Harnessing the 'irrational exhuberance' around AI - CNCF's Priyanka Sharma

CNCF chief on meeting the sky high expecations of genAI

John Leonard
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Harnessing AI's 'irrational exhuberance' - CNCF's Priyanka Sharma. Image source: CNCF
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Harnessing AI's 'irrational exhuberance' - CNCF's Priyanka Sharma. Image source: CNCF

In her opening keynote at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe in Paris, Priyanka Sharma, executive director of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), spoke of AI being in an "irrational exhuberance" phase, meaning that expectations are moving well ahead of delivery.

Which is not to say that irrational exuberance, a term associated with stock market bubbles, will necessarily lead to a crash; in fact most rapidly growing technologies go through similar phase. Bu...

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