An AI skeptic argues executives chase trendy tools without defining their actual problems first. Start with the business need, not the technology. Often automation solves it faster than AI.
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I'm a bit of an AI skeptic, but I think it's going to take a much longer time for it to really transform businesses than what the media would like to tell people. What most companies are doing is they're chasing tools. They're at a YPO forum, EO forum, CEO Alliance, and someone says, oh, we use this tool. It was awesome. Well, let me go see how I can use that tool. That won't do anything for you. You've got to chase the business problem. What's the problem we're solving? And what's interesting in our world is a lot of times we find these business problems We're there to do AI, but it's like, look, you don't even need AI. You just need automation is step one, and you're gonna make this problem way better. Most executives wish they had more time to work on the business and think and strategize, but they're firefighting and they're very busy in the forest running the business. And so they don't have the time.