For any audience, recommended as a keynote presentation.
When ChatGPT arrived on the scene, it sparked an immediate reaction from the world--not just the computing world, but the larger world in which we all live, eat, and breathe--that set the course of the zeitgeist for the next decade. "Revolutionary!" they claimed, even going so far as to promise that "Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is just around the corner!" Some predicted doom--that the rise of AI would mean the fall of humanity. Some predicted economic catastrophe--that now AI would come for all the jobs that used to be "safe" from automation. And some predicted utopia--that the ability of AI to take on jobs that humans had historically done meant humans could now be free to explore all the things they couldn't before.
In this keynote, we're going to tear away the veil of hype, quiet the hysteria, and explore exactly what it is that this round of AI can--and more importantly, can't--do. But, more than that, we'll examine the one cycle that our industry, rain or shine, adheres to like clockwork.
Published on 24 November 2025