Genai

Linus Torvalds at the 2024 Open Source Summit North America 2024 said about GenAI “Let’s wait 10 years and see where it actually goes before we make all these crazy announcements.” Similarly, with tech companies the default approach should be skepticism. Let’s start with smartphones. On a recent trip to Seattle I did a three-hour walk on the waterfront near Pike Place Market. By Daniel Schwen - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.

Remember the last time you saw a commercial for a Tomato, or Rice or Beans by themselves? The reason these commercials don’t exist is that fruits, vegetables and whole grains are a commodity product that don’t need to be sold as part of a McDonald’s Happy Meal. A McDonald’s Happy Meal has something that is technically called food, but in practice is “food like”, and includes a toy to encourage addiction.

A good question for a CTO or CIO is to determine if they can afford to trust SaaS in the era of GenAI. Why? Many SaaS vendors often cheap or free services, but may later changes the TOS (Terms of Service) to sell the data to GenAI companies. Further if eventually deep learning approach turns out to be too expensive this data trove could be leaked as organizations can no longer afford to keep the data.