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Why most organizations aren’t ready to deploy AI

In September, we re-ran our AI Proficiency Survey to over 5,000 knowledge workers across the US, UK, and Canada. Our biggest takeaway: The knowledge workforce is vastly unprepared for an AI-augmented future.

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AI Proficiency Survey
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How the Royal Family’s AI-powered mental health agent overcame privacy concerns

Most orgs feel unready for the challenges that Gen AI brings to risk management. Yet many AI applications will have to navigate the line between user value and user privacy. So we sat down with specialist, Brian Kolodny, to understand how he traversed matters of privacy when building a mental health bot for the Royal Family’s foundation.

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Agents
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Our Guide to Building Enterprise AI Applications

Every company needs to be thinking about where AI slots into their product or service, but all the noise and hype makes it hard to determine what a valuable vs. novel use case looks like. Machine & Partners’ Ed Ortega is sharing 2 frameworks to narrow down your laundry list of AI ideas.

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Enterprise Apps
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How we used AI to improve course quality by 20%

One common misperception about AI is that it’s only good for making processes quicker. Education Product Lead, Kyra Atekwana, shared how it also improved our content quality by 20%.

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Custom GPT
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How a Bayer CFO is thinking about AI ROI

Your CFO will want to see your plan for proving ROI before they greenlight your AI initiatives. But what we learned from Bayer CFO, Florian Zirnstein, is that not all CFOs need to see hard numbers to measure success.

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ROI
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Benchmarking Section’s AI Proficiency

We've talked a lot about the AI proficiency of the broader workforce - but is Section even walking the walk? We ran our own AI Proficiency Survey internally - here's how we did it, what we learned, and how we're measuring ROI.

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AI Proficiency
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The best open-source AI chatbots in April 2024

While big players like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google have been stealing the spotlight, a crew of underdogs have been working on models to give them a run for their money. But how do they stack up?

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Chatbots
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The VC perspective on successful AI startups

You might have a cool idea for an AI startup, but is it venture backable? General Catalyst's Christopher Kauffman will tell you.

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Venture Capital
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We introduced our first AI avatar professor. Here’s why.

Earlier this month, we wrapped our very first AI avatar-led course. Here's the nitty-gritty calculus behind our decision to try avatars as instructors.

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Meet your professor: Apple’s Amit Rawal from AI for Data Analysis

We sat down with Apple’s Amit Rawal to ask him all the things you should know before you take his course – including a sneak peek into his data analysis framework.

AI for Data Analysis
Meet your professor
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5 roles AI can play to make you more strategic

Roleplay these scenarios with AI to make yourself a more strategic decision maker, presenter, collaborator, and leader.

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Roleplaying AI
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OpenAI’s product manager shares 4 ways PMs can use AI to get promoted

OpenAI product lead Britt Jamison says AI isn't devaluing product managers. In fact, he says it's quite the opposite.

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Product Manager
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Pay your champions!

Most champions programs fizzle out because you're asking people to do real work and giving them nothing for it. Pay them, promote them, and they'll actually drive your transformation forward.

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The chasm is already visible

The competitive distance between companies experimenting seriously with agents and those that aren't is already further than you think, and it's widening every week.

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Notes from the field on AI transformation

If you're leading AI transformation, the highest-leverage investment you can make right now is activating your managers.

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The AI Conversation Is Growing Up

The AI conversation is growing up. And the companies pulling ahead are the ones who are moving fast from experimentation to system change.

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Your employees are losing their minds to AI

AI dependence is already degrading cognitive capability in the workforce – and AI upskilling for employees needs to go beyond tools to protect the thinking that makes their work valuable.

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What makes an AI ambassador program actually stick

Agital, a digital marketing agency, built an AI ambassador program that actually works because they got specific where most programs stay vague - on selection, accountability, and goal-setting.

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