Scott September 14, 2023

Tech, IT – What’s the difference?  Let’s ask Bard… Following on from my recent post about the terms Technology vs IT, I’ve been playing a little with Google’s Bard AI chatbot, so I asked it: “what’s the difference between tech and IT” and the result is included below. Large Language Models (LLM) like Bard and others (e.g. ChatGPT) are trained on a massive amount of text data and use probability to essentially predict from their model what the response should be.  So implying that the publicly available text on the subject holds this to be the case.  For subjects where…

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Scott September 1, 2023

Why do you call it a Technology company and not IT? Often the word Technology is mis-used.  Information Technology has become so ubiquitous that Technology, or Tech, or Tech companies are used where it should really be IT.  However, IT has grown into such a large and varied discipline that the term itself can appear vague. I’ve found, probably for the past decade, that IT has become generally used to mean day-to-day IT support services.  Technology on the other hand seems to be used for everything: mechanical, electrical, electronic, chemical, process engineering, transport and so on.  It is heavily used,…

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