Azeem Azhar

They are at the point of what will the impacts be within organizations and what will the impacts be on work, on employment, and on education?

So really practical, tangible questions.

Whereas two or three years ago, the world, you remember that absolutely crazy and absurd safety summit held in the UK's Bletchley Park a couple of years ago.

The world was obsessing about robots climbing out of data centers and murdering us.

We've moved past those science fiction and fantasy discussions into more practical conversations.

The thing that has come out though is what a mixed bag of experiences firms have had.

I think it is clear that adoption remains in that early stage.

And when I talk to bosses, I'm not getting messages that say,

We're all kicking off with this.

It's all doing super, super well.

What I'm getting is we're still learning.

We're still figuring it out.

We're still rolling it out.

Now that is absolutely consistent with the view that exponential view has had, which is that we're still early into all of this and we should only be looking at low five, seven, eight, 9% of companies really claiming that they've got good success right now.

But that number should really rise over the coming nine months to a year.

And we have to keep our eye on it.

But in amongst that have been a couple of really big companies

household names, I can't just share them because it's been shared with me confidentially, who have built some really impressive AI tooling for some of their core functions, the real things they do, not just something that's over at the edge like data processing, but the heartland of their business units activity.

And that I think is really heartening.

to see if you believe as we do that AI will improve business performance and improve how well companies could serve their customers.