Enterprise IT

“I think the internal AI systems role thingy for enterprises, I think IT will, can have like a flowering moment here and, you know, go from being internal IT that's like setting up your computers and whatever to maybe have a system that's building a tons of int…”

“From an IT standpoint, you normally don't allow software to just be used across your organization with access to your organization's data and have no idea what's happening. We're letting that happen in AI all the time.”

“There has to be top-down alignment. That's what we found, is that there has to be alignment from senior leaders that this has to be done. Because as you get into larger organizations, the actual folks doing the implementation, it can be a very large team. And …”

“Over time as well, I think we'll get to a world where federated learning is also an option. But obviously as you think about federated learning, where you're learning from one set of experiences and transcribing that to another environment you've got to also m…”

“When IT becomes your customer, when you become an enterprise business, the quality of the software, especially the user-facing software, is no longer priority number one.”

“The enterprise is a retrofit job. It always has been.”

“Everybody wants to move to cloud, they don't know what that means, and so they're very quickly virtualizing the servers that they have laying around, and I'm a big believer that that's just not a useful, a good use of time.”

“Now that is trivial, because of software as a service, because of mobile, because of these platforms. So, Getting the data has become, you know, orders of magnitude easier, and so the next job is really, what do you do with it?”