The beginning of the synthetic economy?
Ron Immink
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Digital transformation mindcandy 5 March 2025
Today’s topics are cyber leadership, quantum supercomputers, AI adoption, incrementalism, low-code and AI, automation, building your own RAG, reasoning models and handing off to robots.
The beginning of the synthetic economy.
Geopolitics, AI, and generational shifts: Three key trends reshaping the future of cyber leadership
The latest WEF Global Cybersecurity Outlook identified ‘geopolitics’ as the number one challenge facing the cyber community, given it leads to state-sponsored attacks, and data sovereignty conflicts and hinders cooperation. Also read https://www.ronimmink.com/deglobalisation-and-system-collapse/
Inside IBM’s complex effort to create and scale next-gen quantum supercomputers
Researchers and engineers at IBM are hustling to build out a large-scale, fault-tolerant quantum supercomputer by 2029.
AI adoption will “explode” as costs come down
“Only 1% of enterprise data has found its way into any form of AI model so far,” Krishna said, implying that the majority of value from AI solutions has yet to be unlocked.
Is Incrementalism Holding Back Your AI Strategy?
The risks and opportunity costs of focusing only on incrementalism are well-documented
Low-code and AI: the revolution in software development
Will systems one day be able to write their own code, learn from their mistakes and independently improve without human input? That's the promise of Software 2.0
Opinion: How artificial intelligence redefines automation
The adoption of artificial intelligence is an increasingly critical factor for the viability of industrial production.
Dear IT Departments, Please Stop Trying To Build Your Own RAG
You would never ever in a million years build your own CRM system or custom CMS — or in most cases, your own LLM.
Does Your Business Need a Reasoning Model?
It’s the difference between “knowing solid pieces of information rather than linguistic patterns
The Handoff to Bots
Human populations will start to decrease globally in a few more decades. At the same historical moment as this decrease, we are creating millions of AIs and robots and agents, who could potentially not only generate new and old things, but also consume them as well.