Cutting Through the AI Hype
Ash Goel heads up a data engineering team at BNY. He spends a lot of time across the data ecosystem and its events, which gives him a grounded read on where the hype is regarding AI.
In this conversation
- →Why he’s a self-described “doomer” on the IBM acquisition of Confluent
- →Whether Kafka is really the backbone of AI yet
- →Why "we want to do AI" is a starting point, not a strategy
- →Starting from the problem instead of the buzzword
- →Convergence on open formats like Iceberg as the real enabler
"They say, we want to do AI. And I say, tell me what you want to do. Then we can see how to fix it."
Interview highlight
"We want to do AI" is not a strategy
Every platform claims to be the place to do AI. Ash's response is to ask what you actually want to do first, and work back from there.