Fastcompany iconFastcompanySep 21, 2026 ~1 min source read

Is your company’s AI getting smarter every day? It should be

Imagine working with someone who was completely unable to learn, to gain any experience whatsoever. There's no need to picture someone completely stupid: just think of someone who joins the company, starts to deal with a lot of customers, experiences successes and failures, attends meetings, makes decisions.

Is your company’s AI getting smarter every day? It should be

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Imagine working with someone who was completely unable to learn, to gain any experience whatsoever.

There's no need to picture someone completely stupid: just think of someone who joins the company, starts to deal with a lot of customers, experiences successes and failures, attends meetings, makes decisions.

Surprisingly, that's exactly what happens with much of the corporate AI that is being deployed and implemented these days.

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Imagine working with someone who was completely unable to learn, to gain any experience whatsoever. There's no need to picture someone completely stupid: just think of someone who joins the company, starts to deal with a lot of customers, experiences successes and failures, attends meetings, makes decisions. Surprisingly, that's exactly what happens with much of the corporate AI that is being deployed and implemented these days.

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  • Obviously, I'm not saying that an AI system cannot change after deployment: we all know it can, we have experienced that even in our own interactions with chatbots.
  • Systems can accumulate memory, retrieve previous interactions, be updated, fine-tuned or have their surrounding logic modified.
  • A system can accumulate information without becoming better at deciding what to do next.

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but one year later, has the same skills and capabilities as on day one. Would you be able to call that person experienced?

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