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It's interesting that such company culture can achieve pretty amazing things, yet fail at very simple and obvious stuff.

This reminds me of a cool analogy: big companies behave like artifical general intelligence, very smart, but very unlike human intelligence.

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And this, I think is how AI already has, and will gain, traction. Already lots of decision making in large companies is made with the aid of software tools.

The GP’s description sounds much more human ego driven than AI. There’s likely common use of gaslighting and lying in a company where impressions matter more than delivery.

when you say 'gain traction', can you clarify this a little?

Nothing deep, just how it will inch it’s way into our decision processes without us really thinking much of it.

That's a silicon valley term for "get used." They are saying that AI will get used to make corporate decisions. It comes from the startup scene where until your product is being used you're floundering on a frictionless surface.

get traction is definitely not a silicon valley, or product specific phrase.

I think he wanted to know how on earth 'AI' will solve this. People will claim AI can solve anything...

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