Originally published in Forbes Predictive AI and generative AI are two very different animals that, it turns out, desperately need one another. Since they serve different purposes, projects that employ them are often siloed away from each other. Yet these two “flavors” of AI are destined to marry because each is suited to address the […]

  Originally published in Forbes Executives know the importance of predictive AI. As Unilever CDO Morgan Vawter wrote, “Its practical deployment represents the forefront of human progress: improving operations with science.” But there’s bad news for data scientists: Your predictive AI project will probably fail. Your customer probably won’t operationalize the machine learning model you deliver. They won’t […]

  Originally published in Forbes To know that we’re in an AI bubble, you don’t need OpenAI chair Bret Taylor or Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi to admit it, as they have. Nor do you need to analyze the telltale economics of inflated valuations, underwhelming revenues and circular financing. Instead, just examine the outlandish claim that’s been driving the hype: We’re nearing […]

  Originally published in Forbes I recently wrote about how agentic AI is the new vaporware, reasoning that it’s a hype term that repackages pie-in-the-sky AI ambitions, but does not allude to any particular advancement that might achieve them. The buzzword amplifies the overpromising narrative that we’re rapidly headed toward a great leap in autonomy. Most […]

  Originally published in Forbes To be a business is to constantly work toward improved operations. As a business grows, this usually leads to the possibility of using predictive AI, which is the kind of analytics that improves existing, large-scale operations. But the mystique of predictive AI routinely kills its value. Rather than focusing on the concrete […]

  Originally published in Forbes The hype term “agentic AI” is the latest trending buzzword to repackage pie in the sky AI ambitions, but it does not allude to any particular advancement that might achieve them. It amplifies the overpromising narrative that we’re rapidly headed toward a great leap in autonomy – most extraordinarily, toward the […]

  Originally published in Forbes So much potential. Predictive AI often delivers more value than its heavily publicized sister, generative AI. It’s the technology you turn to for improving your largest-scale operations. Its value proposition is straightforward and it has accumulated a decades-long track record of proven deployments. But to date, predictive AI has achieved only […]