“๐ฆ๐๐ฒ๐ณ๐ฎ๐ป, ๐๐ฎ๐ ๐บ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ต๐๐ ๐๐ ๐ฒ๐ถ๐ด๐ฒ๐ป๐๐น๐ถ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ป ๐ด๐ฎ๐ป๐๐ฒ๐ป ๐ง๐ฎ๐ด” – ๐ฑ๐ฎ๐ ๐ณ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ด๐๐ฒ ๐บ๐ถ๐ฐ๐ต ๐บ๐ฒ๐ถ๐ป๐ฒ ๐ข๐บ๐ฎ ๐ธ๐ฬ๐ฟ๐๐น๐ถ๐ฐ๐ต…
My grandma is 93 and still pretty fit and curious for her age, but she has about as much to do with what I do as a vacuum cleaner has to do with a daisy…
My first impulse was to reply somewhat flippantly “๐จ๐ฆ๐ด๐ค๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ช๐ต ๐ฅ๐ข๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฏ”. However, I realized that fortunately that is exactly what I am NOT doing.
So after a moment’s thought, I said
“๐๐ฐ๐ต ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ธ๐น๐ฎฬ๐ฟ๐ฒ ๐๐ฒ๐๐๐ฒ๐ป, ๐ฑ๐ถ๐ฒ ๐๐ถ๐ฐ๐ต๐๐ถ๐ด๐ฒ ๐๐ป๐๐๐ฐ๐ต๐ฒ๐ถ๐ฑ๐๐ป๐ด๐ฒ๐ป ๐๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ณ๐ณ๐ฒ๐ป ๐บ๐ฬ๐๐๐ฒ๐ป, ๐๐ถ๐ฒ ๐๐ผ๐บ๐ฝ๐๐๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐๐ป๐ฑ ๐๐ผ๐บ๐ฝ๐๐๐ฒ๐ฟ-๐ฃ๐ฟ๐ผ๐ด๐ฟ๐ฎ๐บ๐บ๐ฒ ๐ณ๐๐ป๐ธ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป๐ถ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ป – ๐๐ป๐ฑ ๐๐๐ฎ๐ฟ ๐๐ผ, ๐ฑ๐ฎ๐๐ ๐๐ถ๐ฒ ๐ฑ๐ฎ๐ ๐ฎ๐๐ฐ๐ต ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐๐๐ฒ๐ต๐ฒ๐ป ๐ธ๐ผฬ๐ป๐ป๐ฒ๐ป”.
From my point of view, that’s exactly the trick: ๐บ๐ฎ๐ป ๐บ๐๐๐ ๐ ๐ฒ๐ป๐๐ฐ๐ต๐ฒ๐ป ๐ฑ๐ผ๐ฟ๐ ๐ฎ๐ฏ๐ต๐ผ๐น๐ฒ๐ป, ๐๐ผ ๐๐ถ๐ฒ ๐๐๐ฒ๐ต๐ฒ๐ป (like a “๐๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ง๐ถฬ๐ณ ๐๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฎ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ช๐ฌ๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ”)… And don’t make yourself important with technical terms to show what you’ve got. This applies to companies just as much as it does to students.
๐๐ฒ๐ฒ๐ฝ ๐ถ๐ ๐๐ถ๐บ๐ฝ๐น๐ฒ!
After all, how is a CEO or CIO supposed to get to grips with AI terms such as RAG, LLM, GPT, MongoDB, Python, AIaaS, REST API, HuggingFace, ML, …?
At the end of such a discussion, there are more questions than answers – and as a CxO, you often don’t dare to admit that you have understood far too little. And decisions are then made on this basis? Well bravo…
That is why it is important that court opinions are written so that judges understand them, specifications so that developers understand them, processes so that business students understand them, textbooks so that students understand them, instructions so that users understand them and management decisions are prepared so that managers understand them! … and can sleep peacefully afterwards.
Of course, you have to go into depth from time to time and understand and discuss in detail what is meant by the terms. But always in such a way that you don’t “lose” anyone.
๐ช๐ฒ๐ป๐ป ๐ฆ๐ถ๐ฒ ๐ฎ๐น๐๐ผ ๐บ๐ฎ๐น ๐ฒ๐ถ๐ป๐ฒ๐ป “๐๐ฟ๐ธ๐น๐ฎฬ๐ฟ-๐๐ฎฬ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ป” ๐ฏ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐๐ฐ๐ต๐ฒ๐ป, ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐๐ต๐ฟ๐ฒ ๐ฆ๐ฝ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐ฝ๐ฟ๐ถ๐ฐ๐ต๐ ๐๐ป๐ฑ ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐บ ๐ฆ๐ถ๐ฒ ๐๐ผ ๐น๐ฎ๐ป๐ด๐ฒ ๐ฒ๐ถ๐ป ๐๐ผ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ถ๐ป ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ป ๐๐ฎ๐๐ฐ๐ต ๐ณ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ด๐ฒ๐ป ๐ธ๐ผฬ๐ป๐ป๐ฒ๐ป, ๐ฏ๐ถ๐ ๐ฆ๐ถ๐ฒ ๐๐ถ๐ฐ๐ต ๐๐ถ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐ณ๐ฬ๐ต๐น๐ฒ๐ป – ๐ฟ๐๐ณ๐ฒ๐ป ๐ฆ๐ถ๐ฒ ๐บ๐ถ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ฎ๐ป!
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P.S.: I can of course also play buzzword bingo. But honestly: who wants to do that…
