If you want to get started with using a pre-built #ai tools to help your business but don’t know where to start, this is a helpful map of #ai agents grouped by domain. I think it also serves as an interesting snapshot of where the best use cases must be

2024 Ofcom Online Nation summarised into some key takeaways: ๐—ง๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐——๐—ถ๐—ด๐—ถ๐˜๐—ฎ๐—น ๐—š๐—ฒ๐—ป๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ ๐—š๐—ฎ๐—ฝ: Women spend significantly more time online than men across all age groups, with 18-24 year old women spending over an hour longer online daily than their male counterparts (6h 36m vs 5h 28m). ๐—ง๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐—ต ๐—š๐—ถ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐˜๐˜€ ๐——๐—ผ๐—บ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ฒ โ€ฆ

2x2 for articulate AI needs Y-axis - “Trust” - how important it is that the product gives a correct answer to be helpful X-axis - “Change” - the business change effort to get the product to workย ๐—•๐—ผ๐˜๐˜๐—ผ๐—บ ๐—Ÿ๐—ฒ๐—ณ๐˜ = Easy to fit into existing workflows, easy to verify their outputs โ€ฆ

The evolution of vertical SaaS - i.e. software stacks that serve an industry vertical showing how AI can build on the work of Cloud and Fintech to enable more complex customer facing services to be automated. Allowing the business to focus on serving their customers.

Useful AI Links

Aggregator/Community: Hugging Face: An AI community platform facilitating collaboration among the machine learning community on models, datasets, and applications. There's an AI for That: A comprehensive database featuring thousands of AI tools for various tasks, updated daily and utilized by over โ€ฆ

101 real-world GenAI uses cases from Google

Microsoftโ€™s Future of Work 2024 , highlighting the use of LLMs in the workplace

House of Lords committee review on GenAI

A proposal for the modern AI stack

Every year Benedict Evans produces an invaluable resource for anyone doing research, analysis or strategy work in tech. This the report for 2024.

Great overview of the Netflix architecture

Really helpful graphic comparing SDLC vs DevOps vs NoOps. Useful to guide conversations about orgโ€™s maturity and where they should sit.

Piece from the Google team on what AI can/canโ€™t do when improve marketing for consumer brands

Huge in China, now growing in India, surprised there isnโ€™t more of it in Europe - live stream e-commerce

10 takeaways from โ€˜The Hard Thing About Hard Thingsโ€™

Here are 10 key takeaways from Ben Horowitz’s book “The Hard Thing About Hard Things”: There are no shortcuts to knowledge: Relying on conventional wisdom and shortcuts can be worse than knowing nothing. Example: Horowitz emphasises that CEOs are always learning through โ€ฆ

10 takeaways from โ€˜Moneyballโ€™

Here are 10 key takeaways from Michael Lewis' book “Moneyball”: Challenge Conventional Wisdom: Billy Beane questioned the traditional methods of evaluating baseball talent used by scouts. Example: Beane focused on undervalued skills like on-base percentage rather than tools like speed โ€ฆ

10 takeaways from โ€˜The Lean Startupโ€™

Here are 10 key takeaways from Eric Ries' book “The Lean Startup”: Entrepreneurs are Everywhere: Entrepreneurship is a mindset that can be applied in any organization, not just startups. Example: Ries cites the example of “intrapreneurs” who innovate within established โ€ฆ

10 takeaways from โ€˜The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketingโ€™

Here are 10 key takeaways from Al Ries and Jack Trout’s book “The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing”: The Law of Leadership: It’s better to be first in a category than to be better. Example: Coca-Cola was the first successful cola, even though Pepsi may taste better to some. โ€ฆ

10 takeaways from โ€˜In the Plexโ€™

Here are 10 key takeaways from Steven Levy’s book “In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives”: Engineering Mindset: Google’s success is rooted in its engineering-driven culture that values speed, openness, experimentation, and risk-taking. Example: โ€ฆ

40 products not built in the West that are changing tech

2023 Ofcom report on news consumption in the UK - https://www.ofcom.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0024/264651/news-consumption-2023.pdf

UK Gov report on Digital Transformation - www.nao.org.uk/reports/d…

Deep dive into how Twitter Fact-checking system - www.bloomberg.com/graphics/…

Ofcom research of time spent on mobile in 2022 - https://www.ofcom.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0026/247544/annex-5-ipsos-iris-passive-monitoring-analysis.pdf

Digital blueprint for Greater Manchester - https://www.greatermanchester-ca.gov.uk/media/6275/gmca_blueprint_jul-22.pdf