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Marc Benioff warns that AI, while useful, is overhyped and partly blames Microsoft


One of the tech industry’s biggest hype men, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, is psyched about AI, but points out that it hasn't cured cancer.

Earlier this summer he postulated that with AI-enhanced health tech, “Maybe a future version will help discover cures for cancer,” Altman said at the Aspen Ideas Festival, reported Newsweek. Forrester found that Copilot led to a tiny uptick in revenue, while reducing operating costs and speeding new-hire onboarding, based on a survey of 266 small companies. Just a few examples include OutRival,Atlassian’s Rovo AI, and Sierra, the startup founded by former Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor and Google vet Clay Bavor.

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