I worked at a very successful, global, old school company for over 25 years.

In the #dotcom era I remember this company (who wanted zero to do with the internet) squeezing managers to come up with stories about how much revenue they piped through "E business", so they could tell the share market the same, and hitch up to the #SharePriceBubble, which they were missing out on. The stories were tenuous at best. My global project booked $Billions in orders as "E business" after pushing B2B customers to use an IVR & forecast based ordering.

Apropos nothing, I saw a LinkedIn article the other day by a VP of the same company, spruiking their #AI credentials. Knowing this company and it's cultural system of management control, I can guarantee there is no way they'd let even a private #LLM model run through their data, primarily due to unauthorised data exposure risks.

But hey, got to feed the #AIHype machine and convince the share market they're a growth business.

I worked at a very successful, global, old school company for over 25 years.

In the #dotcom era I remember this company (who wanted zero to do with the internet) squeezing managers to come up with stories about how much revenue they piped through "E business", so they could tell the share market the same, and hitch up to the #SharePriceBubble, which they were missing out on. The stories were tenuous at best. My global project booked $Billions in orders as "E business" after pushing B2B customers to use an IVR & forecast based ordering.

Apropos nothing, I saw a LinkedIn article the other day by a VP of the same company, spruiking their #AI credentials. Knowing this company and it's cultural system of management control, I can guarantee there is no way they'd let even a private #LLM model run through their data, primarily due to unauthorised data exposure risks.

But hey, got to feed the #AIHype machine and convince the share market they're a growth business.