Maybe some devs here can help me, I was recently promoted to “head of AI” at my work despite being very outwardly ambivalent towards it. So I’m struggling to figure out what would actually create value instead of just being an expensive waste of time but still satisfy the higher ups AI lust.
My first idea that I thought would actually be useful was just setting up the architecture for an actual analytics database for us and then let them explore it with metabase (then letting them use Claude for their wow factor of exploring it with AI or whatever).
But now I’m somewhat at a loss, so any insight you all have would be really helpful!
We don’t even know what your company does? Does it do development? Data analysis?
Without knowing that, as head of AI, I’d first take training to understand what AI is and get advice from an external company as to what it could be good for. “AI” is being used as an umbrella term nowadays for neural networks to stochastic machines and they all have different uses. Understanding valid and invalid usecases is important before deciding when and where to use it in the company.