Are AI certifications worth the investment?

Artificial intelligence has moved from the research lab into the boardroom, the data center and virtually every business function in between. Nearly 80 percent of organizations now use AI in at least one core business process, according to McKinsey, yet widespread adoption has surfaced a persistent problem: a deep shortage of professionals who can translate…

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AI has to be dull before it can be sexy

This week in New York, my Oracle team ran workshops for enterprise developers on building retrieval-augmented generation and agentic applications. Interest was so strong that we quickly had to figure out how to double the room’s capacity (much to the fire marshal’s chagrin). Interest in AI was clearly off the charts. But AI fluency was…

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