While interest in Siggraph as an event has declined over the years, the advent of generative AI and the near-term potential arrival of AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) should cause a significant resurgence. This is because AI dramatically changes how people […]
This month, IBM had an interesting briefing on how AI could be used to improve the customer support experience, drive deeper engagement with customers, and effectively improve customer loyalty while dramatically reducing support costs. This sounds unusually good given how
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While PC demand is increasing this quarter, the problem with this segment is a general lack of product marketing. Early in the creation of the PC market, the component and software vendors (mostly Microsoft) came up with the concept of
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One of the issues with every OEM being pushed rapidly into a new hardware platform is that it tends to result in a lot of products that aren’t well differentiated from each other. While the feature set for these PCs
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That was my first thought when AMD briefed me about the Ultra Accelerator Link Consortium (UALink), a joint effort between AMD, Broadcom, Cisco, Google, HPE, Intel, Meta, and Microsoft to create a set of standards to allow the interoperation of
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One of the troubling uses of a new technology like AI is the feeding frenzy of trying to apply it to every problem without any significant effort to inform the order in which AI is implemented by company need. This
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Everyone is currently learning how to train and deploy AI. Companies like NVIDIA provide the core technology as well as some direction given its multi-decade-long path to achieving AI dominance. But its strongest competency is in collaborating with companies like
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Every industry has the same problem: figuring out what customers will want in a three-, five-, or 10-year timeframe. The reason we need to know what customers will want is that it takes from three to 10 years to create
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The launch of Microsoft Copilot is struggling. The people there who know what they are doing are being eclipsed by two things. Too often, they aren’t the ones making critical decisions, and second, someone in the decision tree is starving
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Microsoft Build this year was all about Copilot, which will span Microsoft’s offerings. While any current computer can run Copilot, only special AI PCs run Copilot+. Copilot+ gets you to a whole different level of AI experiences that require the
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