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A Contrarian View

A rarely updated blog, home of (sometimes very long) posts against conventional wisdom:

  • Amazon has won enterprise IT management
    January 31, 2023
  • The misleading TAM (Total Addressable Market)
    April 13, 2022
  • NoOps: Misguided Hopes, New Ideas, And Three Paths Towards An Attainable Future
    November 27, 2020
Alessandro Perilli
Alessandro
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Synthetic Work Podcast Edition!
AI R&D
AP Workflow for ComfyUI
A free automation solution for creative studios and large firms to generate images with FLUX and Stable Diffusion at scale.
AP Workflow for ComfyUI
Over 30K downloads!
AP Plot for ComfyUI
A free automation solution for creative studios to evaluate and compare FLUX and SDXL photorealistic AI models.
AP Plot for ComfyUI
The State of DeepFake
A series of videos to demonstrate the state of the art of deepfake technologies.
AP Matrix Deepfake
AI Adoption Tracker
A database documenting 130+ early AI adopters across industries and geographies, and 150+ unique use cases.
Synthetic Work AI Adoption Tracker
Fake Show
A synthetic podcast featuring the most realistic synthetic voices today's AI models can generate.
Fake Show
Media
Tech From the Future
A YouTube channel where Alessandro shows what AI can really do.
Tech From the Future
Synthetic Work
A weekly newsletter to understand how AI is reshaping jobs and careers, workforce productivity, and business operations.
Synthetic Work
Reality Distortion Fields
A new long-form podcast with Elias Khnaser. Let's apply some critical thinking to tech vendors' marketing hyperboles and product overpromises.
Reality Distortion Fields (RDFs)
Content
AI for Art
A series of works Alessandro produced as a pioneer of generative AI for art.
Artificial Intelligence for Art
The Brain
A collection of the most interesting passages and charts Alessandro finds in books and articles on a daily basis.
The Brain
Thoughts
A tiny place where Alessandro shares ideas.
Thoughts
Startups Worth Watching
A tracker of startups with enormous potential, curated by Alessandro.
Startups Worth Watching
H+
A research project on human enhancement technologies like neural interfaces, augmented reality, biohacking, bionic prosthetics, genetic engineering, nanorobotics, tissue engineering, and wearables.
H+
Bio
Alessandro is the CEO and Chief of Research at Unstable Reality, a boutique R&D lab focused on artificial intelligence.

Alessandro is a contrarian thinker with 25 years of business and product experience in the enterprise IT industry, and a track record in identifying hugely profitable markets and new use cases for emerging technologies ahead of time.

Alessandro also has a track record in identifying over-hyped emerging technologies that eventually have little to no business impact.
Things Alessandro has done in the past:

  • Tech executive, focused on business and product strategy for Red Hat
  • Global analyst, leading research in private cloud computing for Gartner
  • Entrepreneur in the media industry as the founder of virtualization.info
  • Advisor to Fortune Global 2000 companies
  • Co-author of the Cloud Computing Risk Assessment⭑ for the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA)
  • Author of a cybersecurity book⭑ for Arnoldo Mondadori Editore
  • Creator of one of the first ethical hacking trainings in the world for Mondadori Informatica
Alessandro also is:

  • A public speaker with over two decades of experience on stage delivering almost 500 keynotes
  • An inventor⭑
  • An art collector and a former corporate sponsor⭑ for Tate
Alessandro Is
an Expert In
Artificial Intelligence
Automation & Orchestration
Cloud Computing
Cybersecurity
Enterprise IT Management
Open Source
Synthetic Media & Disinformation
Virtualization
Alessandro Is
Passioned About
Art
Augmented Reality
Autonomous Vehicles
Behavioral Economics
Cognitive Psychology
Genetic Engineering
Human Body Enhancement
Industrial Design
Interior Design
Mass Surveillance
Neuroscience
Philosophy
Self-Publishing
UI & UX Design
Wearable Computing
Alessandro
Built
Project Wisdom
The first application of generative AI to automation in the IT industry: a large language model used to generate Ansible automation workflows (now called Ansible Lightspeed).
Ansible Security Automation
An open source-based solution to integrate and orchestrate 3rd party cybersecurity solutions through Ansible.
virtualization.info
From 2003 to 2010, the most authoritative online publication about virtualization worldwide, counting 7 million visitors per year.
Alessandro Invented
US Patent 10778701
Mitigating cyber-attacks by automatically coordinating responses from cyber-security tools.
Alessandro's
Essays
  • Amazon has won enterprise IT management
  • Open Source for Business People
  • Analyst Relations Worst Practices
  • NoOps: Misguided Hopes, New Ideas, And Three Paths Towards An Attainable Future
  • A killer app for the VR of the future: life tourism
Alessandro's
Podcasts
Jobs 2.0: The AI Upgrade - Podcast Cover
In the Press
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The MIT mentions Alessandro as a subject matter expert in artificial intelligence in a new research paper:
Why They’re Worried
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Milano Finanza interviews Alessandro about the Future of Life Institute (FLI) open letter he signed:
ChatGPT, l’intelligenza artificiale è davvero una minaccia o rimane un affare miliardario?
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Financial Times quotes Alessandro about the impact of automation on human labor:
How cloud automation is changing IT: repair, replicate and correct
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Time Out quotes Alessandro about censoring creative work produced with generative AI:
"I thought people would understand what I was trying to do": The story behind the film too controversial for London's cinemas
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