Technology and Innovation Musings - Alenka Caserman

Well, the other day, I got really frustrated with an app I've been using on my Garmin watch to track my wing foiling sessions. It kept crashing while I was on the water and I had to restart it several times when I noticed it crashed. I wasn't sure if the crashes meant the session recording data was completely or only partially lost. This is definitely not something I want to be worried about when I'm out on the water having fun wing foiling. I would also prefer to have my sessions recorded reliably as a single session so I can see how my skills are progressing and have reliable session statistics available in the Garmin Connect dashboard. This wasn't the first app I installed from the Garmin App Store either. Oh no, I think I installed and tried at least four, and some of them didn't even start or run to a point where I'd be able to test them. App crashing was a disappointingly common occurrence. When I came home that day, I decided to look into Garmin app devel...

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you will know that the year 2023 in tech was all about Generative AI or GenAI for short. I’m sure the hype will, of course, continue well into 2024. I’ve worked in the tech industry for long enough to see many hyped-up new trends and promising emerging technologies come and go through this hype cycle. Even Gartner places Generative AI on the so-called peak of inflated expectations in its 2023 report on the Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies [1]. GenAI is a subset or an emerging field of models and techniques within the field of artificial intelligence, that goes beyond what we already know as descriptive, predictive and prescriptive analytics and is capable of creating or generating various types of data such as text, images, code and audio in response to descriptive text prompt. In this article, my thoughts refer particularly to text generating capabilities of GenAI which are currently the most mature and readily available for consumption in t...