Hidden behind all of the buzz around ChatGPT is the dependence on the nature and quality of the data that built the models that run it. Peter Licursi and Chris Tanner join host Eric Hanselman to discuss how data drives the model’s capabilities, but can also create unwanted bias and scaling issues driven by the large compute requirements. Is generative AI the single most compelling piece of computational technology that humanity has seen? So much of what it can do comes down to the data.

The Super Bowl is coming up and there’s a lot that’s changing beyond just the teams that are playing. Justin Nielson and Scott Robson join host Eric Hanselman to examine the changes in advertising, the growth of gaming as it fills the holes left by crypto and the lack of streaming options. The linear version of the event gets a technology boost with the latest over the air digital video standard. There will still be beer commercials, but they’ll be different, too. There’s also a football game.

Infrastructure supporting technology is often hidden from sight. Understanding fundamentals, such as where the datacenters are that house so much of what we work with every day can be a complex exercise. A source of clarity is the Datacenter Knowledgebase and analyst Stefanie Williams joins host Eric Hanselman to look at what it is and how it’s used. Capacity and resource consumption for ESG tracking are just a start. http://www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence/en/campaigns/2023-trends-in-tech

For our 100th episode, analysts Nick Patience and Dan Thompson rejoin host Eric Hanselman to look at practical things that we can do with AI tools today. Improving the quality of astrophotographic images is a complex task that AI approaches have radically simplified and enhanced. Coupling natural language processing, as ChatGPT has done at OpenAI, opens new uses. AI driven models have taken speech synthesis to levels where it might even be hard to tell which is the real podcast host...

The regular glitz and hype of Las Vegas was kicked up a notch with the Consumer Electronics Show, now just CES, debuting the latest in technology. Analyst Neil Barbour joins host Eric Hanselman to look at what was more of an incremental step up, as the event returned to its pre-pandemic size. The crowds were back, but there were fewer mind-bending innovations, as automotive and industrial collaborations took the spotlight and display technologies improved. And yes, there was a lot of metaverse…

New technologies cycle through visibility phases, surfacing when breakthroughs are made, and quantum computing has just had a number. Still, the buzziness of the previous year seems to have faded. Is quantum getting boring? Analyst Gabriella Brown joins host Eric Hanselman to discuss why it’s not. New records have been set in qubit counts, and practical applications are flowering. Growing numbers of tools make it easier to put quantum to work, and more businesses are harnessing its possibilities.

As the New Year dawns, there’s a lot to consider in tech. Simon Robinson kicks off the year with a look at the trends reports for the coming year with host Eric Hanselman. This year the coverage has expanded even further than the traditional 451 Research Previews with the larger TMT view, looking at cloud, multichannel and broadband, fintech, customer experience, security, IoT, data, AI and analytics, workforce productivity, media, DevOps, cloud-native and more. And yes, even the metaverse!

The holiday season has most of us thinking of customer experience. Still, businesses have to expand their thinking to fully engage not only consumers but also the employees who are interacting with them. Research director Sheryl Kingstone returns to discuss how this season has progressed and look at what’s needed to make service a path to a better brand reputation. “Emotion is the currency of experience,” and businesses must embrace all available channels, including the metaverse.

The pandemic has made us all supply chain specialists as we worked to find things in a time of constraint. Eric Johnson, a Senior technology editor at the Journal of Commerce, joins host Eric Hanselman to talk about technology in the logistics industry and what’s changing in this complex market. Much like the ecosystems around the cloud, there’s a Cambrian explosion of companies working to address logistics complexity. Check out the TMP Tech conference: https://events.joc.com/tpmtech/

Many discussions around modern infrastructure pit cloud and datacenter choices against each other. Research directors Melanie Posey and Dan Thompson return to the podcast to sort out best execution venue, workload repatriation and the realities of modern infrastructure. Spoiler alert – it’s all of the above and organizations have to build skills first to understand what’s working for them and what they’re capable of putting to work and then build teams to run it well.