Originally published in Forbes Note: Ravi Jain, Chief Technology Officer of Tapestry, the project at X (Alphabet’s innovation lab) discussed in this article, will deliver a keynote about this project at Machine Learning Week, June 2-5, 2025 in Phoenix, AZ. We aren’t ready. Even as the energy sector hurtles toward an inevitable — and much-needed — […]

 Originally published in Forbes I’ll break it to you gently: Magic crystal balls don’t exist. But there’s good news. We have the next best thing: probability. A probability isn’t a very technical thing at all. It’s a reading on how likely something is to happen. It’s a number between 0 and 100 where 100 means it’s […]

 Originally published in Forbes Even as large language models have been making a splash with ChatGPT and its competitors, another incoming AI wave has been quietly emerging: large database models. LDMs complement LLMs by capitalizing on the world’s other main data source: enterprise databases. Rather than tapping the great wealth of human writing such as books, […]

 Originally published in Forbes GenAI’s complementary sibling, predictive AI, makes fewer headlines these days, but its vital role in achieving operational gains only continues to expand. Moreover, many thought leaders and AI evangelists contend that predictive AI delivers greater returns than genAI. Here are three ways predictive AI will advance in 2025. 1) The emergence of […]

 Originally published in Forbes This is the third of a three-article series covering the business value of predictive AI, using misinformation detection as an example for illustration: article 1, article 2, article 3. It’s an established practice, yet it still hasn’t been standardized. Predictive AI has been improving enterprise operations for decades, but there’s no broadly […]

 Originally published in Forbes This is the second of a three-article series covering the business value of predictive AI, using misinformation detection as an example for illustration: article 1, article 2, article 3. Man, I wish I had a magic crystal ball. That would be handy. Fortunately, we do have the next best thing: probability, the […]

 Universities confront many of the same marketing challenges as corporations. While businesses need to attract potential customers, universities need to entice prospective students. A prospect needs to be converted to a customer, while a potential student needs to enroll at the university. Once you are an active customer, the business needs to maintain and grow […]