Question 1

How should businesses prepare for AGI, and what comes after chatbots and agents?

Accepted Answer

_The practical move is to avoid overcommitting and to build toward agents with persistent memory rather than one-shot chatbots._

> The right answer is not to overcommit to any particular technology at a particular moment, because if the singularity idea is at all real, we're all going to have to pivot and re-pivot. What's coming is agents with persistent memory that reason on that memory and build their own world model as they go. An agent that remembers everything it ever did feels less like a query loop and more like a personal assistant you actually have a relationship with.

Source: [Rethinking the AGI Race, with Benjamin Goertzel (eCornell Keynote)](https://ecornell.cornell.edu/keynotes/view/K052826/)

Question 2

How should executives decide where to apply AI?

Accepted Answer

_Start with the problem, not the tool, and the right use of AI emerges on its own._

> You don't start with the tool, you start with the problem, and then it naturally emerges which tools are best to use. If you want a house, you start with wanting the house, then find the materials and skilled people. You don't start with a screwdriver and ask what you could build with it. AI is like suddenly having a bazooka in your toolbox: it's incredibly powerful, but you still need to aim it and know exactly what to do with it.

Source: [Tomorrow's Medicine, with Cyriac Roeding (eCornell Keynote)](https://ecornell.cornell.edu/keynotes/view/K052126/)

Q&A, strategy

How should businesses prepare for AGI, and what comes after chatbots and agents?

How should executives decide where to apply AI?