Jack Cardin takes on hosting duties while the team explores the emerging role of Director of Applied AI with Jenna, who explains how this position bridges technological capabilities with practical business applications.
• Applied AI focuses on making AI actually impactful rather than theoretical
• The role combines internal team enablement with client-facing problem solving
• Effective AI implementation requires prioritizing use cases by business impact and effort required
• Systems thinking is crucial to ensure AI solutions don't create more problems than they solve
• Simulations allow businesses to test marketing campaigns and workflows before implementation
• GPT-5 Codex can maintain reasoning for seven hours on complex coding tasks
• Knowledge graphs may become essential for businesses wanting to appear in AI search results
• Google's research on "AI money" explores frameworks for agent-to-agent transactions
• Privacy concerns increase as AR technologies like Meta's glasses become more sophisticated
• The future may include AI agents with financial capabilities acting on behalf of humans
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