As vanilla headlines project that AI will take center stage during the upcoming 2024 NAB Show, you can guarantee that most technology organizations showcasing in Las Vegas will be ignorant to how their businesses are being impacted by the homogenization of AI-based tools, namely the capabilities of generative AI. Nor do many companies truly understand how their customers are dealing with the disruptive potential of machine learning and large language models – to approach with caution, or run full steam ahead? In the years to come, we could see a reversal of trends similar to our recently observed cloud crunch, whereby technology businesses are now actively shifting compute resources from cloud infrastructure back to on-premises systems, after charging into the…