Insights on Corporate Talent, Learning, and HR Technology
AI (artificial intelligence) is the domain of “intelligent data-driven systems” that use algorithms to predict, rate, rank, and assist employees and managers at work. Unlike analytics itself, AI systems learn from the data and continuously improve if they are developed well. Issues like ethics and “explainable AI” are important in this topic.
As OpenAI and Anthropic talk about going public, everyone is fascinated. These two companies with battling CEOs make up the drama of today’s AI industry. And as more information comes out from their public offering, everyone is wondering how they will compete with each other. (Listen to my latest podcast on culture in AI companies... Read more»
As AI expands its role all over our companies, a big question comes up: What will AI Agents do to HR and all our human capital practices?
One could imagine the HR department “going away” or being replaced by agents, and managers interacting with this AI Agent Cloud for hiring, pay, promotion, hourly scheduling, and ... Read more»
This week Gloat, a pioneer in skills intelligence and talent marketplace, launched a bold entry into the world of AI Agents for HR. It’s an interesting move, demonstrating how competition for core HR technology has emerged.
Simply explained, Gloat is offering a toolset (Gloat Agentic HR) which uses all the business rules and security you ... Read more»
This week Workday announced a bold and ambitious AI strategy around its new technology platform Sana. We have been partners and users of Sana for three years, so much of this discussion is also based on our own experience building our HR Superagent Galileo, which runs on Sana.
Who Is Sana?
First, it’s important ... Read more»
Last week Jack Dorsey, CEO of Block Inc. (makers of Square and CashApp) loudly announced plans to layoff 40% of its 10,000+ employees (4,000) and replace them with AI. The announcement was simple and there were few specifics about how this is going to take place.
LinkedIn shows around 13,000 employees with most in engineering, ... Read more»
Everywhere I go people talk about reskilling, upskilling, and accelerating the adoption of AI. This week I met with more than 200 CHRO’s in India and Singapore and the #1 topic was AI readiness: how can we accelerate AI fluency and capability in all areas of the company?
Well we’ve been studying corporate training for ... Read more»
I just finished diving into the announcements at Microsoft’s Ignite conference and comparing them to the AI blitz from Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic. I have to say, at this point I think Microsoft is very likely to win a leadership position in the corporate market for AI, with a few big caveats.
Before I explain ... Read more»
AI platforms like Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini are amazing inventions. They leverage AI models trained on enormous amounts of publicly available web data to answer questions, coach and consult with users, and behave like human-like “agents” to address a wide range of business needs.
Yet despite these capabilities, these models are “generic,” trained to ... Read more»
I just completed nearly 60,000 miles of travel across Europe, Asia, and the Middle East meeting with hundred of companies to discuss their AI strategies. While every company’s maturity is different, one thing is clear: AI as a business tool has arrived: it’s real and the use-cases are growing.
A new survey by Wharton shows ... Read more»
This is mindblowing. Today the BBC and EBU (European Broadcasting Union) published a detailed study which shows that around 45% of AI news queries to ChatGPT, MS Copilot, Gemini, and Perplexity produce errors.
In other words, the “dangerously self-confident” AI systems we use are quite poor at giving us good analysis of news. While the ... Read more»
Just as we get used to intelligent chatbots, video generation, and AI-powered analysis, research, content generation, and simulation along comes another good idea: the “digital twin.”
A “digital twin” is an idea which actually started in the 1960s, when NASA engineers built a digital replica of Apollo 13, the space ship which suffered an oxygen ... Read more»
This week we’re at SAP Connect and spent quite a bit of time with Dan Beck, President of Successfactors, the SAP leadership team, and a wide range of SAP Successfactors customers. I have to say, this was one of the most impressive array of enterprise-class AI announcements I’ve seen to date.
SAP Intelligent Enterprise
In ... Read more»
This week the AI market changed again, as the AI Slop tidal wave continues.
On Tuesday, OpenAI launched Sora, a new video generator that allows people to create short AI video clips. Immediately following Instagram parent Meta introducing a short-form AI video generator called Vibes to compete. It seems the advertising-driven business model has ... Read more»
Today we learned that OpenAI just signed a five-year deal with Oracle to spend $300 Billion on data centers (this is five-times Oracle’s annual revenues today), more or less doubling Oracle’s annualized revenue in one transaction. Oracle’s stock went up about 35% or more.
This $300 billion deal can now be added to more than ... Read more»
We’ve now spent years debating the use of AI for human decision-making: who to hire, who to promote, how much to pay someone, and hundreds of other things. Leaders are faced with complex, difficult decisions every day: can we trust AI to make them for us?
I’d suggest the answer is no, and that’s the ... Read more»
