Why Are AI Strategies A Lot Like Teenage Sex? (Safe for Work!)

This is an old-stage favorite of mine – I used it for years in the context of e-commerce, sustainability, autonomous vehicles, and other topics.

And given everything that is going on with AI – and all the companies trying to figure out their AI business strategies – it’s time for the list of Why Are AI Strategies A Lot like Teenage Sex!

(It’s safe for work!)

• no one is sure what it is, but they hear that it’s great!
• everyone thinks that everyone else is doing it!
• those who say they are doing it are probably lying!
• the few who are doing it aren’t doing it very well!
• everyone hopes it will be great when they finally do it!
• once they start doing it, they’ll discover that it is going to take a while to figure out how to get really good at it!
• and they’ll realize that they’ll have to try to discover a whole bunch of new methods of doing it to really figure it all out!

Here’s a version of the theme from years ago when I launched it into a Volvo leadership meeting – the CEO was in the room, and was kind of freaked out when I began. He later admitted he found it hilarious!