AI Hype And SME Business Reality

AI is drawing a lot of attention. At the same time, many, especially in the SME sector, wonder if AI will change anything in their business.

I tried to answer that question during my recent short speech to the local entrepreneur community in Warsaw.

So what is AI? AI enables machines to understand natural speech and use it as well. AI is not just a smart chat we can talk to. It is a technology that allows software to communicate in a human way, even between its own modules!

It has been proven very effective. As a consequence, all the software we know will now have to be rewritten, or it will become obsolete legacy. This means colossal changes are coming, which we cannot avoid if we use IT (and we do).

And who is panicking the most? It is not the SME sector; it is actually the software industry as a whole, because they understand the above.

As AI will change our business whether we want it or not, it is worth developing AI competencies and testing new available features to find its best use in our business.