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

Everyone Has Access to a Personal Jarvis: Kartik Paramasivam on Agentic Engineering, GPU Procurement, and What Actually Breaks at Scale

Q1.  Kartik, you have built massive data infrastructures at both LinkedIn and Pinterest. As we transition from traditional software engineering to “Agentic Engineering,” how do the core competencies of a top-tier engineer change when...

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Kätlin Pulk on What Generative AI Is Really Doing to Higher Education — and What Educators Should Do About It

Q1. You and Riina Koris chose the title The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly deliberately — a framing that signals a refusal to take either the optimistic or the catastrophist position that dominates most public discourse...

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 NICD’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...