Phil Smeeton's Tech Thinking Blog

 

SQL Server and relational databases have been around for many decades, with the latest generation of Gen AI, what are some of the wins for integration? Well, we can use a database to store the output of Gen AI and we can also store prompt texts in database tables to use in Gen AI at some point in the future. I also think that using SQL Server to query output from Gen AI can reveal some interesting insights in the data We can use automation from SQL Server to run many thousands or even millions of prompts and store the results. We can use Gen AI to create SQL queries and procedures etc although we must check the produced code carefully, the human has the final decision on what code should be executed.

Five years ago users would attempt to have meetings using software, tough to send invites, difficult to maintain stability of the meeting, difficult to have free flowing conversation and with constant technical anxiety and interruptions.   Nowadays it is smooth and capable, almost everyone knows the basics of virtual meeting systems and there are many power users of software like Teams and Zoom all together online video meetings are improving significantly in terms of user experience and I see a lot more improvement over the next five years.

If computers vanished today, the world would be forced into a dramatic reset. Within the first  5 years , global systems—banking, aviation, logistics, and power—would collapse before slowly rebuilding around paper records, mechanical tools, and local communities. Daily life would feel like a modernized 1950s. By  10 years , industries adapt with analog engineering. Factories, transportation, and trade resume on slower but stable systems. Radio, print, and mechanical devices dominate communication and media. After  15 years , humanity innovates within its limitations, developing advanced analog machines, fluidic logic, and non-digital automation. Society becomes less globalized but more resilient. By  20 years , a new equilibrium emerges: a sophisticated but fully analog world. Transportation thrives, medicine advances through non-digital technology, and craftsmanship flourishes. Life is slower, more tactile, and built on mechanical ingenuity—a retrofuturistic civiliz...

Everyone has either tried or heard of Gen AI by now and many users are obtaining splendid results. My vision of the edge browser for business is custom designed extensions using Gen AI intermingled with other assets. The developer can also connect to a cloud database storage to augment the functionality of the Edge extension. The secret sauce of Edge extensions is Cloud storage/DB, Gen AI integration and Glass-like GUI