Three types of AI. Two structural reads. One framework that holds them together. Each ends with a question to take into your next IT review. Or your next board meeting. Same idea, different chairs.
Learns patterns from history. Predicts what comes next, or classifies what just happened. Deterministic, auditable, narrow. Powers most of your existing BI today.
Read the insightTrained on text, image, code. Produces fluent new content from a prompt. Where every brand-name AI tool sits today. Strong, fluent, and prone to confident nonsense.
Read the insightObserves, decides, calls a tool, repeats until done. Powerful and early-stage. Governance-critical. Never give it autonomous reach into HR, finance, or customers.
Read the insightBuilt in two stages. Pretraining makes a document completer that has never heard of you. Fine-tuning overlays the helpful assistant. Fluent prose and confident nonsense come from the same machine.
Read the insightAgent, Orchestration, Inference, Transformer, Training, Infrastructure. Six layers, each with its own cost profile and its own strategic decision. Top-down: where the user sits. Bottom-up: where the spend lives.
Read the insightThe 4D Framework names four human competencies. The Capabilities and Limitations Framework names four machine properties. Each human "D" answers a specific machine property. Learn both, stop being surprised.
Read the insightWant the boardroom version of all this?