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AI costs are rising and returns are unclear, so what should businesses actually do right now?
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In this episode
- Why big companies are pulling back on AI tools despite heavy investment
- How unsupervised AI use inside companies creates real business risk
- What the drop in AI stocks signals about the industry's near future
- Why AI literacy is becoming a baseline skill for employees
Topics in this episode
- ai costs and roi
- ai business impact
- ai literacy
- ai stocks
About this episode
This week on Code x Connor, Connor Deeks and Dorian Smiley discuss the growing challenges around AI, whether companies are getting enough value from it and the rising costs of building and running AI systems. With more money being spent on AI, are the benefits worth the risks and costs? They discuss AI’s impact on business, rising costs, political pushback, the recent drop in AI stocks, and why AI literacy is becoming more important.
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In this episode, we discuss:
→ Why Goldman Sachs is limiting the use of AI tools by traders and bankers
→ The risks of employees using AI to build software without enough oversight
→ Why making employees more productive doesn’t always lead to better business value
→ How restrictions on AI could slow the growth of AI companies
→ Why companies may rethink AI investments
→ Why some communities are against new data centers
→ How concerns about AI taking jobs are creating political backlash
→ Limited data center space could make AI more expensive
→ The recent drop of AI stocks and what it could mean for the industry
→ How the timing of reliable AI automation matters for the future of AI
→ Why simply adding AI to an existing software might not cut it
→ New AI products can create opportunities further than large AI models
→ How Google’s use of AI in a Google Search is creating challenges for schools
→ The importance of AI literacy as a skill for future employees
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About Code and Connor
Code & Connor is where Connor Deeks and Dorian Smiley ask the questions most AI podcasts won't. Two founders — one strategist, one engineer — in honest conversations with executives, builders, and practitioners about what's actually happening at the intersection of AI and the enterprise.
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