2021 January Anthropic founded by Dario Amodei and sister Daniela Amodei with 5 another five ex-employees of OpenAI. 2022 November 30 Wednesday OpenAI release ChatGPT. Running off GPT 3.5. Sam Altman (CEO) sends tweet at 11:30am. People start using ChatGPT 2023 March 14 Tuesday OpenAI release ChatGPT 4 (4months from the first version). Introduced ChatGPT…

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2010 DeepMind founded by English scientists – Demis Hassabis, Mustafa Suleyman, Shane Legg. Funding from Peter Thiel (PayPal) and Elon Musk (Tesla). DeepMind Original Logo (2010) 2014 DeepMind sold to Google. Musk not happy with Google as little influence. Founds OpenAI with Sam Altman. 2015 OpenAI founded by Sam Altman*, Elon Musk, Ilya Sutskever, Greg…

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ETSI – European Telecommunication Standards Institute Specialise in standards from telecommunication systems (phones and the internet) ETSI standards are in the form or standards (ES), guides (EG), technical specifications (TS), technical reports (TR), group specifications (GS) and group report (GR) Example

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Learning how to describe and share a view of the world In systems engineering (SE) being able to describe how something could, does, and does not work is crucial. When you are in a car and a warning light comes up somewhere back in the factory there will be a drawing (schematic) of what triggers…

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Being a systems engineer is a weird job for many as it’s both specific (technical expert) and broad (product manager). Finding the boundaries for the a system engineer’s role can be tricky as there are lots of overlap with other skilled workers such as business analysts, product managers, architects, and project managers to name but…

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What is … a. WSO2 https://wso2.com/ Founded 2005, initially an open source middleware company. Build open source software. Offer a suite of application development and IAM technologies b. Camel;c. Rancher;d. Swarm;e. Nginx, Nginx+ with Mod_Security;f. Kong;

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Tools have always defined how much humans can get out of their environment be that the simple stone axe, ceramic bowl all the way through to complex machinery externally powered. Today it’s all about computation and the transfer of information notably via the Internet which states the rules or protocols of transferring information be that…

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Organizational fit into an environment was started with Fred Edmund Emery (1925 – 97) with Eric Lansdown Trist (1909 – 93) who moved from an external environment affecting an organization to Robert B Duncan  where the management’s perception of the environment set the strategy making the environmental fit subject to interpretation, learning, and bias.  The…

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