The ASR Industry Is Solving the Wrong Problem
Speech recognition vendors have spent decades perfecting noise filtering. Research shows it often hurts accuracy. A different approach to acoustic intelligence is needed....
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Speech recognition vendors have spent decades perfecting noise filtering. Research shows it often hurts accuracy. A different approach to acoustic intelligence is needed....
MIT-linked studies show 95% of generative AI pilots failed to generate meaningful business impact. The failure patterns and how to avoid them....
Every nation wants AI sovereignty. Only the US and China have anything close to it. The rest are buying sovereignty as a service from the countries they're trying to escape....
How to see through AI vendor marketing: why demos don't match reality, how accuracy numbers lie, and what questions to ask before buying enterprise AI....
AI coding tools made experienced developers 19% slower in METR's study. But clear patterns emerge for when they help: unfamiliar territory, boilerplate, documentation, and exploration....
AI calendar assistants claim massive time savings, but rigorous research reveals a productivity paradox: tools that make you feel faster actually make you slower while introducing hidden costs....
In 1996 at MSNBC, I built Workbench - a content management system for editors, copy editors, and photo teams before the term CMS existed. Workflow automation for non-technical users....
ASR accuracy claims are based on ideal conditions. Real-world performance with background noise, accents, and domain jargon drops 30-50%. What AMBIE taught us about honest metrics....
Knowledge workers spend 4.3 hours per week fact-checking AI outputs. 47% of enterprise users made major decisions based on hallucinated content. The costs are mounting....
Legal terminology, manufacturing jargon, call center scripts - each requires specialized training. The myth of 'one model to rule them all.'...
The security industry profits from fear. Most breaches have minimal impact while companies overspend on exotic threats....
Gartner predicts task-specific AI models will be used 3x more than general-purpose LLMs by 2027. Why latency, cost, and privacy push enterprises toward SLMs....
