iSAQB Software Architecture Gathering
1. When in your life and how have you encountered the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy? (radio, books, tv, movie; as child, young adult, later?) Did it help you?
Studying computer science in the 90ties in Denmark, it seemed everyone else had read, or at least was familiar with, HHGTTG. In order to understand the jokes and references to 42 and "SEP field" I had to read it. My husband, who is British, later introduced me to the radio sitcom that started it.
I find Douglas Adams' humour very interesting, because he uses a lot of surprises in the sentences. It starts with something that you know and you think you know how the sentence will end, but then he baffles you with a completely unexpected word or meaning of a word.
2. Do you sense panic in people and organisations when it comes to AI? What types of panic? (FOMO, despair, costs, just change)
Yes, some developers are afraid of being obsolete, some are even afraid of AI taking over their lives in general. Some managers are afraid that the cost will be much higher once we have all grown accustomed to using it, and have forgotten how to live without it.
3. Are there inadequate use cases for (generative) AI, or is it going to be just everywhere? Is that a valid dichotomy at all?
4. Apart from the for what aspect, is there also a wrong way to use AI? And what indicators exist for doing it right?
5. You have a background around coaching teams and helpful working environments — does the use of AI change what works well for teams?
6. How do you address the downsides, harms and externalities of hyperscaled generative AI for yourself? Can you?
I believe that communication between people globally is very important for addressing these negative consequences. We need to have the courage to share what we learn, also the learnings that came with pain or embarrassment.
7. Last year you referenced Tolkien, this year Douglas Adams, is it going to be Terry Pratchett next?
That is SUCH a great idea, thank you! I will surely create something with the Discworld universe, which I am a great fan of. Perhaps start with an analogy between a golem and AI; A golem is inert clay until you write a "chem" (words of command) and put it in its head. From then on, it executes those instructions literally, tirelessly, without judgment.
A golem told to "fill this cart with water" will keep pouring water into an already-overflowing cart forever, because the instruction said "fill," not "fill, and then stop." That's basically spec ambiguity and reward hacking, four centuries before either term existed.
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