# Building AI on CXOTalk; cutting through AI hype, “applied AI” to enterprise - boldstart ventures

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Ideas · 2017-03-12

# Building AI on CXOTalk; cutting through AI hype, “applied AI” to enterprise

I had a great time participating on [CXOTalk](http://cxotalk.com/) by Michael Krigsman with boldstart portfolio co founders, Sean Chou from [Catalytic](http://catalytic.com/) and Keith Brisson from [Init.ai](http://init.ai/) last Friday, March 10.

When you get down to it, AI is going to be huge in the enterprise, but you need to make sure to focus on solving real business problems. Watch to learn more on our discussion about “applied AI.”

Some nuggets of wisdom:

- Companies are removing [#data](https://twitter.com/search?q=%23data) silos. This will enhance usage of applied [#AI](https://twitter.com/search?q=%23AI) — *[@keithbrisson](https://twitter.com/keithbrisson/) [@edsim](https://twitter.com/edsim/) on [#cxotalk](https://twitter.com/search?q=%23CxOTalk)*
- There’s lots of hard work to make [#AI](https://twitter.com/search?q=%23AI) easy for the user — *[@sychou](https://twitter.com/sychou/) [@wearecatalytic](https://twitter.com/wearecatalytic/) on [#cxotalk](https://twitter.com/search?q=%23CxOTalk)*
- Great [#AI](https://twitter.com/search?q=%23AI) is invisible to user — *[@sychou](https://twitter.com/sychou/) [@keithbrisson](https://twitter.com/keithbrisson/) [@edsim](https://twitter.com/edsim/) [#cxotalk](https://twitter.com/search?q=%23CxOTalk)*
- AI is like water. Every company will have it eventually. I like to talk about “applied AI.” What problem does it solve? — *[@edsim](https://twitter.com/edsim/) [#cxotalk](https://twitter.com/search?q=%23CxOTalk)*

*Originally published on [Medium](https://medium.com/boldstart-ventures/building-ai-on-cxotalk-cutting-through-ai-hype-applied-ai-to-enterprise-e1969baafc20).*

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