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Little bit of a rant today about how not using GenAI will lead most companies to fail. But it got me thinking — how many companies are actually allowing their employees to use Generative AI?

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We’re kinda tired of sugar coating this. 

If your company is (still!?) banning GenAI, you’ll fail. 

We've been hearing too many stories lately about companies who are still actively keeping employees from using Generative AI. 

Because it's #HotTakeTuesday we'll keep it short: those companies will fail. 

Whether it's tomorrow, in 3 months or 5 years -- banning Generative AI is setting the table for three inevitable scenarios. 

• 1. Your company will lose its place in the competitive landscape. 

• 2. Your company will get acquired by a competitor who IS using Generative AI.

• 3. Your company will go out of business.

Sorry shorties. There's legit no other option. 

We tackled this cold, hard reality on today’s show. And for some reason, SO many companies are still shying away from GenAI.

This recent study from Cisco about Generative AI use is pretty eye opening. It found that 27% of companies are banning Generative AI.

TBH, that kinda result has us fed up. 

Why?

And after talking with hundreds of global AI experts, seeing the future of AI at the recent NVIDIA conference, and training thousands of business leaders on GenAI, we feel we’re in a unique position to set the record straight. 

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Ripping the band-aid off in 3, 2, 1 …. 

We took a quick trip down the technology memory lane today.

The biz history books are full of examples of companies that failed to adopt to changing times and new tech: 

• Blockbuster went from an industry leader to bankrupt because it didn’t adapt to internet streaming. 

• Netflix did, and it’s one of the largest companies in the U.S.

• Blackberry dominated the smartphone market, but failed to lean in to new touchscreen tech and its phone division is now defunct. 

• Apple did, and now the iPhone is synonymous with the word phone. 

• Sears was the biggest American retailer doing $40 billion in revenue, but fought off online shopping and filed for bankruptcy years later. 

• Amazon embraced online shopping and is a $2 trillion company. 

Fight off Generative AI at your own peril y’all. 

Try this: Confused on how to implement Generative AI or actual use-cases for the tech? 

We’ve covered it in-depth. Straight facts. No B.S. 

Common misconception — AI is just hype.

Even looking at the examples above, certain technologies throughout human history are often placed on a hype cycle.

Sometimes, they die off and never take off. (Still looking at you, Metaverse.)

Other times…. new technologies completely change the way we all work. Like when Brian commented on today’s show that he remembers having to beg to use the internet at work.

In other words, so many business leaders think that Generative AI is all hype. Like, it’ll go away if they just ignore it long enough.

Not the case.

Try this:
We’ve already debunked this one left and right. So if you or someone in your org thinks you can keep ignoring GenAI implementation because it’s all some hype that’ll fade, you gotta listen/watch/read this one.

Or, if you’re a decision-maker or CEO leading an organization, Jim Kavanaugh (the CEO of business behemoth World Wide Technologies) shared his team’s Generative AI blueprint here.

Stick with us here. It’ll make sense either now, or after your first few thousand hours using GenAI. 

Replace the words “Generative AI” and/or “Large Language Models” and/or “ChatGPT” with the word “Internet.”

• Does the internet help your company grow? 

• Is the internet essential to how you do business? 

• Should your employees consume information from the internet? 

• Would your company ban the internet? 

• How would you research that pitch without the internet? 

• How would you read that new industry white paper without the internet? 

(Those are all obvi rhetorical questions.) 

Now, put the words LLM or ChatGPT in place of the internet. 

Seems kinda silly now to ban GenAI, right? 

Also, the Internet is changing. Google, Microsoft, Amazon and other search giants are turning traditional internet usage generative. 

Still wanna stick with that Generative AI ban?

Good luck searching the internet in a year or three when literally the entire internet is generative.

(How’s that GenAI ban gonna work then, bucko?)

Lines are blurring. You don’t want to be the one company still on the outside looking in, do you?

Try this: To be honest, learning the basics of GenAI and Large Language Models are a basic workplace skill that hardly no one is teaching. 

Luckily, we do it. 

For free. 

Live. 

Multiple times a month.

We’ve taught thousands of business leaders the basics of GenAI and prompt engineering in our Prime, Prompt, Polish class. (Freshly with a V2.0 refresh as of 15 hours ago!) 

We’ve got live trainings still this week and later in April. Go sign up.