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6 Critical Questions to help Businesses cut through the AI Hype
It’s always gratifying when experts confirm what you’ve suspected. Research firm Gartner put a shot of reality into our morning coffee this past summer with its critical analysis that artificial intelligence (AI) had reached the “peak of inflated expectations.” Frankly, I think a lot of technology vendors are blowing smoke about their capabilities. If your expectations were for Elon Musk-worrying AI, dial them back to the level of business software. It’s actually less mundane than it sounds. AI already has changed how we use data to make sense of our world. It’s also become a corporate fashion. For every AlphaGo Zero there are a thousand firms — startups and established companies — sticking the AI label on their wares like pinstripes on 1980s cars.
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