AI clearly heading into the Trough of Disillusionment! (per Gartner's Hype Cycle)

This is a major warning flag for all Frontier LLM Vendors. Clients are now beginning to assess less expensive and open alternatives - can you say DeepSeek! https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/openai-ceo-sam-altman-admits-ai-token-costs-are-becoming-a-huge-issue-company-seeks-improved-value-as-overspending-becomes-a-meme

"Chinese models are 10x to 30x cheaper than U.S. models. We’re already seeing evidence of this: Chinese models went from about 1% of developer usage in 2024 to more than 60% in May, and 80% of U.S. AI startups are now using Chinese open-source AI models." https://www.profgmedia.com/p/is-ai-more-expensive-than-the-employees #AI #AIAdoption #OpenAI #Altman #AITokens #DeepSeek #AIInvestment #AIBuildout #LLMs #Capital #Investment #StartUps #FrontierModels #ProfGMedia #Budgets #Gartner #HypeCycle

Canada's AI Strategy Signals a Shift from Research Leadership to Adoption Leadership https://tinyurl.com/59j2pxee

#ai #ArtificialIntelligence #Canada #AIpolicy #TechnologyPolicy #DigitalInfrastructure #AIAdoption #AISovereignty #Innovation #EconomicDevelopment #Productivity #AIResearch

“Given the jagged frontier of #AIability, the complexities of #AIadoption, and the limitations of AI, I believe there is still a lot of room for humans to not just use AI, but to use AI to thrive. So, I decided to write a new book: #CoExistence, about how to work with AI that is sometimes, but not always, better than you.

The first question you might ask is how did I work with AI as I wrote this #book? I think the results are pretty indicative of the state of AI today. Sometimes I used AI a lot, sometimes very little, and sometimes I had to let the AI do what it wanted.”
#EthanMollick
https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/co-existence-and-the-end-of-co-intelligence

Microsoft Warns AI Adoption Exposes Organizations to New Malware Threats

Microsoft's senior security researcher warns that the AI tools making our jobs easier can also be exploited by threat actors, highlighting a new and urgent risk for organizations to manage. As AI adoption grows, companies must recognize it as both a valuable asset and a potential attack surface that requires careful…

https://osintsights.com/microsoft-warns-ai-adoption-exposes-organizations-to-new-malware-threats?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

#AiAdoption #EmergingThreats #MalwareOperations #SocialEngineering #Microsoft

Your GenAI Demo Worked. Your Business Did Not Change. Here’s Why.

#TycoonWorld #EnterpriseAI #GenerativeAI #GenAI #ArtificialIntelligence #DigitalTransformation #BusinessTransformation #AIAdoption #AIInnovation #EnterpriseTechnology #AIConsulting #DataStrategy #DataGovernance #DecisionIntelligence #BusinessIntelligence #KnowledgeManagement #RAG #KAG #CloudModernization
https://tycoonworld.in/your-genai-demo-worked-your-business-did-not-change-heres-why/

Sarah Wimberley presents 'Facing the Future: Three Ways to Proactively Manage Change' this July at Nebraska.Code().

https://nebraskacode.amegala.com/

#ChangeManagement #AIAdoption #ProactiveManagement #DevOps #WomenInTech #WomenInSTEM #WomenWhoCode #TechConference #DevCommunity #DevConference #SiliconPrairie #HeartlandDev #AI

Enterprises Lose Visibility as AI Adoption Surges

As AI adoption surges in ANZ enterprises, a concerning gap is emerging: over half of organizations lack confidence in their ability to monitor and govern these new technologies, leaving them vulnerable to an expanding attack surface. AI agents and copilots are rolling out faster than security teams can keep up, creating a visibility blind spot…

https://osintsights.com/enterprises-lose-visibility-as-ai-adoption-surges?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

#AiAdoption #EmergingThreats #Anz #EnterpriseAi #ArtificialIntelligence

AI Adoption Exposes Identity Security Blind Spots

As organizations rapidly adopt AI, they're unwittingly creating a surge in non-human identities - like AI agents and machine identities - that are outpacing their ability to manage and secure them, leaving them vulnerable to new security risks. This blind spot is exposing companies to excessive privileges, unmanaged access, and orphaned…

https://osintsights.com/ai-adoption-exposes-identity-security-blind-spots?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

#AiAdoption #IdentitySecurity #NonhumanIdentities #CloudSecurity #EmergingThreats

We rolled out #Copilot Premium across the org just over 6 weeks ago. The adoption curve has been *much* faster than I expected. More than half the organization is already using it multiple times a week, every week.

The next question is how to weave in "human signals". The narrative that usage = value is one that orgs our size are all defaulting to. What are people actually doing with it? Does it feel like it's making their work better?

I'd love to hear from anyone who's cracked this. The dashboards are clean. The stories are harder.

#NonprofitTech #aiAdoption #Copilot #DigitalTransformation #ai #NFP