AI takes time to get right

Eoin Hinchy, cofounder and CEO of workflow automation company Tines, said his team had 70 failures with an AI initiative they were working on over the course of a year before finally landing on a successful iteration.

As Jim Collins says, bullets then cannonballs. ‘AI’ covers so many types of solutions that to say you’re doing ‘AI’ is a lot like ‘we have a website’ in the late 90s. Congratulations on recognizing that the internet/ai is transformative. But deploying solutions will take time and effort. There are still no silver bullets.

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