How to Tell What's Real in AI

Lately a lot of my time is spent in two rooms that don&rsquo;t describe AI the same way. In one, I&rsquo;m building the thing: training models, running evaluations, digging through a production system when the verdicts come back wrong. In the other, I&rsquo;m across the table from people who have to make the call on AI they can&rsquo;t build themselves, what to buy, what to trust, what to bet real…