Throughout history, there have been enough cases in which theories that no one would question today have been controversial, contested, and even dismissed. Some to such an extent that those who put them forward paid with their lives for their belief in the discoveries made.
Galileo Galilei held the ideas that the earth was round and revolved around the sun, ideas that were considered heretical by the church, the authority of the time in the Middle Ages. For this reason, the scientist spent the rest of his life punished under a kind of house arrest.
As early as the 19th century, the physician Semmelweis proposed that doctors wash their hands between autopsies and medical interventions on patients. Although the proposal was documented and came after the observation of a higher mortality rate and the similarity of the causes of death in these cases, his idea was viewed as offensive by the medical community of the time. It was not until Louis Pasteur confirmed the germ theory that Semmelweis' idea was recognized as valuable and capable of saving lives.
As for airplanes, the French general who would become the Allied Commander in World War I, Ferdinand Foch, said in 1911 that airplanes were interesting technological toys, but that they had no military value. You know the rest of the story, I won't go into it.
What links these examples (and many others not brought to the surface) is the validity of revolutionary ideas regardless of the initial hostile reaction they were received by the authorities in the field. Some of us have the "arrogance" to condemn the reactions received by these avant-garde ideas, without realizing that we can also fall into the trap of making exactly the same mistake: clinging to outdated ways of thinking and refusing to be curious and neutral towards the unknown.
Well, in such a situation lies the controversial artificial intelligence, which we see perfectly integrated into business technology. We are already using it (although we are among the few who invest in it) and we know that at some point, sooner or later, it will become mainstream.
The sample we created on the Microsoft Azure platform, can be tested here, in a few clicks. The principle is simple, the implications are immense and can be capitalized on in real business.
We understand that the first reaction may be unfriendly. All great ideas have gone through these stages:„"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."”