This Week in Enterprise Technology, Week 22

For This Week in Enterprise Technology, Hyoun Park and Charles Araujo tackle the following:
[01:05] Will AWS App Studio Disrupt Enterprise App Development?
Amazon Web Services has just launched their App Studio with the goal of democratizing enterprise app development. Charles Araujo and Hyoun Park take a step back and ask "just what IS an enterprise app?" They contextualize where the App Studio fits into the current world of low-code and no-code app development.
TechCrunch: techcrunch.com...
[08:49] Celonis + Emporix = End-to-End Process Automation?
Celonis and Emporix announced the launch of an end-to-end process orchestration offering combining Celonis' process mining and task automation capabilities with Emporix' Orchestration Engine to sequence tasks into end-to-end processes. Hyoun Park and Charles Araujo study this offering in context of the process and workflow automation markets as well as prior enterprise application process augmentation promises to assess this launch.
Diginomica: diginomica.com...
[16:43] AMD Acquires Silo AI to Pressure NVIDIA
AMD acquires the largest AI lab in Europe, Silo AI, with over 600 employees and over 200 AI deployments under its belt. This acquisition helps AMD to build custom models for enterprise clients and to be a one-stop shop across chip, software tools for AI management, and the professional services needed to deploy models. In trying to compete with NVIDIA, AMD is racing to have the most complete AI ecosystem under its corporate umbrella. Hyoun Park and Charles Araujo look at this announcement from the CIO's perspective of supporting AI in production.
ComputerWorld: www.computerwo...
[22:35] Why CEOs Fail to Replace Employees with AI
A recent editorial in VentureBeat points out how CEOs are getting excited about replacing employees with AI, only to see poor results and dissatisfied customers. Charles Araujo and Hyoun Park discuss what AI should really be used for.
Cangrade CEO Gershon Goren for VentureBeat: venturebeat.co...
[29:06] What if AI Doesn't Improve Productivity?
MIT labor economist Daron Acemoglu posits that AI will only provide incremental gains to productivity, which flies in the face of the hyped gains pushed by Goldman Sachs, McKinsey, and other think tanks. What happens if Acemoglu is right?
MIT labor economist Daron Acemoglu for the New York Times: www.nytimes.co...
[33:50] AI Should Be All About The Money
This Wall Street Journal article written by Isabelle Bousquette points out that AI needs to be about improving top-line revenue. Charles Araujo and Hyoun Park discuss some of the metrics associated with AI, such as the potential for increasing revenue and profit up to 5% with AI, the Sequoia Capital estimate of AI becoming a $600 billion business, and the real-life assumptions that CIOs need to make if these are the metrics that define AI investments in the enterprise.
Isabelle Bousquette for the Wall Street Journal: www.wsj.com/ar...
[37:12] OpenAI Debuts A New Maturity Scale for Gen AI
OpenAI recently discussed a new 5 Level Scale for AI and claims everyone is working at Level 1. But Hyoun and Charles agree that this scale looks odd when it comes to describing the current state of AI.
TechRadar: www.techradar....
[41:30] Generative AI Can't See, Needs Bullshit Detector
Based on several articles, Charles and Hyoun quickly look at the latest science stating that generative AI struggles to "see" images because of a lack of training data. And then they also see how people are fighting back against generative AI bots and malware both through dedicated solutions such as Patronus AI as well as simply counterprompting with the simple phrase "ignore all previous instructions".
VentureBeat: Meet Patronus: venturebeat.co...
NBC News: Hunting for AI Bots? www.nbcnews.co...