From the gilded age to the silicon age - how industrial AI redefines competitive advantage

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I often wonder how the AI conversation can meaningfully progress in the corporate and industrial world when so much of the public discourse centers on such a narrow slice of the story. AI tools like Claude, ChatGPT and Copilot have captured the imagination, and it's easy to see why. But this narrow focus concerns me, and not only because it crowds out the broader conversation. The tools dominating the headlines still struggle to meet the reliability and trust thresholds that enterprise and industrial contexts demand. AI that drafts your emails is one thing — AI that manages a production line or dispatches a field engineer is quite another.

AI's real potential risks being overlooked if we don't widen the debate to include all forms of AI. Particularly those already quietly transforming the industrial world, making our daily lives run more smoothly without us ever pausing to think about it —...

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