Grappling with the Bitter Lesson: A Roadmap to Corporate AI Adoption and Strategic Advantage

One of the hardest things in getting enterprise AI strategy to work is letting go of what you do today. "The bitter lesson" is Richard Sutton's name for the realization that the progress of AI makes many highly valued skills of today obsolete. But grappling with the bitter lesson is the forge of effective AI corporate strategy. What do you let go of? And what do you embrace? How do you get your employees to ride the whirlwind of AI rather than trying to race it? How do harness the skills and experience of all your employees - not just your AI superstars - to improve their effectiveness and to transform the products and services that you offer to your customers? I'll lay out a six point roadmap for effective AI adoption and its implications for strategy, a roadmap that has already produced enormous success for those who follow it.