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AI will start doing more and more processes, procedures, tasks that various people do in an organization. A “job” is a nebulous term. All jobs have job specifications. These job specs change regularly in line with organizational requirements. Even the methods of doing the tasks changes. From a technological and AI viewpoint, these “jobs” will […]
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If you have a query with your supplier they typically implement customer support/customer care as follows:Large corporations use a multi-channel approach: Generally you will phone the call centre, or send an email or WhatsApp or fill in a form on their web site. All queries go to their ERP/call centre system/CRM. Someone will pick up
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If you are three times as productive as your competitors, if you can do a job four times as fast, will your sales and profits increase?Silly question! So why don’t you do so? Let me give a short anecdote from yesterday. We have a small conference and training venue in Ferndale. We worked out a
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The answer is slowly and carefully.Most big businesses ignore this advice and are spending millions on the most expensive consultants and then designing expensive software that will never work and be overtaken by better technology before it is implemented. Who remembers the early days of e-commerce? Around the year 2000, Standard Bank spent millions creating
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Meta recently commissioned Forrester Consulting to study how consumers experience generative AI.One key finding stood out:👉 “Consumers’ top challenges with genAI are receiving incomplete answers and an inability to answer their questions. Nearly half of the consumer survey respondents who have interacted with a genAI chatbot or automated chat complained that it was unable to
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🚀 AI isn’t the enemy. It isn’t magic either. It’s a tool. And how you use it determines whether it becomes a saviour or a villain.Recently, I’ve seen articles on AI about this topic. The common concern?👉 AI gets things wrong.👉 AI hallucinates. We’ve all read about law firms submitting fake case law to judges,
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South African Deputy President Paul Mashatile wants to regulate AI.Over the weekend the Deputy President stated “Artificial intelligence and technology, if left unregulated, will create a new digital divide deeper than apartheid ever was.” What exactly does he want to do? How do you regulate a piece of software?Let us remember that AI is simply
Automate. Automate – the act of getting work done in your business automatically. We are all familiar with a production plant that runs almost automatically. That fills up bottles, closes them, seals them, put a label on them ready for delivery, all without human intervention. We all are familiar with a website that takes your
Anyone on X (previously Twitter) will know that @Grok is the AI version of X. In the past week people are using it more and more because it is embedded inside X. You can ask it to explain or fact check a post. you can ask it any question just like ChatGPT.What is very interesting
I see two main areas where AI is used in a business. This is an arbitrary distinction, but I think a useful one. 1) It is an IT function: Your IT systems should be revamped to benefit from better software engineering. Whatever business you are in, an AI approach can improve efficiency. Remember AI is
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