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United Airlines sets its flight plan for gen AI success

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CIO Jason Birnbaum has ambitious plans for generative AI at United Airlines. With the core architectural backbone of the airlines gen AI roadmap in place, including United Data Hub and an AI and ML platform dubbed Mars, Birnbaum has released a handful of models into production use for employees and customers alike.

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CIOs contend with gen AI growing pains

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MIT event, moderated by Lan Guan, CAIO at Accenture Accenture “98% of business leaders say they want to adopt AI, right, but a lot of them just don’t know how to do it,” claimed Guan, who is currently working with a large airliner in Saudi Arabia, a large pharmaceutical company, and a high-tech company to implement generative AI blueprints in-house.

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American Airlines takes flight with analytics transformation

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In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, airlines have struggled with bad weather, fewer air traffic controllers, and a shortage of pilots, all leading to an unprecedented number of cancelations in 2022. Leibman notes that American Airlines operates every hour of every day. American Airlines. “We Leibman, who stepped down on Sept.

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United Airlines gives employees the digital tools to make customers happy

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As CIO of United Airlines, Jason Birnbaum is laser focused on using technology and data to enable the company’s 86,000 employees to create as seamless a customer travel experience as possible. That was our story, and we worked very diligently to change the narrative.”

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10 emerging innovations that could redefine IT

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The pace of innovation is relentless. The next generation promises to deliver the same unstoppable parade of innovation. A number of high-profile software failures at companies like Southwest Airlines or EasyJet show how code that runs well most of the time can also fail spectacularly.

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5 tips for better business value from gen AI

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What success looks like can vary widely and range from reducing a call centers escalation rates, a food distributors sales order processing time, or a professional services companys new employee onboarding time, to an airline that personalizes customer communications or a media company that provides real-time language translation.

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Riyadh Air and IBM forge AI-Driven partnership to revolutionize aviation

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In a groundbreaking move, Riyadh Air has announced a strategic partnership with IBM to integrate AI across its operations, aiming to establish itself as the worlds first digital-native airline. This partnership reflects its commitment to innovation and customer experience.

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