REAL Talk With Sam Holcman

EA and BA Multiple Choice Exams - the time has come to end this practice

On the heels of a widely published academic study on the AI-enabled cheating occurring on college campuses surrounding exams, college campuses are studying and looking at alternatives – both oral exams and, more importantly, skills-based demonstration, to access academic achievement and competency.  The motivation is quite simple for colleges.  If a degree no longer designates legitimate achievement, it will cease to hold value.  Colleges are at a real risk of becoming diploma mills.  It is time the Enterprise Architecture and Business Architecture certification community recognized this situation before certifications in these fields became what some are already calling "certification mills."  Some certification bodies are already there.

What Data are AI Engines Being Trained On?

The fuel for Artificial Intelligence is data.  Good fuel (data) will provide good energy (answers).  However, bad fuel (bad data), will cause issues both in the long term and short term (bad answers, misleading information, untruths, and many more undesirable outcomes).
There is no known, as of this broadcast date, list of data sources that any of the AI engines are being trained on.  What does that mean to the AI “consumer”?  Maybe we need a different approach to how to train these AI engines.

Artificial Intelligence HAL 9000 and Risk

There is much discussion about the potential use of Artificial Intelligence for purposes that are less noble or in the best interest of most of us. OK, no disagreement. But does anyone really believe that establishing a national government or worldwide agency to regulate AI will be a solution? I do not. Yes, the government may have a role. I would like to suggest that using the AI Engine with great data will serve society, organizations, and individuals, and at a minimum, the support for these concepts should be equal or more than wringing of hands.

Best Practices Artificial Intelligence and the Internet

Let us begin with a summary – the Internet does not have best practices. The Internet has published practices. Let us work through the logic because there are no best practices on the internet. Really nothing shocking – just a bit of realization.

Agile Techniques, Cyber Attacks, and the Four C’s

In this episode of Real Talk, we explore the correlation, causation, coincidence, and/or contribution to the increase in cyber attacks of all kinds and the increase in the use of agile techniques in technology. We begin by stating a scientific hypothesis and then exploring the four C’s.  This is a status report on this research.

Internet Research - The Past, and AI - The Present Part 2

In this two-part broadcast, we will recap the use/misuse of the internet and its information sources for research on topics in various fields. Part two of this two-part broadcast will then look at AI and what is happening in the same arena. This is only one lesson that provides a stark and frightening example of AI “shortcutting” rather than doing actual work. Yes, there are solutions.

Internet Research - The Past, and AI - The Present Part 1

In this two-part broadcast, we will recap the use/misuse of the internet and its information sources for research on topics in various fields.  We go back to our experiences with graduate students in two different universities and the consequences of using unvetted information sources instead of actually doing the work required.  Part two of this two-part broadcast will then look at AI and what is happening in the same arena.

If AI is Ill - We Need To Know What It Ate

You are what you eat. AI engines are what data they consume. If AI needs to be “cured” or wants to be “cured,” it starts by admitting what it has consumed. Yet we hear that the training data for an AI vendor is proprietary. Well, let us examine this.

Business Architecture – The Definition

In this Broadcast, we will define Business Architecture, what it is, its components, audience, and its output – Business Capabilities to achieve the Organization’s Goals, and Objectives.

AI and First-Mover - Advantage or Disadvantage

First-Mover is not automatically a win. Each industry and technology need to be looked at through two dimensions – Market Evolution Speed and Technology Evolution Speed. A simple two-dimensional representation of these two factors in your industry/market can give you a quick gauge of where you are, should be, and what your competitors are doing. What is your approach to AI?