As an artist and a programmer, I have watched with interest as AI text-to-image tools have become more and more powerful and accessable. While continually impressed and always hopeful, I admittedly also have some complicated feelings about new tools like DALLE-2, Midjourney, and Disco Diffusion. Having used a few services now to create concept pieces for some of my projects, it was exhilarating to see a fictional world that previously only existed in my head come to life! The image results are uncannily on point, coming up with moods, color palettes, and textures that usually reflect the prompts quite well, even if often there are characteristic AI rendering oddities. At first I was even a little disturbed by the strength of the results; the images were far beyond my own attempts at drawing out my own world.

Speed has always been a critical success factor in winning wars on the battlefield. You need to move troops faster, reach targets more quickly, and strike with speed and precision. However, what is often not talked about is how the speed with which decisions are made plays a role in claiming victory. Alexander the Great's success on the battlefield is often credited to the rapid decision-making capabilities of his armies. Enabled by trust and a decentralized command structure, his troops were able to beat their enemies by "out-decisioning" them.

Limited access highways have been accepted as a mechanism to optimize transport for many years. According to the Transportation Research Board (TRB), limited access highways offer greater capacity; improved safety; reduced fuel consumption; less pollution; more positive impacts on motorists; and more positive impacts on neighborhoods. From the point-of-view of autonomy, limited access highways offer use-models with a significant reduction in complexity. Not surprisingly, many of the initial applications for autonomy have focused on highways. In passenger cars, the focus has been on functionality such as advanced cruise control with underlying capabilities such as lane-keeping and of course collision avoidance.

Cognitive applications run mission-critical business systems in a continuous, self-driving, self-learning, auto-compliant, self-securing, and self-healing approach. These AI driven systems intelligently automate transactional systems and processes such as campaign to lead, order to cash, procure to pay, incident to resolution, concept to market, and hire to retire. The goal of an autonomous enterprise is to continuously automate precision decisions at scale. Why? Transactional applications have run their course. Pressure to reduce margins, technical debt, and investment in core systems create tremendous pressure for automation.

Tesla Inc. Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk and Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. Chairman Jack Ma, two of the leading luminaries in the technology world, sparred against each other on Thursday on subjects ranging from the dangers of artificial intelligence, the need to explore Mars and the future of education. Held at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai, the rare debate between China's richest man and one of America's more controversial billionaires began with thoughts on AI -- Ma is betting humans will prevail over machines, while Musk fears doomsday is coming -- but the conversation, which went viral on social media, soon transgressed into areas such as Mars exploration and aliens. Below are some of the more memorable exchanges, which have been edited lightly for clarity. They sort of think like it's a smart human. Ma: I never in my life say human beings will be controlled by machines, it's impossible...Human beings can never create another thing that is smarter than human beings.

Tesla Inc. (TSLA:UN) Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk and Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. Chairman Jack Ma, two of the leading luminaries in the technology world, sparred against each other on Thursday on subjects ranging from the dangers of artificial intelligence, the need to explore Mars and the future of education. Held at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai, the rare debate between China's richest man and one of America's more controversial billionaires began with thoughts on AI -- Ma is betting humans will prevail over machines, while Musk fears doomsday is coming -- but the conversation, which went viral on social media, soon transgressed into areas such as Mars exploration and aliens. Below are some of the more memorable exchanges, which have been edited lightly for clarity. They sort of think like it's a smart human. Ma: I never in my life say human beings will be controlled by machines, it's impossible...Human beings can never create another thing that is smarter than human beings.

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Prospects of universal AI ethics seem slim. However the five design pillars will serve organizations well beyond the social fads and fears. The goal – build controls that will identify biases, show attribution, and enable course correction as needed. Ready to roll out your plans for AI? Do you understand the business model implications? Who will you partner with for AI? Add your comments to the blog or reach me via email: R (at) ConstellationR (dot) com or R (at) SoftwareInsider (dot) org. Please let us know if you need help with your Digital Business transformation efforts. Here's how we can assist: Reprints can be purchased through Constellation Research, Inc. To request official reprints in PDF format, please contact Sales .

As organizations begin their journey into artificial intelligence (AI), ethics often enter the design process. While achieving a uniform set of ethics may seem insurmountable, some design points will help facilitate the humanization of artificial intelligence and provide appropriate checks and balances. Constellation has identified design pillars for Level 1 AI. Prospects of universal AI ethics seem slim. However the five design pillars will serve organizations well beyond the social fads and fears.

The quest for mass personalization at scale in an era of artificial intelligence (AI) has led to new models of design for the future of applications. One design point for these new AI driven smart apps is a concept called Infinite Ambient Orchestration. As new systems are created, organizations can expect this design point as a first principal for AI driven systems. So what will you automate first with AI? Do you have a digital transformation strategy? Add your comments to the blog or reach me via email: R (at) ConstellationR (dot) com or R (at) SoftwareInsider (dot) org.