Field notes from the circus of corporate AI adoption

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The company's C-suite and IT department began embracing AI due to FOMO, leading to the adoption of an enterprise LLM subscription.
A 'Prompt-a-Thon' was organized to discover AI use cases, but it lacked clear goals and resulted in superficial ideas.
The author, with a data science background, critiques corporate AI adoption as performative and lacking substance.
An executive meeting with a hyperscaler featured grand but vague promises about AI's transformative potential.
An AI strategy workshop devolved into a post-it note brainstorm with disjointed and poorly articulated ideas.
The author highlights the gap between AI hype and reality, where thoughtful implementations are overshadowed by spectacle.
Genuine AI use cases, like sentiment detection and automation, are often ignored in favor of flashy but impractical solutions.
The AI circus continues, driven by hype, with little regard for actual value or employee needs.

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