Is SDSU watching? See where the university put its AI-enabled cameras - Times of San Diego

Everyone's buying AI tools. Almost nobody's using them. You're not alone in that "$200/month wasted" feeling. That subscription sitting untouched isn't a failure of your intelligence — it's a failure

Everyone's buying AI tools. Almost nobody's using them.

You're not alone in that "$200/month wasted" feeling. That subscription sitting untouched isn't a failure of your intelligence — it's a failure of implementation. Smart people get sold on the promise, not the process.

Here's what SDSU's AI camera rollout quietly teaches us: they didn't start by replacing everything. They identified one specific problem — campus safety — and applied AI to that single use case. Not a hundred things. One thing.

That's the pattern most gurus skip. AI works when it solves a named, measurable problem you already have. Not when it's bought on hope.

The companies winning with AI right now aren't the ones who spent the most. They're the ones who started the smallest.

Your next step isn't finding the "best" AI tool. It's writing down the one business problem that costs you the most time or money each week. That answer tells you exactly where AI belongs in your business.

What's the one task you'd automate first if you knew it would actually work — and what stopped you from trying so far?

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Although SDSU might not be the first to integrate this technology, the cameras reflect a nationwide trend toward AI-powered surveillance. This story ...