By Janus Boye
This famous Thomas Edison quote was on the wall yesterday as we held two group meetings in Edinburgh, Scotland.
At one of the meetings our member Stratos Filalithis, Head of Website & Communication Technologies at the University of Edinburgh shared their progress with making AI useful and usable, including how to improve search and to power virtual assistants.
AI is a regular topic at our group meetings and conferences, including all the confusion and overwhelming hype that comes with it. It makes me happy that during the past months, the conversation seems to have shifted from sheer, almost blind excitement, to using AI to doing things better and actually delivering value.
Getting things done has always been a popular topic. Earlier this week, at a Copenhagen group meeting, Per Beining, also shifted the conversation from getting better at delivering things, to actually making sure that we are doing the right things. This requires good discovery, you might even call it research, coupled with strategic thinking.
Might this be a winning recipe for finding what Thomas Edison was looking for?
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Emma Horrell at the University of Edinburgh has shared more from their progress in these two posts:
Can AI help or hinder search? Trials with Drupal AI-boosted search and AI Assistants
Making AI useful and usable – consolidated learnings from UX research of Drupal AI Assistants
The conversation naturally continues in our group meetings and at our upcoming conferences. Why not join us and be a part of the conversation