AI is now better than checking documents, contracts, proposals and other similar work than you and me. (Good. I never liked doing reviews anyway.) This AI advantage only increases at scale. It can deliver the same level of service 24/7 at a lower cost than you. How many times have you seen stuff leave your organisation and then been horrified to find out what was sent to your customer. Best case is a poor brand impact; worst case is commercial and legal risk. We've built an a

AI only re-uses things that are out there. It's not creative. It can't cope with the demands of a complex ideation process. The history of human creativity is stuffed with so much re-use, it's quite a comical view to adopt. From Bridget Jones's Diary, a copy of Jane Austen, to Roger Sanchez sampling one verse from a 70s song from legendary Toto, the world is full of slightly tweaked copies. There are only so many words, notes and pixel colour values. Creativity is not desirab

From Andrej Karpathy, formerly of leading AI roles in OpenAI and Tesla. I've been saying this will happen for a while now. The charge that has been (reasonably) held against me is that I am selling AI services, so I am biased. I am biased, but that does not mean that a huge change is not a real thing. Software engineering is now a different discipline, with a new set of skills to augment the existing ones. https://x.com/karpathy/status/2015883857489522876

There has been a lot of LinkedIn noise about this AI Skills Hub box of weblinks website delivered to the UK Government by PWC for a cool £4.1m. A good post commenting on this below. I had a look at the new site. It's not a very good website (it's not the worst) but there are so many questions here. How can we do better and spend our public money to get greater value is one obvious one, but the key question, for me, is this: where has our ambition and visionary drive gone? 1.

I just used AI to discover a novel variation in quantum mechanics. This started with a conversation last week with Jeremy Davey. If Einstein had used a 1905 version of the Internet and an LLM could he have created the Theory of Relativity through prompts? The ChatGPT thread below goes on a journey through that topic and on to exploring what a paradigm shift breakthrough actually is. Often, it's a complete reversal of a concrete assumption (the world is flat, the sun orbits us

I have six things to say about this: 1. I’m not sure how a company that sells software to lawyers can triple in valuation to $6B in four months. 2025 revenue was just $23M. This is not unique to Legora, there are other AI SaaS tools that do “one thing” with these odd valuations. It only makes sense to the previous round of investors. 2. AI SaaS is not the future. SaaS is not dead but it is starting to feel a little tired in the morning. Custom AI solutions on a private and go

I was at the Microsoft AI Tour last week. Microsoft exists to sell products. I worked there many years ago in their industry team and the license always won over the solution. It’s in the DNA. They do make some great products. We are a top-tier Microsoft AI partner and we deploy them in our engagements. But AI is not about software products. It's so far away from what most businesses need that its like trying to sell them a chocolate eclair to hammer in a nail. AI transformat

Great article in The Times this weekend. Our country needs to invest more in supporting AI startups, amongst other future tech. If you want to support a U.K. business with your AI plans then drop me a line. Ian Hogarth We need to back ‘patriotic’ winners to build the UK’s first £1tn tech giant https://www.thetimes.com/article/a67e6cf2-eb60-42bb-a30e-8691d2a7c39d?shareToken=449eb80e7717538f6df4718b65416603

There is lots of talk about AI taking jobs. This might happen. It might happen quickly or slowly. New categories of jobs will appear, roles will change task mix and some tasks will completely disappear. The net position will likely not alter too much. This is what history tells us. When Google first bounced on to the scene, there were no SEO agencies. And now there are. With AI they become GEO agencies or they perish. And so the cycle continues. The best defence? Network wide

Clarity and repetition of key themes are fundamental tenets of messaging. If you asked your team these questions, do you think you would get consistent answers from them? 1. What does our business do? 2. What is the top priority for our business? 3. What is your role in that and what are your goals for this week/quarter? In my experience people find it hard to move their thinking to 1 and 2 when they spend so much time in one detailed element of 3. The context switch is jarri

Let's get experimental. It's very easy to get stuck in the mindset of we've always done it this way and this is particularly true when your previous efforts have been successful. You may notice that when you're not being successful there is a tendency to try lots of new things, perhaps somewhat in desperation. Neither of these is optimal, of course. In either state it is important to try new things in a controlled way that allows you to test a hypothesis and evaluate what var

Are you frustrated that your teams don’t want to change or try new ideas? I don’t think it’s possible to enforce change in another human. Change is an internal process, not an external one. So what can you do to help? You can give people a new input: a piece of data that could change their perspective. As an example, let's say you know you are overweight and you want to do something about it, but you don't persist with diets and lifestyle choices. I've been through this mysel

AI is not going to take your job. Someone using AI will take your job. Yes, yes, we've heard that before, Neil. The bit that gets missed is that those people using AI will need different skills. AI-enabled teams will need more emphasis on logic, critical thinking, debate and reasoning than pure technical capability. For example, writing efficient prompts for GenAI is a skill: if you overload the prompt you can create all kinds of problems including hallucinations in your answ

If you're interested in AI adoption rates in the UK then this is worth a read. https://www.thetimes.com/business-money/economics/article/will-ai-solve-the-uks-growth-problem-dont-be-so-sure-k75rd87kx It appears that only 37% of UK businesses have actively deployed AI.[Source is the IBM Global AI Adoption Index Report fromDecember 2023] I wonder how many of the cases where AI is actively deployed are either people leaking corporate data to ChatGPT directly, a SaaS vendor with

This is now a reality for non-technical people: you can build an MVP app to demo, with zero technical knowledge and a series of prompts. It's a skill, but it's not coding. And that is just fine. I had a go at building my first Python app over Christmas using a similar approach (as a non-programmer). I then went on to use cursor.com, which is amazing. The people with the ideas are always more powerful than the people with the facts. This approach can help democratise the first

If you are not spending hours a week learning, listening to new ideas, and trying to improve your emotional perspectives then you are failing your team. You would reasonably expect all of these things from people around you. You need to be leading the way. It’s not about hierarchy, it’s about action. I don't have time In my experience that is rarely the reason. You are likely choosing to prioritise other tasks over this. You could decline four hours of meetings this week and

We talk a lot about AI on here. It is going to change the world and reset the job market. However. I had to go to the dentist today and was asked to fill in a form with a pen. I had already given them half the information and someone will now rekey it all in. Most of the world is in this state, one where we have not fully digitised basic processes. Why is there not an accessible and secure medical record for me, that I can choose to share with people? AI has a very long and i

Technology adoption is a thing done by humans. Humans don't tend to cope well with rapid or disruptive change. AI is a very large and disruptive change. Will you take on the challenge to adopt an AI-First mindset? Do you have a choice?

Technology does not drive change: people do. People are complex. Even when technology exists to replace a job, the transition doesn’t happen overnight. People resist change. Companies protect investments. Governments regulate employment impacts. Educational systems update slowly. This economic drag means workforce shifts unfold over generations, not years. AI delivers amazing benefits to business but I suspect the speed of change will be slower than it could be.

If you work at, or with Microsoft, and you're struggling with Copilot adoption then we should talk. We've just released the Neologik Copilot Connector in beta. It does many things but two in particular: 1. Curates the information you use in each agent. We can version control the models and select specific content/workflows to use in different agents/scenarios. This hugely increases relevance and accuracy. 2. Output content into any Microsoft Office format. Use your templates