Sandra O’Connell covers the clever rise of the AI Institute as she interviews Maryrose Lyons in today’s Sunday Times in Ireland.
Twelve months ago Maryrose Lyons launched a new business, the AI Institute. As a digital marketing expert with decades of experience, her decision to go ‘all in’ on generative artificial intelligence was a big one. It paid off.
“We’re looking to hire 20 people next year, in addition to the five we have. There’s just so much work coming in,” Lyons says. With the EU AI Act beginning to come into force in February, organisations are keen to stay on the right side of the regulations. They’re also keen not to lose out to rivals.
“There’s a chasm developing between those who use AI and those who don’t,” says Lyons, part of whose focus will be expanding her company’s service offering to large enterprises.
“We’ve evolved a programme where we go in, look at the different roles they have and break it into tasks. Then we can easily see where we can wrap Al training around it. It’s been amazing. We’re getting efficiency gains of around 22 percent, so people are saving a day a week when they’re using AI,” says Lyons, who is also launching a new AI core skills programme in January.
(Published in the Business section of The Sunday Times, December 29, 2024)