by iqentity | Feb 2, 2024 | AI Misuse
Most organizational controls were designed for a world where creating convincing fakes required skill and effort. AI has democratized fabrication. An employee with no special expertise can now produce convincing false documents, synthetic communications, or fabricated...
by iqentity | Feb 1, 2024 | Development, Tessera
The retrieval architecture is only as good as the data behind it. For Tessera to work, it needs to ingest, parse, classify, and index twenty-three years of professional and personal artifacts. The volume is significant. The variety is worse. Emails in multiple...
by iqentity | Jan 31, 2024 | Shadow AI
The velocity of new AI tool releases exceeds the capacity of any IT governance process to evaluate them. A new AI capability appears weekly. The evaluation backlog grows. Employees, facing no sanctioned alternative, use the unsanctioned option. The cycle accelerates....
by iqentity | Jan 29, 2024 | Shadow AI
The velocity of new AI tool releases exceeds the capacity of any IT governance process to evaluate them. A new AI capability appears weekly. The evaluation backlog grows. Employees, facing no sanctioned alternative, use the unsanctioned option. The cycle accelerates....
by iqentity | Jan 26, 2024 | Business Strategy
Vendor promises and operational reality diverge most sharply at the integration point. The AI model works. The integration with existing systems, workflows, and data pipelines does not. Integration is where 60 percent of the budget goes and 80 percent of the delays...
by iqentity | Jan 25, 2024 | Development, Tessera
A retrieval system that surfaces relevant information is useful. An agentic system that surfaces relevant information and then does something with it is transformative. The difference is the gap between a reference librarian and a chief of staff. Tessera is not a...
by iqentity | Jan 24, 2024 | Business Strategy
The data quality problem is perennial and under-addressed. Organizations that would never make a strategic decision based on a bad spreadsheet routinely feed bad data into AI systems and expect good outputs. The principle is the same. The scale is different. Vendor...
by iqentity | Jan 22, 2024 | Business Strategy
The ROI conversation for AI is fundamentally different from traditional technology ROI because the value creation mechanism is different. Traditional software automates tasks. AI augments judgment. You can measure task automation in hours saved. Measuring judgment...
by iqentity | Jan 19, 2024 | Development, Tessera
I have been sketching the architecture for what I am tentatively calling Tessera. Named for the small tiles that compose a mosaic. Individual decisions are small. Together, they form a picture of how a mind works. The critical design insight came this week: the goal...
by iqentity | Jan 18, 2024 | Development, Tessera
The first prototype of Tessera used pure vector search. Embed the query, find the nearest neighbors, feed them to the model. It worked about sixty percent of the time, which is worse than it sounds because the forty percent it missed were the cases where I needed it...
