As AI heavyweights boast big advances for 2025, CIOs advise their peers to focus on the practicalities of business-aligned use cases that augment rather than replace human work.
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The gulf between AI innovation and enterprise use of the technology is widening but that should not impact the trajectory of CIOs’ enterprise AI strategies today, observers say.
OpenAI has proclaimed that human-like reasoning capabilities with secure guardrails are available in its o3 preview model and hinted that “superintelligence” is on its way. At the recent Reuters Next conference, Google also promised artificial general intelligence (AGI) capabilities will be available in the near term
Prominent AI figures such as Geoffrey Hinton and OpenAI co-founder Elon Musk have maintained that AGI — an AI entity that can reason and behave like a human being — could be dangerous without legal guidelines and powerful watchdogs in place. (Musk left OpenAI and later founded xAI, whose Grok platform competes against OpenAI ChatGPT).
Still, despite …