It's tough sledding doing AI research in a large organization

#ArtificialIntelligence is both very mature and very immature from a megacorporate perspective.

You may have seen discussion elsewhere of The Wall Street Journal's coverage regarding Amazon's internal #AI team and its struggles. Google, despite its once dominant position, has often seemed a step behind OpenAI and OpenAI in turn may have done its best work when it was a small not-for-profit research lab...

It's difficult to do these things well in a large, private-sector organization and in this video I explore a variety of reasons why including fundamental cultural requirements around anything resembling basic research as well as the burden coming from megacorporate guardrails in areas like #DataPrivacy.