There are a lot of ways to participate in AI I asked who wa...

There are a lot of ways to participate in AI I asked who was helping business *adopt* AI Over +100 responses I summarized (not with AI) the answers into a 1-pager, bunch of cool insights Here's my read on the situation: * The TAM is massive, still so many businesses trying to figure out AI * If you do deployments you’ll need to spend a of time hand holding clients through scoping projects (not unlike other dev works) since the material is so new * Lot’s of opportunity in education * The hard part isn’t the expertise, it’s distribution (like all other services) * Lot’s of opportunity for simple process automation (instead of full-stack apps)

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Angel thesis around SMBs: A few of you know my personal interest in platforms and tools that empower SMBs and the general notion of AI providing small businesses some of the capabilities and advantages typically reserved for big businesses (making sense of data, security, marketing at scale, personalized experiences, etc…). Over time, we’ll see man... See more

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AI Services Thesis

Aside from the doomers who believe that AI will kill us all and the techno-utopians who believe it will solve all of our problems, there are three main ways that people seem to be thinking about AI.

At one extreme, you might fear that AI will take your job. Certainly, you’ve read as much in the press, and it does seem to be getting better and bette... See more

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I spent 50h with TOP AI leaders from Google, Microsoft, IBM, Nvidia, 5 things I learned. Because I was at the AI Expo Europe for 2 days, had 1 on 1 talks, here's what you NEED to know: 1. Flashy AI demos are CANCER. The audience is getting smarter and what they REALLY want is: Practical implementation. Cut the hype and fluff, tone it down, show ... See more

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Interesting tweet From Alex with great tips on AI

Service firms are hired for two reasons:

Do a job that the client doesn’t have the bandwidth or expertise to do.

Offer third-party expertise in decisions (cynically, to cover the client’s a**.)

That execution-oriented first bucket tends to include IT implementations (like cloud migration projects), financial audits, and outsourced customer support – ... See more

The Death of the Big 4: AI-Enabled Services Are Opening a Whole New Market

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Reasons you should still get into AI

Broad Potential of AI/Rate of Growth
- Jeff Bezos famously quit finance to start Amazon at age 30.
- He did this because Internet usage was growing 2,300% a year in 1994.
- Rollouts of
  
  general purpose technologies
  
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  span decades.
- Imagine being a “latecomer” to tech in the year 2000 or 2010 and concluding it was “too lat

swyx • You Are Not Too Old (To Pivot Into AI)

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Like many other people, I’m grappling with how to best use AI.

Reconsidering the Role of AI: Valuing Process Over Output

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4 questions of organizations [about using AI].
- What did you do that was valuable that's no longer valuable?
- What impossible things can you now do that you could not before?
- What can you democratize and bring down market?
- What can you do upmarket so you have new ways of competing?

Ethan Mollick, https://www.forbes.com/sites/jenamcgregor/2024/

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Technology Infrastructure + Artificial Intelligence Is there a way to structure, pipe and manage data better?Are there ways to improve productivity given the information overload and noise we have in our work communication?Can we make access to information affordable?Can we assist in critical machine to machine communication?Can we make it easy to ... See more

Jay Zaveri • World's Hardest Problems

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