Can agentic AI 'cross the chasm' without falling in? Tech thought leader Geoffrey Moore assesses progress in straddling the divide

When you sit down for an overdue catch-up with Geoffrey Moore, author of the seminal 'Crossing The Chasm', still the definitive tome on how products evolve from creation through early adoption to mainstream acceptance in a series of stages, there is one question that you really don’t want to be clichéd enough to ask him - and of course, you always do!

That was me this week when Moore joined me for a chat about AI and the state of that particular nation and I found the words tumbling out of my mouth:

So, has agentic AI 'crossed the chasm'?

Fortunately Moore is well-used to this sort of thing. It’s also not his first rodeo when it comes to AI in its various incarnations over the years. Using the vernacular, predictive AI is well settled on ‘Main Street’, while generative AI is right 'Inside the Tornado’ as we speak ...