May 10, 2025

✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-05-09

This week, I explored how specific AI applications outperform generic ones significantly.

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🤖 + 🔮 The story that caught my eye this week was actually the same AI success story through two different lenses.

Lens 1: Generic application of AI results in 25% success.

Techmeme: IBM survey of 2,000 CEOs from 33 countries: 25% of AI initiatives have delivered the expected ROI over the past few years, and 16% have scaled enterprise wide (Tobias Mann/The Register)

By Tobias Mann / The Register. View the full context on Techmeme.

Lens 2: Specific application of AI results in 70% better outcome.

Techmeme: How The Ottawa Hospital cut clinician burnout by 70% using Microsoft's DAX Copilot, which captures physician-patient conversations and generates clinical notes (Taryn Plumb/VentureBeat)

By Taryn Plumb / VentureBeat. View the full context on Techmeme.

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