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Digital transformation #mindcandy 17 June 2025
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Digital transformation #mindcandy 17 June 2025
The topics are AI liberation, low-code, Gartner top tech trends 2025, becoming an AI company, PepsiCo, rethinking AI, the gentle singularity and you are the upgrade.
The Most Important AI Future Job Is Nearly 3,000 Years Old
https://www.cdotrends.com/story/4594/most-important-ai-future-job-nearly-3000-years-old
An AI librarian is basically someone who is accountable and responsible for the integrity of information that we use to support our AI tooling.
Code Optional, Engineers Essential: How Low-Code Tools Are Reshaping Tech Teams
While LCNC tools can handle the basics, skilled engineers are the ones who design the big-picture systems, solve tricky problems, and make sure everything runs smoothly.
Gartner Top Tech Trends 2025: Amazing Innovations Shaping Our Future
https://techgenyz.com/gartner-top-tech-trends-2025-amazing-innovations/
AI agents, AI governance, disinformation security, postquantum cryptography, ambient invisible intelligence, energy-efficient computing, hybrid computing, spatial computing, polyfunctional robots, and neurological enhancement
Every Business Is Becoming An AI Company. Here's How To Do It Right
Business is being completely overhauled as artificial intelligence upends nearly every industry.
How PepsiCo moves past AI pilot purgatory
https://www.ciodive.com/news/PepsiCo-generative-AI-pilot-scale-strategy-agents/
The food and beverage company focuses on “four or five big bets” and provides an internal sandbox for employee experimentation.
Why some companies are rethinking the use of AI
https://www.morningbrew.com/stories/2025/06/15/why-some-companies-are-rethinking-the-use-of-ai
A recent survey from Orgvue noted that more than half of business leaders said they regretted laying off employees as a result of an AI deployment. The research also found that 40% of executives reduced staffing in order to implement AI, and 55% of those robot-lovers regretted that decision.
The Gentle Singularity
https://blog.samaltman.com/the-gentle-singularity
We are past the event horizon; the takeoff has started. Humanity is close to building digital superintelligence. What makes this singularity "gentle" is its deceptive normalcy. People still walk their dogs, drink their coffee, and swipe through social media. But under the hood, AI is reshaping how work gets done
You are the upgrade
You can order my latest book about books about AI, “You are the upgrade, augmented natural intelligence as the only way forward” here.
Data, acceleration, and the future of intelligence: Lessons from 25 core books (and links to 114 other books) about AI, technology abstraction, and consciousness.