Harvard University Computer Science Tripos Questions

COMPUTER SCIENCE TRIPOS Part II – 2023 – Paper 93
Business Studies (sam56)
A PhD student has made an AI-powered chat system available on the Internet,
through a technology preview on their departmental webpage. The student has
attracted millions of users, and has exhausted their PhD-funded server resource.
They have been asked by the department to remove the preview from the university’s
servers and find a way to fund it themself.
(a) Referencing the customer adoption curve, how should the student go about
analysing early product use to inform their development plan for the product?
[5 marks]
(b) Outline a plan to enable the student to build a business around a dialogue-based
AI chatbot, including explicit risk mitigation strategies for the 5 major risks to
the product’s success.
[15 marks]
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