Olds: Early Generative AI Hype Did Not Translate into Real Workflow Adoption
Shawn Olds · 22 - From Nonprofit AI to BoodleBox with Founder Shawn Olds · Feb 6, 2025 · at 2:14
Shawn Olds, co-founder and COO of Boodle.ai, discusses why Boodle pivoted from its initial AI tool to develop BoodleBox in 2023.
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“And what we ran headlong into was that in spite of all of the talk and hype around gender to the eye, people were just not adopting it. No doubt hundreds of millions of people logged into chat GPT or clot or something and created a, say a haiku about their bowling team, but then they really did nothing else with it.”
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