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Digital transformation #mindcandy 1 May 2025
Today’s topics are opting out of AI, AI agents running a company, data at scale, CERN, culture, and industrial AI.
Can you opt out of GenAI?
https://www.raconteur.net/technology/can-we-opt-out-of-genai
Generative AI has encroached on our personal and professional lives with many apps now sporting AI features. Is there any way to opt out if we don’t want to engage with it?
Professors Staffed a Fake Company Entirely With AI Agents, and You’ll Never Guess What Happened
https://futurism.com/professors-company-ai-agents
Current “artificial intelligence” is arguably still just an elaborate extension of your phone’s predictive text, rather than a sentient intelligence that can solve problems, learn from past experience, and apply that experience to novel situations.
How Meta understands data at scale
https://engineering.fb.com/2025/04/28/security/how-meta-understands-data-at-scale/
Managing and understanding large-scale data ecosystems is a significant challenge for many organizations, requiring innovative solutions to efficiently safeguard user data. Meta’s vast and diverse systems make it particularly challenging to comprehend its structure, meaning, and context at scale
Managing the world’s most complex machine
https://www.engineering.com/managing-the-worlds-most-complex-machine/
To modernize its approach, CERN adopted Aras Innovator—a CAD-agnostic, part-centric PLM platform—redefining its approach to integrated data management
Eight Ways To Leverage Data Analytics To Build A Thriving Company Culture (That Lasts)
Watch for a rise in uncertain language, data layers, behaviour mapping, emotional intelligence assessments, high-intent prospects, etc.
All Eyes on Gen AI, But Industrial AI will Get a Huge Piece of the Action
https://www.rtinsights.com/all-eyes-on-gen-ai-but-industrial-ai-will-get-a-huge-piece-of-the-action/
Industrial AI is a different beast from the friendly chatty gen AI tools that have dominated the headlines.
