What would an AI-First CIO do?

In the 2010s, many CIOs adopted a Cloud-First strategy for building their digital services and skills. So how would a CIO build an AI-First strategy in today’s world?
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WHAT CONSIDERATIONS SHOULD GO INTO AN AI-FIRST STRATEGY
• 3-month, 6-month, 12-month projects
• What are the AI possibilities?
• AI Center of Sharing Experiences
• Base Models vs. Trained/Aligned Models
• Augment vs. Replacement (or AI Beginning) activities
• Vendor offering vs. Open Source evolution
• Cost Modeling and Cost Monitoring
• The Ecosystem (of the large LLMs) is questionable - will they be viable in 1-2yrs?
• Security policies - how broad, how strict, how to evaluate?
• Data scientists vs. non data scientists?
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