Rushing into genAI? Prepare for budget blowouts and broken promises

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Rushing into genAI? Prepare for budget blowouts and broken promises Siobhan Kwiecien, director of HR Process Enablement at pharma and biotech company Thermo Fisher Scientific, has spent the past year working to embed generative AI (genAI) into her company's internal chatbots. "And that's been quite a road," she said. The consumption and pricing models for the technology were "all over the place," and promises of "robust" AI solutions fell short, she said. Read more 14 mins

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