Kunal Chopra
Three-time CEO · Board chairman
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Boring AI
AI for manufacturers, operators, and service businesses — not startups chasing hype.Written by Kunal Chopra — three-time CEO, currently building an AI company for manufacturers.
Issues
- AI takes the hardest jobs firstA dairy farm, a milking robot, and the one cow that stands wrong. Plus what a 50,000-fold fall in the price of light did to the people who sold it.
- The world has a budget for AI questionsResearchers costed it out at roughly 2,200 questions per person per day. A handful of companies already decide whose.
- AI trains faster when it copies a human flawYour brain treats a 1% chance like a 5% chance. So does the expensive way of training a model, and that quirk is what makes it work. Copy it on purpose and the cheap method runs up to six times faster.
- The one dark houseChicago Booth told 2,000 parents that AI use lowers their kids' test scores. They believed it, said it should be banned, and bought it anyway.
- The cookie testFour Chicago Booth experts on supply-chain risk. One bake sale. The same four lessons.
- Why I'm Writing About AI for Boring BusinessesThe biggest AI opportunity isn't in tech
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