We’re gearing up for Boston AI Week – The Festival of AI and our own AI meetup on Oct. 7.

I have more things I want to talk about than I have time to either write or talk about.

I need to ask you a question: what do you want to hear about?

There’s A Lot Happening Under the Hood

We have several projects underway in voice and vision.

We’ve trained two new models from the ground up to detect different medical conditions — three if you count the veterinary one. We’re working on several applications using vision-language models to identify and understand things in a scene, as well as a project that creates 3D scenes from photos taken with your phone.

During the meetup, we’ll also be showing an avatar that can see the room and talk to you.

Plus, we're about to launch an AI memory system for multi-user organizational knowledge, so the people and the agents can work together. The system works across LLMs: the agent sees a vector database, while the user gets a wiki-like interface that makes the knowledge visible and auditable. We created it so agents can share knowledge with each other, and with people. 

We’ve also been experimenting with putting memory and inference along with a few other goodies into an AI appliance. 

But Most People Have Different Questions

However...

When I talk to people, I notice that most aren’t trying to orchestrate agents.

They don’t need a memory system for thousands of Markdown files. They aren’t using MCP. 

They aren’t writing skills.

Many tell me they’re still using the free version of ChatGPT, unsure why they should spend $20 a month to upgrade.

And the questions I hear most often aren’t technical at all:

• What should my college student study?

• Is my job safe?

• What should my company — or I — actually be doing about AI?

What Does AI Actually Mean for Your Work?

So I can spend AI Week talking about the technology. There’s plenty to talk about.

But I’m wondering if people would rather have more foundational conversations about what actually works today, what’s coming in the near future, and how to start using it.

Or perhaps the more important conversation is organizational change: how do you actually move an organization into an AI-driven future? Because I increasingly think the problem is much more about people than technology.

What Do You Want to Learn About AI?

I can’t predict the future any better than you can. But one thing I am pretty sure of: AI is going to have a big impact, and the people and organizations that start learning and adopting it early will have an advantage.

What would you most like to learn about AI right now — what works today, what’s coming next, or how to put it to work in your organization? Let me know in the Comments, and if you’re in the Boston Area join us at our headquarters in Waltham on Oct. 7 and we can discuss these topics in person! 

The meetup is free. Registration required.