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Ross Barnes

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A Beginner's Guide to AI
Why Most Companies Create Their Own AI Bottleneck - Says Ross Barnes

it's the Bill Gates quote, isn't it?

A Beginner's Guide to AI
Why Most Companies Create Their Own AI Bottleneck - Says Ross Barnes

If I was building a company now, I would hire smart, lazy people because smart, lazy people don't want to do things that can be automated and they automate them for you because they want to do things that excite them.

A Beginner's Guide to AI
Why Most Companies Create Their Own AI Bottleneck - Says Ross Barnes

And that's what AI has the ability to do.

A Beginner's Guide to AI
Why Most Companies Create Their Own AI Bottleneck - Says Ross Barnes

That's good.

A Beginner's Guide to AI
Why Most Companies Create Their Own AI Bottleneck - Says Ross Barnes

And if you layer AI in that, a lot of us are probably using AI as a stupid laborer because there isn't the ability, there isn't the knowledge on how to use them.

A Beginner's Guide to AI
Why Most Companies Create Their Own AI Bottleneck - Says Ross Barnes

I mean, I was on a panel talk a couple of weeks ago with a gentleman who was very AI –

A Beginner's Guide to AI
Why Most Companies Create Their Own AI Bottleneck - Says Ross Barnes

negative had a negative view on ai and we and i i have a positive view on ai if ai is approached positively and we got into an argument well not an argument that's that's he was talking about how whenever he used ai it always made mistakes it always gets stuff wrong it hallucinates all the time and i said and i and there was lots of nodding and i said well it never does for me

A Beginner's Guide to AI
Why Most Companies Create Their Own AI Bottleneck - Says Ross Barnes

So what's the difference, the AI or me and you?

A Beginner's Guide to AI
Why Most Companies Create Their Own AI Bottleneck - Says Ross Barnes

We always blame the technology.

A Beginner's Guide to AI
Why Most Companies Create Their Own AI Bottleneck - Says Ross Barnes

We never blame the operator.

A Beginner's Guide to AI
Why Most Companies Create Their Own AI Bottleneck - Says Ross Barnes

And it can do wonderful things for productivity, for not creativity, but for sparking creativity if you give it the right inputs, guardrails, tools.

A Beginner's Guide to AI
Why Most Companies Create Their Own AI Bottleneck - Says Ross Barnes

And that's why we've got to look at ourselves, not saying it always makes mistakes.

A Beginner's Guide to AI
Why Most Companies Create Their Own AI Bottleneck - Says Ross Barnes

Well, you know, it's like I crushed the Lamborghini because it could go too fast.

A Beginner's Guide to AI
Why Most Companies Create Their Own AI Bottleneck - Says Ross Barnes

But to that point, Dimar, it's not going to get it right 100% of the time.

A Beginner's Guide to AI
Why Most Companies Create Their Own AI Bottleneck - Says Ross Barnes

And you have to check.

A Beginner's Guide to AI
Why Most Companies Create Their Own AI Bottleneck - Says Ross Barnes

But would you expect a human being to get things right 100% of the time?

A Beginner's Guide to AI
Why Most Companies Create Their Own AI Bottleneck - Says Ross Barnes

You wouldn't.

A Beginner's Guide to AI
Why Most Companies Create Their Own AI Bottleneck - Says Ross Barnes

And so there is still a burden of proof on the user to the output that they receive.

A Beginner's Guide to AI
Why Most Companies Create Their Own AI Bottleneck - Says Ross Barnes

Yes, I think so.

A Beginner's Guide to AI
Why Most Companies Create Their Own AI Bottleneck - Says Ross Barnes

And I also don't think they give it the conditions to succeed.