FOREWORD
TECHNOLOGY MAGAZINE TEAM
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF MARCUS LAW
EDITOR MAYA DERRICK
LEAD DESIGNER REBEKAH BIRLESON
ACCOUNT MANAGERS CONNOR DODDINGTON TOM VENTURO
PRODUCTION MANAGERS JANE ARNETA YEVHENIIA SUBBOTINA
PRODUCTION DIRECTOR DANIELA KIANICKOVÁ
GROUP CONTENT DIRECTOR STEVEN DOWNES
CHIEF REVENUE OFFICER JAMES WHITE
CHIEF COMMERCIAL OFFICER LEWIS VAUGHAN
CEO GLEN WHITE
IBM’ S LEON BUTLER: STOP PLAYING, START MEASURING AI
Most AI conversations sound like science fiction. Leon Butler talks about test tubes. The recently-appointed IBM UK & I CEO’ s metaphor – would you drink from an opaque mixture? – cuts straight to the problem plaguing enterprise AI: nobody knows what these models are trained on. While competitors continue to chase billion-parameter headlines, IBM is hunting productivity gains you can measure.
His message is stark: stop playing with pilots that go nowhere. Start small, prove value, scale up. With £ 400bn of UK economic potential at stake, this approach might just be revolutionary.
Elsewhere this month:
• A decade of AWS Lamda
• How a rise in machine identities creates risks for enterprises
• An interview with Group CIO of Computacenter, John Gibbs
As always, thanks for reading and enjoy the issue.
Marcus Law
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