"AI will transform procurement." Sure. But which kind of AI? Doing what, exactly?
That question is at the heart of this episode. We cover three AI subdomains procurement professionals should actually understand — Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision, and Anomaly Detection — including what each one does well, where it breaks down, and where it shows up in procurement today.
We also cover something more important: how modern AI systems like Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini work by layering multiple types of AI together depending on the problem they're solving. And why that makes "it's powered by AI" one of the least useful things a vendor can tell you.
If you work in procurement and you're being pitched AI solutions, this episode gives you the vocabulary to ask better questions.
Based on the following edition of The Pure Procurement Newsletter: https://newsletter.pureprocurement.ca/p/10-ai-subdomains