2019 March
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Why do we care about Human Level AI?
- March 30, 2019
- Posted by: Web Team
- Category: Uncategorized
No CommentsHuman Level AI is Artificial Intelligence that has reached the same level of intelligence as humans. This article does not talk about how we could achieve or invent Human Level AI, instead it deals briefly with the consequences of focusing on Human Level AI to the detriment of other endeavours.
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Why Agile can fail in Innovation contexts
- March 20, 2019
- Posted by: Web Team
- Category: Uncategorized
Agile works great if you can break a project into a bunch of tasks which can be estimated, and are achievable given the existing skills of the team. If you are doing an exploratory innovative process where you do not know what you need to know until you explore a bit, then I suggest that the many directives given by standard Agile methodologies don’t work so well. Moreover you shouldn’t get upset that they don’t work well, because Agile wasn’t designed for innovation. The Agile Manifesto (and its follow on suggestions), was created by software developers, for software developers, to optimise software development processes, with the implicit expectation that the client has full understanding of the tasks needed to be completed. There are however some aspects of Agile which I think are useful during exploratory and R&D processes.