1、1AIREPORT#2024CoCon nc ceptuaeptual al art by Bart by Baris Genris Genc ce el l2WELCOME TO THE BEGINNING OF OUR JOURNEY TO CHART THE EVOLUTION OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE,AND UNDERSTAND ITS PLACE IN FASHION IN 2024 AND BEYOND.BY BEN HANSON,EDITOR-IN-CHIEF,THE INTERLINEAs technology hype waves go,ther

2、es only one in recent memory that equals the fervour thats currently swirling around arti昀椁cial intelligence.And thats the dot com rush and the rise of the internet.Whether a direct comparison between AI and the web is accurate or useful is honestly beside the point:as a business you simply need an

3、AI strategy in 2024 the same way you needed a web strategy in the late 1990s.Which is to say that it feels,today,like everyone is demanding an immediate answer from you,to an evolving question where the end state is essentially impossible to predict.Try to think about it like this:without the bene昀椁

4、t of the hindsight we all now have,would you have been able to forecast when,where,and how deeply the 昀氁edgling internet was going to change our personal and professional lives?Would I?Could anyone have really seen,looking at a loose cohort of scrappy startups and scientists,how a synergy of softwar

5、e,hardware,protocol and infrastructure would unlock everything from remote working and streaming media to the gig economy and progressive web applications?With any ill-de昀椁ned question with a short timeline for responding,its extremely di昀cult to tell,in the current moment,whether your developing an

6、swer is heading in the right direction or not.Are you doing the right thing with AI here and now,considering how important it could eventually become?Is anyone?And are they doing it by design or by luck?All the same,just as the word on everyones lips in my late teens was“online,”right now investors,