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Nov 26, 2024 | 
databrett.medium.com | Brett Hurt
Four centuries ago, Native American visionary Tisquantum asked the civilizational question: how should we get along and manage the new reality wrought by the Age of Discovery? It’s worth thinking on this day of a similar question of yet vaster scope, one posed by two futurists: How will we actually run and govern a planet transformed? Brett A. Hurt·Follow13 min read·--How might Tisquantum, the father of Thanksgiving, imagine the challenges of today’s technological and cultural change?
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Sep 26, 2024 | 
databrett.medium.com | Brett Hurt
I believe every enterprise today should be working to become data-driven. But I also caution those same institutions not to become data-determined. This is the paradox in our moment of growing mountains of raw data, ubiquitous digital technologies, and unfolding artificial intelligence.. Yes, automation, autonomous systems, and robotics are transforming our world. But judgment, reasoned decision-making, and even leadership intuition have never been more important.
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Apr 9, 2024 | 
databrett.medium.com | Brett Hurt
Perhaps the most critical challenge posed by the global transformation being wrought by artificial intelligence is that we lack not just understanding of the technology and its promise, but the lexicon and vocabulary to acquire that critical understandingIn the blink of an eye, artificial intelligence, or AI, has dramatically crossed the frontiers of creativity.
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Mar 7, 2024 | 
databrett.medium.com | Brett Hurt
Today we announced our most important innovation in data.world’s history with the introduction of our new AI Context Engine(tm). You can read the fundamentals in our press release. Here I want to explore below why this really matters — and how it will shape the future of enterprise data and analytics.
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Jan 30, 2024 | 
medium.com | Brett Hurt
With the full swing of FY24 planning underway, enterprise leadership teams are taking a good, hard look in the mirror to assess where they stand, where they want to go, and how they’ll get there. Unsurprisingly, much of this corporate introspection is focused on generative AI. In the conversations I, and likely you, have had on the topic, one thing is abundantly clear: generative AI ambitions for the future are ubiquitous and grandiose. There is no shortage of excitement.
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Jan 13, 2024 | 
databrett.medium.com | Brett Hurt
You’re back from the holiday, you’ve cleared out your inbox, and your sleeves are rolled up as you ready to dive into the New Year. As arbitrary as the date to mark another lap around the Sun may be, it’s still an important moment to reset ideas, goals, and aspirations for family and work. So let me invite you to join me and my friend and collaborator Byron Reese on an hour’s circumnavigation of the universe as it is unfolding before us toward 2024 and beyond.
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Jan 4, 2024 | 
towardsdatascience.com | Brett Hurt
LLMs today suffer from inaccuracies at scale, but that doesn’t mean you should cede competitive ground by waiting to adopt generative AI. Every enterprise technology has a purpose or it wouldn’t exist. Generative AI’s enterprise purpose is to produce human-usable output from technical, business, and language data rapidly and at scale to drive productivity, efficiency, and business gains.
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Dec 13, 2023 | 
amplifyingcognition.com | Byron Reese |Byron Rees |Brett Hurt
Exploring bees as superorganisms and society as a collective entity (03:05) Traits of human society as a superorganism (08:07) Questioning the traditional boundaries of the term “superorganism” (09:54) Perspectives on life, from the cellular level to the concept of superorganisms and beyond (13:52) Deep contemplation of AI’s role and limitations (16:32) How societies, from ancient to modern, display superorganism traits (20:37) Blending scientific theories with speculative concepts on human...
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Nov 30, 2023 | 
databrett.medium.com | Brett Hurt
The aggregate of all of the information in all of our brains and across all our books, and everything publicly found on the internet, is now the genome of a new creature- 'Agora' By Byron Reese, author and entrepreneur, and Brett Hurt, CEO and Co-founder of The data.world teamChatGPT burst into the popular consciousness just one year ago: today is its anniversary.
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Nov 7, 2023 | 
databrett.medium.com | Brett Hurt
An image I made on Midjourney when prompting for a mash-up of NYC and Jerusalem and shared widely following the horror of 10/7 It's time to tame the perverse tyranny of this word "but" in our discourse on Israel and the now month-old war raging in Gaza after the gruesome slaughter, rape, and torture of more than 1,400 innocent people. The slaughtered are primarily innocent Israelis but they also include innocents from 27 other countries, including America.
