Overcoming Challenges of AI Development
I attended the live webinar “Overcoming Challenges of AI Development,” presented by MIT x PRo and CSAIL and featuring Professor Neil Thompson. The main discussion focused on the challenges companies face in successfully deploying AI projects and on how to turn them into tangible business outcomes. Professor Thompson discussed the top three challenges an organization faces when launching AI projects successfully. The topic made me realize how important strategic planning, organizational readiness, and economic factors are in the successful adoption of AI. As an MIS student, I viewed AI not just as a technical tool but also as a business tool to be integrated into business planning and modeling. The webinar also presented the MIT course “Deploying AI for Strategic Impact,” emphasizing the need to align technical requirements with IT to achieve business outcomes.