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Robb Wilson

CEO/Founder at OneReach and 2 other companies
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Robb Wilson is the founder, lead designer, and chief technologist behind OneReach.ai, the highest-scoring company in Gartner’s first Critical Capabilities for Enterprise Conversational AI Platforms report and a leader for Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute in Gartner’s inaugural 2022 Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Conversational AI Platforms. Raised under the tutelage of philosopher Marshall McLuhan— who predicted the Internet 30 years before it became reality—Robb has spent more than two decades applying his deep understanding of user-centric design to unlocking hyperautomation. He built UX Magazine into the world’s largest experience design publication while simultaneously creating Effective UI, a full-service UX firm that competed with IDEO and Frog Design.

In addition to launching 15 startups and collecting over 130 awards across the fields of design and technology, Robb has held executive roles at several publicly traded companies and mentored colleagues who went on to leadership roles at Amazon Alexa, Google, Ogilvy, GE, Salesforce, Instagram, LinkedIn, Disney, Microsoft, Mastercard, and Boeing. Robb puts the same passion into building a surfboard and renovating his home that he instills in the start-ups he routinely bootstraps without venture or third-party capital. A trusted thought leader in the realm of conversational AI and hyperautomation, Robb has played a part in creating a wide variety of products, apps, and movies that have touched nearly every person on the planet. Robb is also a humble husband, father, and grandfather, and reading this bio always makes him blush a bit.

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  • Grok 2: A New Era in AI Evolution
    Robb highlights Grok 2's significance, emphasizing its dynamic, self-optimizing nature. Unlike static models, Grok 2 evolves in real-time, adapting to specific use cases. This marks a shift from traditional AI evaluation methods, heralding a future where AI systems continuously improve and make model decisions autonomously.
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  • I reached out to Robb Wilson, founder of OneReach.ai with over two decades’ experience unlocking hyperautomation. The company helps its customers (including Nike, DHL, and Unilever) design and deploy complex conversational applications.

    Over email, Wilson noted how we’re already equipped with the tools and understanding to detect AI-written content ourselves, to a certain degree, and it’s just a matter of reframing what we already know. We can already identify scammers over the phone, which has served us well when picking out malicious actors over the Internet too in many cases. While that leaves some room for error, the same applies to determining what’s genuine content, and what’s not.

  • It goes even further — with the rise of far-reaching AI solutions such as conversational AI, providing “customers and employees access to elevated problem-solving capabilities, the world as we know it will change fundamentally," writes Robb Wilson, founder of OneReach.ai in his latest book, Age of Invisible Machines. Business leaders need to understand that AI cannot succeed in the long run as disconnected, one-off projects. This “requires a holistic undertaking that touches on all aspects of your business. Random acts of technology—like deploying disparate machines that exist in isolation—will underwhelm your workforce and customers, leading to low adoption rates. A fully integrated approach, however, can bring about a totally new paradigm of productivity with unprecedented potential."

  • "The dizzying success is due in part to OpenAI's clever marketing strategy in which it made its research accessible to non-experts," said AI specialist Robb Wilson, founder of OneReach.ai, a software company.

    "Having this technology available to technologists was one thing. Offering it in a chat user interface and allowing non-developers to start playing with it ignited a conversation," he said.

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