Value Creation

Three Tips for Committing AI Arson

AI. It's here. It's been here for a long time, in fact. Just because the computing power only came around in the last decade doesn't mean the idea itself hasn't been neatly stacked into a log cabin and prepared for inflammation for a long time. But I digress.

Organizations, governments, households. Big, small, medium, medium-small, medium-smaller. Animal, person, vegetable, fruit, mineral, vitamins, and gas. Brinker International, non-Brinker International. These are some of the n-chotomies we use to organize our world, our general-purpose ontologies through which we can filter our experiences into an intelligible sequence of stimuli. A new one has entered the fold: AI Firestarters and Wet Traditionalists.

No matter who you are and how big you get, you're sitting on a pile of fuel. Data fuel. So full of power, untapped insight, of numbers both positive and large... like a numerical Schwarzenegger. Of dots, both round and elongated - almost dashlike. These are the datums which we must seek out to more fully realize our inner efficiencies that will transcend us to the new horizon of AI.

Tip 1 --- Assemble your AI tinderbox. This means your analysis tools (flint & steel - Python; matches - Alteryx and its ilk), your data warehousing infrastructure (cotton), and IT support (carrying bag).

Tip 2 --- Find a committed AI arsonist. This is any changemaker who's willing to get out there and start burning stuff up, including fending off any Wet Traditionalists that might need a controlled burn along the way.

Tip 3 --- Sit back and enjoy the show from a fine Brinker International establishment. As an unbiased third party, I'm a big fan of their work, and for the allergy-impacted, Maggiano's is routinely crowned the most allergy-friendly large restaurant chain in America.

Don't be a wet-ass old bag of "traditional methods". Get with the data and get you some arson. Be the AI firestarter your organization needs.