Titans and Tumbleweeds
I’m mid-flight after a week of sessions in London discussing diverse topics impacting our colleagues and clients. My 7 plus hour flight is long enough for personal reflection. The WiFi is strong enough to post my musings on LinkedIn, but not so strong that I could stream and be distracted by another season of Only Murders in the Building.
So here goes.
The profound impact of game-changing progress is the evisceration of existing value propositions. As the sun set on their respective Ages, hunter-gatherers, philosophers, scribes, craftsmen and merchants were eclipsed by farming, mass education systems, the printing press, industrial machines and global supply chains. For my fellow Gen Xers and I, the Internet Age reinvented personal relationships, professional lives and virtually every interaction in our public spaces.
And yet, today’s AI is an avant-goût of how an exponentially blossoming technology will eventually surpass our imagination.
In the span of a fortnight, OpenAI launched a new advanced reasoning model called OpenAI o1, capable of fact-checking itself to improve accuracy and opening new frontiers for STEM-centric use cases. Google upgraded its NotebookLM capability to ingest sophisticated content and create a podcast where two AI avatars have a freakishly natural deep-dive conversation on a topic. And, Meta launched Movie Gen which generates 16 second video snippets from a prompt with the ability to personalize based off a photo, and replace objects within the clips.
There has never been a more exhilarating time to invent or reinvent anything and everything - whether you are an architect, a chef, an accountant, a small business owner or a CEO.
Do not be limited by the imagination of others. The price of testing and learning pales to pennies when looking through the rear view mirror. Today’s titans are tomorrow’s tumbleweeds.
As I look over my shoulder, with cabin lights dimmed there are enough laptops lit. I wonder what fantastical use cases are being conceived. I wonder whose game-changing idea will have had its origins at 38,000 feet on this flight.
UPDATED Oct 15th, 2024
Lost for words, no pun intended. Took this short blog post and fed the text to Google’s NotebookLM. The AI-generated podcast has a few forgivable glitches but really - wow! Listen and decide for yourself.
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11moLoved this Vineet, both the content and the tone which felt very human in world of increasingly AI generated content. (It's at this point you tell me that it was in fact AI generated and I stop believing anything I read)
AI Builder and Partner for Insurance companies AWS-Machine Learning certified, AWS Cloud Quest: Generative AI, AWS-Associate Architect
11moGreat thoughts Vineet. Aptly timed I must say.
President, Humanetics Sensors & Chief Marketing Officer Humanetics Group
11moCelestial thoughts Vineet! If there is one thing that AI reminds me of, ironically, is the awesome power of human collaboration and teamwork: when something delegated comes back so much better than you could ever have conceived by yourself; when a small throwaway seed of an idea returns as a complete, rounded organism… we are stronger together. 👊