Q so people just selling more stuff, and you know. Um, so where, where do you all stand on AI generally. Like, if you look at the surge of interest across society and across a wide range of business sectors, and then in energy specifically, like, where do you think we are in this adoption curve? Uh, what do you think, David? Like, where are we right now with AI generally?
A It's a great question, and it can be hard to get a temperature check. I think, though, there's two ways to look at How AI is impacting society and, and the world of business. First, there's the enterprise impacts, which are pretty common across industries, right? So these are impacts to supply chain, procurement, HR, finance, legal, and we're seeing solutions that adopt well in one industry scale pretty cross, pretty well across all industries. And, and that's, that's in flight and, you know, using generative AI for enterprise, um, transformation and re-envisaging, um, how a company's managed is, Is well under play. I think the, the second piece is a look at the industry specific transformation that's going on. And from, I mean, there's been a lot of ink spins on this, right? If you look at, um, perhaps, you know, computer science or gaming or entertainment, you could have a completely new products, new services, new ways to market. I think higher in that spectrum in terms of impact are professional services, management consultants, maybe automated, um, legal services. Um, so you, you can see, you know, the impact is on regulation-heavy, document-heavy, analysis-type work. Where it gets more interesting, and which is why energy and utilities is interesting, is when you're further down the spectrum, you're looking at life sciences or healthcare, or heavily regulated in industrie…
AI assessment note: “each sector is on its own transformational journey, but each sector is being transformed”