Tony Bates
6 statements across 1 episodes · 3 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Sep 11, 2026 by Tony Bates · across every show →
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Sep 11, 2026 neutral
Sep 11, 2026 positive
Bates: Companies must onboard and manage AI like human workers
“The way that folks need to think about it inside their businesses is that it's one talent system. It's one set of resources. You have to onboard the AI in the same way you do an information worker. You need to performance manage the AI in the same way you do a…”
Sep 11, 2026 neutral
Bates: Conversational AI interfaces are currently in their MS-DOS moment
“I feel like on the user interface side of where we are we're kind of in our MS-DOS moment right now. We haven't had our Windows moment, and I don't think that it's necessarily going to be a Windows interface, but typing into a chatbot or talking into a chatbot…”
Sep 11, 2026 bullish
Sep 11, 2026 positive
Bates: Companies are already prepared to handle consumer bot swarms
“As you think about in many, many ways, I mean, people have been combating bots that are, you know, coming in and just swarming social media networks just to kind of make sure they get enough click throughs and so on. So I think companies are ready for that, th…”
Sep 11, 2026 neutral
Bates: Personalization requires individual intent understanding, not demographic targeting
“Personalization is not targeting. And that's kind of like in the ad tech world is like, well, we'd create personas. That's not personalization. That's taking a group and treating them the same way. Personalization is understanding Why you want something, and g…”