4. They heard from their golf buddy who heard from his racquetball buddy that this other CTO at this other shop is saving lots of money with AI

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upupupandaway 4 hours ago | parent [-]

I know you're speaking half in jest but the C-suite of my area actually used a tweet by an OpenAI executive as the agenda for an AI brainstorm meeting.

	▲	munk-a 4 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Well that's inspiring. If you're going to follow anyone right now be sure to follow someone from the company that has committed to spending a trillion dollars without ever having a profitable product. Those are the folks who know what good business is!
	▲	SketchySeaBeast 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		It'll never cease to amaze me how many powerful people can't tell advice from advertising.
	▲	steveBK123 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I am at less than half jest here. I have friends who are finance industry CTOs, and they have described it to me in realtime as CEO FOMO they need to manage .. Remember tech is sort of an odd duck in how open people are about things and the amount of cross pollination. Many industries are far more secretive and so whatever people are hearing about competitors AI usage is 4th hand hearsay telephone game. edit: noteworthy someone sent yet another firmwide email about AI today which was just linking to some twitter thread by a VC AI booster thinkbro