Article for SiliconANGLE by Jason Bloomberg
Attending the World Summit AI conference in Amsterdam this week gave me a strong sense of déjà vu, harkening back to the InternetWorld conferences of the late 1990s.
As with those events, World Summit AI displayed a schizophrenic combination of business solutions and technology offerings, as though people couldn’t make up their mind what they wanted from an AI-centric conference.
The schizophrenia didn’t end there. While the buzz was predictably centered on generative AI, there was plenty of talk about machine learning, computer vision,and other flavors of the technology.
For its part, the gen AI conversation was solidly in its “anti-hype hype” phase. Cheerleading for gen AI is now oh-so-2023. At this conference, the focus was on putting on the brakes.
How do we make AI serve people, not the other way around? What about security and compliance? Is gen AI good for more than slapping conversational interfaces on last year’s technology? And when will we ever come to our senses about gen AI’s flagrant consumption of natural resources?
Plenty of questions, to be sure, but the answers boiled down to educated (and sometimes, not-so-educated) guesswork.
Nevertheless, despite all this turbulence, I was able to uncover some moments of calm – vendors with innovative, occasionally disruptive offerings.
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