Is the AI revolution coming to transport? Of course it is. Even if we don’t bring it, customers will.
Which means Sarah Schlobohm may have one of the hardest jobs in the world.
Rail is a notoriously change-resistant sector. It’s risk-averse, highly political and heavily unionised.
Yet it is also full of opportunities for AI to improve user experience: if they can be realised.
Sarah Schlobohm is the Director of the AI Accelerator Incubator at GBRX, the rail industry’s strategic innovation body.
In today’s episode, Sarah explains what GBRX is and what the incubator and the accelerator each do.
We explore whether AI really is a black box, the trap of fake AI, AI as a problem looking for a solution and whether we should avoid AI entirely.
I also share the story of the time I told an investor we used AI when we didn’t…
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