Roger Roberts

Nov 26, 2024 | mckinsey.com | Carlo Giovine |Roger Roberts

AI systems are powerful but often operate like “black boxes,” shrouded in mystery. Here’s how companies can shed some light and drive adoption of AI solutions that users trust and understand. Artificial intelligence has the potential to deliver massive gains in economic productivity  and enable positive social change around the world. So it’s little surprise that the number of companies adopting AI-powered software, tools, and platforms, including generative AI (gen AI), has surged throughout 2024.

Oct 3, 2024 | mckinsey.com | Jessica Moulton |Rob Cain |Roger Roberts

The narrative surrounding generative AI (gen AI), a moon shot, once-in-a-generation innovation, is that it could utterly reinvent how businesses—consumer-packaged-goods (CPG) companies among them—are run. CPG leaders are heeding the call. In a 2024 survey of CPG leaders, 71 percent said they adopted AI in at least one business function of their organizations (up from 42 percent in 2023), while 56 percent said they were regularly using gen AI.

May 9, 2024 | mckinsey.com | Medha Bankhwal |Ankit Bisht |Michael Chui |Roger Roberts

Advances in AI have accelerated dramatically over the past two years, marked by an ability to design, train, and—most important—run AI at a large scale and for many millions of users. AI’s potential impact spans sectors and could deliver positive social change. In fact, AI is already being used to further all 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)—from the goal of eliminating poverty to establishing sustainable cities and communities and providing quality education for all.

Jun 12, 2023 | fal.cn | Michael Chui |Eric Hazan |Roger Roberts |Alex Singla

Generative AI is poised to unleash the next wave of productivity. We take a first look at where business value could accrue and the potential impacts on the workforce. AI has permeated our lives incrementally, through everything from the tech powering our smartphones to autonomous-driving features on cars to the tools retailers use to surprise and delight consumers. As a result, its progress has been almost imperceptible.

May 11, 2023 | shorturl.at | Michael Chui |Roger Roberts |Tanya Rodchenko |Alex Singla

Amid the excitement surrounding generative AI since the release of ChatGPT, Bard, Claude, Midjourney, and other content-creating tools, CEOs are understandably wondering: Is this tech hype, or a game-changing opportunity? And if it is the latter, what is the value to my business? The public-facing version of ChatGPT reached 100 million users in just two months. It democratized AI in a manner not previously seen while becoming by far the fastest-growing app ever.