Keynote Address: AI Eats the World

The speaker discusses the cyclical nature of technology platforms, highlighting mainframes, PCs, the web, and smartphones, leading to the current shift towards generative AI. Each platform follows an S-curve, starting as a niche product before becoming mainstream and eventually mature. The speaker emphasizes that new platforms drive innovation, investment, and company creation, often disrupting existing industries. The discussion covers the current AI landscape, characterized by significant investment, numerous models, and a race for differentiation, while also addressing the challenges of deploying AI effectively and integrating it into existing business processes, and concludes by noting that AI, like previous technologies, will eventually become commonplace.