I’m not one to brag, but for a short period of time, I was a top Kindle publisher in the not-so-large Amish romance genre. I’m from rural Pennsylvania, but even with that credential, I never thought I ...
Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. It’s easy for those of us in the tech industry to fall under the spell of the "shiny object" ...
When I first wrote “Vector databases: Shiny object syndrome and the case of a missing unicorn” in March 2024, the industry was awash in hype. Vector databases were positioned as the next big thing — a ...
US Environmental Protection Agency CIO Carter Farmer has a blunt message for AI hype-chasers: Shiny-object syndrome too often drives teams to leap into AI without defining a clear use case or vetting ...
Since the dawn of marketing, teams have been regularly sidetracked from solid strategic work to investigate if they "should be using [insert new shiny thing]." In the late 2000s, social media was ...
If we believe that people is the most important piece of the puzzle to solve for successfully changing an organization to become more data-driven and integrate data and analytics into its processes ...
In recent months, the topic of artificial intelligence (AI) has taken center stage in legacy and social media and impassioned rants on YouTube. The idea of self-aware programs that learn beyond their ...