Jouko Ahvenainen

Asia–Pacific (APAC), Monaco, San Francisco, United Kingdom

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2025: AI Takes the Lead, Geopolitics Reshape Business, and Tech Sparks a Revolution

Dec 29, 2024 | aijourn.com | Jouko Ahvenainen

Predicting a new year is both exciting and practical. Beyond the fun of speculation, it’s vital to form scenarios and a foundation for planning. The goal isn’t to guess the future but to evaluate the current landscape and identify paths forward. This decade has been anything but predictable. We’ve faced the challenges of COVID-19, geopolitical tensions, and the transformative impact of generative AI, which marked a significant turning point in AI development.
AI is Not Objective, Nor Neutral: How to Be Unique in an AI-Driven World

Dec 3, 2024 | aijourn.com | Jouko Ahvenainen

Humans naturally have subjective opinions and perspectives. When we seek objective information, we might turn to AI, expecting neutrality. However, AI is neither entirely objective nor free from biases. In fact, AI can exhibit “strong opinions” or biases based on its design and training data. Different AI Tools, Different AnswersIt’s possible to compare how various AI tools respond to the same questions. For this article, I tested ChatGPT by OpenAI, Mistral AI from France, and DeepSeek from China.
Who Manages Data, Manages AI – And It’s More Complex Than You Think | The AI Journal

Nov 21, 2024 | aijourn.com | Jouko Ahvenainen

The AI giants, OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, and others, are racing to develop world-dominating AI models. To achieve this, they aim to harness as much data as possible for training. This creates an uneven playing field for other companies trying to build better models, even for niche applications, as these massive AI systems continue to evolve at an astonishing pace. But that’s not the whole story. There’s still a significant amount of data these tech giants can’t access.
Investing in AI is Tough, But Essential

Oct 14, 2024 | aijourn.com | Jouko Ahvenainen

AI is changing the game. It’s disrupting industries, boosting efficiency, and reshaping the future of business. So, if you want to invest smartly, you cannot ignore AI. But it’s not as simple as it sounds. AI can disrupt even AI-driven companies. Let’s break it down. There are three main types of AI companies you can invest in:The Builders: Companies creating new AI models. The Innovators: Companies using AI to create new solutions. The Transformers: Companies leveraging AI to enhance their operations.
How Individuals Get AI to Work for Themselves

Aug 22, 2024 | aijourn.com | Jouko Ahvenainen

AI is coming to businesses, and it will change how employees work. It will also take jobs from some people. But what can individuals do with AI? How can individuals better utilize AI, and how can AI empower them? This aspect is discussed far less than AI in enterprises. Let’s explore some models for how individuals, especially in business, can leverage AI.
Where Are We with AI?

Aug 8, 2024 | aijourn.com | Jouko Ahvenainen

I’ve spent a few weeks mainly in Silicon Valley, meeting with many people and companies, speaking at events, and reviewing the market for my portfolio companies. AI is everywhere. Most companies try to understand and utilize it in some way, founders are looking for new opportunities, and most networking events focus on it. At the same time, tech stocks are falling, and investors warn about an AI bubble. What should we conclude?
Digital clones - who owns and uses yours?

Aug 30, 2023 | disruptive.asia | Jouko Ahvenainen

Now, we have digital clones to contend with! Generative AI has enabled services that can learn from an individual’s behavior, style and character and start to act like that individual. It means all of us can have a personal or digital clone and personal AI that behaves and even sounds like us. But who owns it? Is it you or a company that enables this? Should you allow access to all your data to somebody who digitally clones you?
What impact does AI have on jobs, and who controls it?

Aug 24, 2023 | disruptive.asia | Jouko Ahvenainen

Does AI make our jobs better or worse? And for whom does AI work? And who really makes the decisions? We’ve all heard that technology is coming to take boring routine work from us, enabling us to perform more meaningful and productive work. This is the story heard in many workplaces when companies increase automation. Quite often, the reality is much more complicated. I remember visiting Nokia’s factory when discussing meaningful work and new processes.
Failing geopolitical restrictions, it’s all about networks

Aug 16, 2023 | disruptive.asia | Jouko Ahvenainen

Companies have also started minimizing their geopolitical risks by preferring some sources, using restrictions, or avoiding others altogether. The US is worried about buying and investing in China. There are sanctions on buying from and selling to Russia. Many countries want to promote friend-shoring to minimize dependencies on countries outside their own allies. However, it is not as simple as that.
Can AI help with coding or even replace no-code?

Aug 9, 2023 | disruptive.asia | Jouko Ahvenainen

Generative AI is now used for many purposes. Developers, and even some others, use it for coding too. Can we expect it to really change coding, especially when people can just describe their needs in plain English and get code? It’s not really so simple, but it opens many new opportunities to change software development. Software development is usually a bottleneck to implementing new services, automating work and getting differing existing systems to work together.