A must-read HBR article! https://hbr.org/2024/09/ai-wont-give-you-a-new-sustainable-advantage Excerpt from the article: Gen AI is certainly making companies more efficient. At a 2024 conference of chief information officers, executives from dozens of companies spoke about the ways in which the technology was reducing costs for their organizations. Ally Financial’s CIO described how gen AI had lowered the cost of summarizing interactions between its service people and its customers; Cisco’s CIO related that gen AI was generating computer code in increasingly efficient ways; and the CIO at Dow outlined how his company was using it to reduce the costs of handling materials and evaluating whether a new product was patentable. In February 2024 Klarna, a financial services company, reported that two-thirds of its customer-service chats had been handled by an AI-driven assistant in the program’s first month, with significant reductions in cost and increases in speed and no decline in customer satisfaction. The trouble is that gen AI can deliver similar savings to any company that deploys it. Value is created but not captured—at least not for long.

Gartner Predicts 30% of Generative AI Projects Will Be Abandoned After Proof of Concept By End of 2025. https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2024-07-29-gartner-predicts-30-percent-of-generative-ai-projects-will-be-abandoned-after-proof-of-concept-by-end-of-2025

https://www.forbes.com/sites/bernardmarr/2024/07/30/generative-ai-myths-the-5-biggest-misunderstandings/

Hey Everyone! I am starting a new series of threads in this community to dump random AI ideas I get while on the move. Feel free to use the hashtag “#AIwasthinking” to dump your ideas as well. Anyways, here’s my idea as someone currently clocking into my job at a bank: An AI powered coffee maker that instantly starts making your coffee once you tap into the office. Let me know what you think! Are there already tools like this out there? #AIwasthinking

Ask two people and you get three opinions. Nonetheless, Sequoia Capital Partner David Cahn estimates that the GenAI industry needs to generate ca. USD600bn in revenue annually to make investments worthwhile (btw: this estimate is up from USD200bn some months ago). The by far most well established AI company is surely OpenAI, with an estimated revenue of USD3.4bn ... Will we see prices hike significantly for subscriptions? https://www.inc.com/sam-blum/new-warnings-ai-bubble-when-could-it-burst.html