Paul Barnhurst argues that AI hype outpaced reality: most companies claim to use AI but few deployed it effectively, creating distrust. Finance teams should test tools directly and work backwards from business needs to find where AI actually delivers value.
Everyone's talking about AI, but no one's really doing AI, honestly. By the way, I'm starting to see the trough of the solution. To me, where people are like, I don't trust AI. I tried ChatGPT over my data and it doesn't work. So what I would say, and I'm sure everyone's sharing similar advice, I think as a finance team, we have to work both forward and backward. Forward meaning go log into activity. Like, try it. I do think it's really valuable to understand the limits of the technology and where it can deliver a ton of value.
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