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Is AI Conscious?
Reading Time: 5 minutesIs AI Conscious? arlier this year, Dario Amodei, CEO of the AI company Anthropic, said that he was open to the idea that his Claude AI model could be conscious. “We don’t know if the models are conscious. We are not even sure that we know what it would mean for a model to be…
Read MoreAI: Noise and Confusion
Reading Time: 10 minutesAI: Noise and Confusion Podcast ecent news has been filled with stories about the rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the potential existential threat it poses to humanity, voiced by smart people in the AI industry and echoed across the press and government. Last Thursday (Sept. 17), the New York Times front page ran…
Read MoreHistory of Hitachi: Founders Day, from 1910
Reading Time: 3 minutesHISTORY OF HITACHI: FOUNDERS DAY, FROM 1910 The multinational conglomerate Hitachi, Ltd. traces its history back to Namihei Odaira, a 19th-century pioneering electrical engineer. In Japan, during the Meiji Era of the late 1800s, with the move from a feudal society to an industrialized nation-state, the country wanted to take its place among the nations of…
Read MoreSecrets of the Partner Series – Channel Partners – Part 3: Recipe for a Successful Channel
Reading Time: 3 minutesSecrets of the Partner Series – Channel Partners – Part 3 – Recipe for a Successful Channel [ In this final blog of the Channel Partner Series, Wayne Greene and I detail our kitchen-tested recipe for a successful channel. Make sure you refresh yourself first with our first two blogs, Part 1 and Part 2.…
Read MoreSecrets of the Partner Series – Channel Partners – Part 2: Conflicts
Reading Time: 5 minutesSecrets of the Partner Series – Channel Partners – Part 2: Conflicts [ I co-wrote this article with a colleague from my Cisco days, Wayne Greene. This appeared originally on his blog. ] Wayne: Bill, on our first blog on Channel Partners we covered a lot of ground on this issue, especially on setting…
Read MoreSecrets of the Partner Series – Channel Partners – Part 1
Reading Time: 5 minutes Secrets of the Partner Series – Channel Partners – Part 1 [ I co-wrote this article with a colleague from my Cisco days, Wayne Greene. This appeared originally on his blog. ] Your manager tells you to take the new product that your organization is developing and take it to 10M in revenue in…
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