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“How are you using AI?” I asked a class full of executives. Some of the answers I have heard before: health professionals using it to read medical images; managers using it to draft emails; a retail company using it to take notes in meetings before giving up on it when they realized that the AI confabulated and had no understanding of context. And then, a gem. There’s almost always a gem.
“I use chatbots as fortune tellers,” said a middle-aged Asian woman with a beige cardigan and white sneakers. I would later learn that she has built a billion-dollar empire. A nervous rustle spreads throughout the room as
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