-grade security."
He asked what that meant.
I said "compliance."
He asked which compliance.
I said "all of them."
He looked skeptical.
I scheduled him for a "career development conversation."
He stopped asking questions.
Microsoft sent a case study team.
They wanted to feature us as a success story.
I told them we "saved 40,000 hours."
I calculated that number by multiplying employees by a number I made up.
They didn't verify it.
They never do.
Now we're on Microsoft's website.
"Global enterprise achieves 40,000 hours of productivity gains with Copilot."
The CEO shared it on LinkedIn.
He got 3,000 likes.
He's never used Copilot.
None of the executives have.
We have an exemption.
"Strategic focus requires minimal digital distraction."
I wrote that policy.
The licenses renew next month.
I'm requesting an expansion.
5,000 more seats.
We haven't used the first 4,000.
But this time we'll "drive adoption."
Adoption means mandatory training.
Training means a 45-minute webinar no one watches.
But completion will be tracked.
Completion is a metric.
Metrics go in dashboards.
Dashboards go in board presentations.
Board presentations get me promoted.
I'll be SVP by Q3.
I still don't know what Copilot does.
But I know what it's for.
It's for showing we're "investing in AI."
Investment means spending.
Spending means commitment.
Commitment means we're serious about the future.
The future is whatever I say it is.
As long as the graph goes up and to the right.
في ظل التحولات الكبرى والنمو المتسارع لمدينتنا الرياض، والتطور النوعي في مستوى الخدمات وتجربة السكان، لم يعد ممكنًا أن نستمر في تشغيل المدينة وخدمة سكانها بالأساليب التقليدية السابقة،
ومن هذا المنطلق، يسعدنا أن نطلق اليوم برنامج #تحول_الرياض_البلدي كخطوة استراتيجية لإعادة تصميم منظومة الخدمات البلدية، بما يجعلها أكثر كفاءة وفعالية.
البرنامج يقدّم نموذجًا جديدًا في تشغيل المدينة وإدارتها، يقوم على اللامركزية والقرب من الاحتياجات المحلية لكل منطقة جغرافية، ويشمل هذا التحول إعادة ترتيب منظومة متكاملة تتكون من وكالات مركزية ببعد إشرافي واستراتيجي، وخمسة قطاعات خدمية مُمكَّنة ميدانيًا وقريبة من احتياجات السكان، إلى جانب مكاتب “مدينتي” المنتشرة في أنحاء العاصمة لاستقبال المستفيدين وتوفير الخدمات البلدية بطريقة أكثر سهولة وسلاسة
السعودية 🇸🇦 مقبلة على لحظة الذكاء الاصطناعي الوكيلي (Agentic AI moment) واللي رح تبرز للعالم نموذج فريد تماما. هذه التقنية قادرة على التوسع كما توسعت تقنية المدفوعات التي اصبحت الان متاحة طول الوقت وفي كل مكان حتى اصغر البقالات وبموثوقية شبه كاملة.
لكن بناء على واقع البنية التحتية الرقمية والفجوة بينها وبين المطلوب اعتقد ان الطريق امام الذكاء الاصطناعي الوكيلي لن يكون سهلاً.
أدناه مجموعة من الافكار حول الفجوات التقنيات والفرص اللي أشوفها:
✅ فجوة الحوكمة كبيرة جدا. ولا نملك حتى الآن نموذجًا واضحًا لكيفية التعامل معها. لكن أقرب تجربة محلية ناجحة كانت في توسع خدمات المدفوعات تحت مظلة تنظيمات مؤسسة النقد (ساما).
✅ استقلالية الوكلاء كابوس لأي جهة تنظيمية. الحواجز المبنية على التعليمات (prompt guardrails) هشة وغير قابلة للتوسّع. ما نحتاجه فعليًا هو جدار ناري firewall قائم على السياسات (policy-as-code). شيء قريب من Open Policy Agent (OPA) ولكن للوكلاء: حاجب قرارات يحدد ما الأدوات التي يمكن استدعاؤها، وما البيانات التي يمكن الوصول إليها، وما الروابط المسموح بها، وما يجب حجبه أو حتى منعه.
✅ هوية الوكيل (Agent Identity) أمر غير قابل للنقاش. كل وكيل يجب أن يملك بيانات الاعتماد (شخص، جهة، شركة، وزارة، إلخ). بحد ادنى يُفترض أن يحصل الوكلاء غير القابلين للتحقق على أقل الصلاحيات.
✅ سجل وطني للأدوات (National Tool Registry / MCP وطني). برأيي، هذه هي الفكرة الأسهل والأقل تعقيدًا تقنيًا لكنها قد تُعيد تشكيل تجربة الخدمات الحكومية بالكامل. كل خدمة حكومية تُعرّف كأداة قابلة للاستخدام داخل واجهة محادثة (مثل ChatGPT)، لا تكتفي بالإجابة، بل تنفّذ المهام بالكامل (تجديد رخصة، رفع مستندات مالية، تعبئة نماذج…). باختصار: شيء مثل Cursor لكن للخدمات الحكومية.
مجرد خواطر أولية من أول أسبوع لي هنا. المزيد في الطريق إن شاء الله
وشرايكم؟
🚨 HOLY SMOKES: Trump takes a blow torch to the neocons and interventionists while speaking to the Saudis. This is a VICTORY speech over globalism.
"It's crucial for the wider world to know this great transformation has not come from Western interventionists, or flying people in beautiful planes giving you lectures on how to live and how to govern your own affairs."
"In the end, the so-called nation builders wrecked far more nations than they built and the interventionalists were intervening in complex societies that they did not even understand themselves."
"No, the gleaming marvels of Riyadh and Abu Dhabi were not created by the so-called 'nation builders,' neocons, or liberal non-profits like those who spent trillions and trillions of dollars failing to develop Baghdad, so many other cities."
"Instead, the birth of a modern Middle East has been brought by the people of the region themselves, the people that are right here, the people that have lived here all their lives, developing your own sovereign countries, pursuing your own unique visions and charting your own destinies in your own way."
"They told you how to do it, but they had no idea how to do it themselves. Peace, prosperity, and progress ultimately came not from a radical rejection of your heritage, but rather from embracing your national traditions and embracing that same heritage that you love so dearly."
"You achieved a modern miracle the Arabian way."
No wonder they respect him so much.
#سدايا تعلن عن إدراج نموذج “علّام” ALLaM 7B على منصة Hugging Face؛ مما يجعله متاحًا للمطورين والباحثين عالمياً كأحد أفضل النماذج باللغة العربية والمطور وطنيًا.
I think the Deepseek moment is not really the Sputnik moment, but more like the Google moment.
If anyone was around in ~2004, you'll know what I mean, but more on that later.
I think everyone is over-rotated on this because Deepseek came out of China. Let me try to un-rotate you.
Deepseek could have come out of some lab in the US Midwest. Like say some CS lab couldn't afford the latest nVidia chips and had to use older hardware, but they had a great algo and systems department, and they found a bunch of optimizations and trained a model for a few million dollars and lo, the model is roughly on par with o1. Look everyone, we found a new training method and we optimized a bunch of algorithms!
Everyone is like OH WOW and starts trying the same thing. Great week for AI advancement! No need for US markets to lose a trillion in market cap.
The tech world (and apparently Wall Street) is massively over-rotated on this because it came out of CHINA.
I get it. After everyone has been sensitized over the H1BLM uproar, we are conditioned to think of OMG Immigrants China as some kind of Alien Other. As though the Alien-Other Chinese Researchers are doing something special that's out of reach and now China The Empire is somehow uniquely in possession of Super Efficient AI Power and the US companies can't compete. The subtext of "A New Fearsome Power Now Under The Command of the CCP" is what's driving the current sentiment, and it's not really valid.
Like, no. These are guys basically working on the same problems we are in the US, and not only that, they wrote a paper about it and open-sourced their model! It is not actually some sort of tectonic geopolitical shift, it is just Some Nerds Over There saying "Hey we figured out some cool shit, here's how we did it, maybe you would like to check it out?"
Sputnik showed that the Soviets could do something the US couldn't ("a new fearsome power"). They didn't subsequently publish all the technical details and half the blueprints. They only showed that it could be done.
With Deepseek, if I recall correctly, a lab in Berkeley read their paper and duplicated the claimed results on a small scale within a day.
That's why I say it's like the Google moment in 2004. Google filed its S-1 in 2004, and revealed to the world that they had built the largest supercomputer cluster by using distributed algorithms to network together commodity computers at the best performance-per-dollar point on the cost curve.
This was in contrast to every other tech company, who at that time just bought what were essentially larger and larger mainframes, always at the most expensive leading edge of the cost curve. (To the young people reading this, this will sound incredible to you)
I worked at PayPal at the time, and in order to keep pace with the rising transaction volume, the company was forced to buy bigger and bigger database servers from Oracle. We were totally Oracle's bitch. At one point when we ran into scalability issues, the Oracle reps told us we were their biggest installation so they had no other reference point on how to help us overcome our scalability issues. We literally resorted to flipping random config switches and rebooting it.
(This heavily influenced me when I was a young manager later at Facebook. I deliberately torpedoed an Oracle salesman's pitch to try and get us to switch from open source MySQL databases to an Oracle contract: of course we had scalability problems, but at least when we had them, we could open up the hood and figure out how to fix it ... assuming we had good enough engineers, and we did. When it's closed-source infra, you're at the mercy of the vendor's support engineers)
Back to Google - in their S-1, they described how they were able to leapfrog the scalability limits of mainframes and had been (for years!) running a far more massive networked supercomputer comprised of thousands of commodity machines at the optimal performance-per-dollar price point - i.e. not the more expensive leading edge - all knit together by fault-tolerant distributed algorithms written in-house.
Some time later, Google published their MapReduce and BigTable papers, describing the algorithms they'd used to manage and control this massively more cost-effective and powerful supercomputer.
Deepseek is MUCH more like the Google moment, because Google essentially described what it did and told everyone else how they could do it too. In Google's case, a fair bit of time elapsed between when they revealed to the world what they were doing and when they published a papers showing everyone how to do it. Deepseek, in contrast, published their paper alongside the model release.
Now, I've also written about how I think this is also a demonstration of Deepseek's trajectory, but that's also no different from Google in ~2004 revealing what it was capable of. Competitors will still need to gear up and DO the thing, but they've moved the field forward. But it's not like Sputnik where the Soviets have developed technology unreachable to the US, it's more like Google saying, "Hey, we did this cool thing, here's how we did it."
There is no reason to think nVidia and OAI and Meta and Microsoft and Google et al are dead. Sure, Deepseek is a new and formidable upstart, but doesn't that happen every week in the world of AI? I am sure that Sam and Zuck, backed by the power of Satya, can figure something out. Everyone is going to duplicate this feat in a few months and everything just got cheaper. The only real consequence is that AI utopia/doom is now closer than ever.
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Bonus: This is also a little similar the Ethereum PoS moment, when AI finally has a counterpoint to the environmentalists who say AI uses so much electricity. We just brought down the cost of inference by 97%!
ستظهر واحات الرياض قريباً بحلتها الجديدة، حيث تتميز كل واحة بفكرة مبتكرة وتصميم مميز، لتكون القلب النابض اجتماعياً وثقافياً وتعليمياً للأحياء المختلفة..
والبداية مع واحة التحلية، التي ستستقبل زوارها قريباً في رحلة معرفية عن الغذاء والإنسان، وسيتبعها افتتاح بقية الواحات تباعاً..
مع استضافة كأس العالم، المملكة اليوم في قلب العالم، بقيادة ملهمة ووطن عظيم 🇸🇦
ألف ألف مبروك للجميع، وإن شاء الله ستكون نسخة مبهرة واستثنائية
#اهلاً_بالعالم#السعودية34
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كل محطة وعربة ومسار في #قطار_الرياض هي معالم لمدينة تسابق الزمن بطموح يعانق السماء، وشاهد على تنمية أسسها مولاي خادم الحرمين الشريفين ويعمل على تحقيقها بعزم سيدي ولي العهد حفظهما الله 🇸🇦
سلمان بن عبدالعزيز - 1973:
"واثق تمامًا من مستقبل الرياض، وضعت كل الأساسات التي تجعلها في المستقبل مدينة نموذجية"
سلمان بن عبدالعزيز - 2024:
"افتتاح #قطار_الرياض ، أحد أكبر مشاريع النقل والبنية التحتية عالميًا."
مشروع تاريخي في مدينة عظيمة 🇸🇦
مبارك للرياض وسكانها إطلاق سمو سيدي لمؤسسة الرياض غير الربحية، والذي يأتي استمرارًا لرعاية سموه الكريمة والمستمرة لنهضة الرياض وتنميتها، حيث ستضيف هذه المؤسسة بعون الله زخمًا للعمل الاجتماعي والخيري وتفعل مساهمته في توجهات المدينة وتطورها..
أفضل العلاقات هي تلك التي تتطلب أقل جهد ممكن من الطرفين لإدارتها، وهذا ينطبق على علاقات العمل والصداقة والحياة الخاصة.
يقول نيتشه "من يقاتل الوحوش عليه أن يحذر كي لا يتحوّل إلى واحد منهم"، ويرى ماركوس أوريليوس أنّ "أفضل انتقام من عدوك هو أن لا تصبح مثله".
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في إنجازٍ وطني جديد 🇸🇦
المملكة تستمر في تحقيق الريادة الدولية بقطاع الأمن السيبراني وتُصنّف في الفئة الأعلى وفق «المؤشر العالمي للأمن السيبراني 2024» محققةً نسبة 100٪ في جميع المعايير.
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أرفع أسمى آيات التهاني والتبريكات لمقام مولاي خادم الحرمين الشريفين الملك سلمان بن عبدالعزيز وسمو سيدي ولي عهده الأمير محمد بن سلمان -حفظهما الله- ولسكان الرياض ولجميع المسلمين بحلول #عيد_الفطر_المبارك أعاده الله علينا جميعًا ونحن نرفل في أمن وتنمية ورخاء في هذا الوطن المعطاء 🇸🇦
شركته الآن رابع أكبر شركة في العالم من حيث القيمة السوقية
مؤسس $NDVA ينصح خريجي الجامعة قائلاً أن النجاح يكون حليف الشخصية، وليس الذكاء
والشخصية يتم تكوينها وصقلها من خلال التجارب والمشاكل التي تولد قابلية للمواجهة والتكييف
فيديو يستحق التدريس