When I first wrote about justifying AI investments in my book, I focused on how businesses could calculate Return on Investment (ROI) and Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) to make a strong business case for AI adoption. The foundation of…
Parlor tricks, Smoke and Mirrors, Inaccurate, Hallucinating, Too Expensive… Useless!?!? Yes, these are comments I’ve heard from IT leaders when talking about various Copilot capabilities and offerings. Meanwhile, I can’t recall a single knowledge worker who has access to the…
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become a cornerstone of modern technology, influencing industries and societies in ways we could only dream of a few decades ago. From personalized recommendations on streaming platforms to intelligent chatbots enhancing customer support, AI’s capabilities have…
That’s right, unless you live under a rock, you can’t escape this rhetoric, but is it true? The media certainly would like to make you think so, wouldn’t they? I’m a bit less emphatic about the inevitable doomsday when the…
The explosion of interest in AI due to the recent success of ChatGPT, the state-of-the-art natural language generation model that can write anything from essays to poems to code, is no surprise. However, now we are starting to see the…
In this vlog I discuss some misconceptions around ChatGPT and Azure OpenAI, to include: Who owns ChatGPT, OpenAI, and how Microsoft got involved Security and privacy concerns about Azure OpenAI and ChatGPT How each of the services is consumed and…
The new age of large language models (LLMs), and the ability to accelerate various forms of novel thought is being cast upon us at a rapid pace. Just like an airplane copilot, we are seeing an explosion of tools in…
AI solutions are exploding, and Azure has the most complete offering of any cloud provider! Watch this video to get started with our API based Cognitive Services in Azure and a sample architecture of how to employ them with the…
Hybrid Transactional and Analytical Processing, or HTAP, is an advanced database capability that allows for both types of workloads to be performed without one impacting the performance of the other. In this Video Blog, I cover some of the history…
Azure Synapse Link allows you to connect to your transactional system directly to run analytical and machine learning workloads while eliminating the need for ETL/ELT, batch processing and reload wait times. In this vLog, I explain how to turn the…