Category: AI, GenAI, Big Data, Analytical Data Platforms, Data Science-Blog Posts

AI for Smarties: A Conversation with Bertrand Meyer

Q1. You open AI for Smarties by acknowledging that you kept meeting highly educated people who were fascinated by AI but, in your words, “had no clue of what’s inside” — unable to answer what a neuron...

When Freedom and Authenticity Diverge: James Brusseau on What Philosophy Sees in GenAI That No Other Discipline Does

Q1.  You have written about “acceleration AI ethics” — an approach that argues for using ethics to enable and accelerate GenAI innovation rather than primarily to constrain it, in contrast to the precautionary approach that...

Halving Hallucinations: Jacek Cala on NIC-D’s Breakthrough Research into Graph-Based RAG and What It Means for Enterprise AI

Q1. Your team’s research shows that introducing graph-based tools into a RAG system can significantly increase the precision and recall of factual correctness, halve the number of hallucinated answers, and achieve the highest fine-grained...

Sovereignty Starts with the Hardware: Paul Speciale and Patricia Hillebrand on Building AI Infrastructure Europeans Can Actually Control

Q1 The partnership between Pyramid Computer and Scality sits at the intersection of two trends that are increasingly in tension: the urgency to deploy AI infrastructure quickly, and the growing organizational and regulatory pressure to...

Compliance You Cannot Demonstrate Is Compliance You Do Not Have: Willy Tadema on EN 18286, AI Standards, and What the AI Act Actually Requires

Q1. The publication of EN 18286 — the AI Quality Management System standard — is a significant milestone for organizations trying to operationalize the requirements of the EU AI Act. For a Chief Risk...

The Hybrid Mind: Joseph X. Ng on Human-AI Convergence, the OODA-F Loop, and Why Responsible AI Must Be Structurally Designed — Not Declared

Q1. What failure occurs when AI-assisted decision-making operates without an explicit Feedback layer? The specific failure mode is what I call loop erosion: the system continues to optimize under the assumption that real-world consequences...

From the Semantic Web to Agentic AI: Ora Lassila on Knowledge Graphs, LLMs, and the Architecture of Machine Understanding

Q1. In 2001, you co-authored the original Semantic Web paper with Tim Berners-Lee and Jim Hendler — a vision for web content that would be meaningful to computers and would enable AI agents to act on...

Data Without Borders: Luciano Brustia on Health Interoperability, Government Data Sharing, and the Real Challenges of Digital Transformation in Southeast Asia

Q1. You have been working across Asia for nearly 20 years, helping healthcare systems in more than 30 countries connect fragmented data into something coherent and usable. Indonesia’s healthcare transformation has been described as...