This year will be super exciting after the past year. Last year I planted a lot of seeds; this year, I will harvest the results.
Now let's go through the topics!
BlockchainLast year we started to build our Blockchain platform. After examining several platforms, we decided to go on our way. Thanks to my fantastic colleagues, now we see the results of our work.
This year we will be able to finalize our product and see how it behave in production. We had several features on the roadmap to fulfill, but the main goal to have a robust, stable platform, which able to replace databases in the future. We now have all the visions which we need to complete.
AIIn the second half of the year, we founded our AI competence group. In my vision, the AI has different research focus than most of the competence. In our case, we focus on Human-machine interactions. For this reason, we are mainly investigating NLP and NLG fields. These fields crucial to make effective communication with machines. If you spice these communications with emotions, you can reach the next level in communications. Just think about "Neuro-linguistic programming." which has the same abbreviation as "Natural language processing.". They serve an effective way of communication. Most of the workforce doesn't have psychological skills, so within communication, we can lose a lot of details, or even we can misunderstand each other. Emotions also take part when we memorize information. If information goes through a negative feeling, we will try to forget it. If it is positive, then we have a higher chance of remembering.
Most of the people don't have this high degree in communication to bear in mind all of these while reading the feedback from the other participant's face. That's why AI could help here also. And don't forget: AI able to learn from these conversations, so next time the same topic comes up, it can answer without human interaction.
Here is how we arrive at the next topic:
Digital Twins - AI AvatarsThese days we are digitalizing various fields of our life. Why would we skip the digitalization of the workforce?
I think in the next decade, this will be the most significant factor in the majority of the businesses. To draw a picture of the difference, please imagine a situation:
How much you get into the following situation: you write an e-mail, and the recipient of the e-mail misunderstands your goals.
How much effective, when you have an in-person conversation?
What is the difference? I can tell you! The body language, the face mimics. All of these colorful pieces of information extend how we understand each other.
This is why I believe AI Avatars will outperform chatbots with a magnitude!
For the next level, imagine if an AI Avatar formed from you! Learn your personality, your communication behavior. If this digital twin able to react to the body language of the communication partner, I'm sure in the short term, it will outperform you in communication.
Distributed systems - MicroservicesWe will continue our efforts to build more reliable microservices. Last year we mostly focused on functionality, but to have sustainable developments, sometimes we have to look back. I had many presentations where I told without proper governance microservices able to lead to chaos. Beginning this year, we will lay down the base principles for our services. With these efforts, we will be not only future-proof but much secure than the competitors. I have written about this topic previously in the following article:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/design-next-level-application-security-lászló-popovics/
From software to hardwareThe next section is also related to security and scalability. If we break down our systems to microservices, we will have statistics regarding modifications. Over some time, we will notice some of the functions not changing anymore. This is the momentum when we can think about move these functions to hardware. The first step could be an FPGA implementation, where we come near to the hardware level. In this phase, we still have a chance for modifications. When everything looks fine over another period, we start moving the functionality to ASIC hardware. Imagine what you could save on infrastructure if you move the most used functions to an ASIC. Optimize hundreds or thousands of CPU cycles to one cycle! Imagine the power savings with these conversions!
That's enough for technology! Let's move to the organization!Last year I met with the teachings of Ken Wilber. I think for our changing world, we need the mindset of Integral thinking. This mindset will make more relevant answers to every problem. Combining this mindset with the Growth mindset and Ikigai concept would create a great work-life balance. Last month of the past year, I started to live a more healthy life.
Thanks to these efforts, my fitness age decreased from 68 years to 50 years. I was able to leave my blood pressure pills, and now I have healthy blood pressure. This is how I identified the behavior which helps to live a healthy life. This year I want to spread this knowledge within my organizational unit. As finding the proper workforce is more complicated, we need to focus on keeping excellent talents! They need to live a healthy life and have an outstanding work-life balance.
This May, I will join the largest European Integral conference. I'm sure I will gather excellent knowledge which not only useful for myself, but for the community around me.
Looking forward to this fantastic year!