Introduction
- Jamais Cascio BANI framework
- Applies to AI
- AI-nxiety
- Job
- Career
- Children
- Humankind
- Job
- Series: Positive Futures
- Why I shouldn’t be afraid of it
- What I need to do to adapt to it
- Why I shouldn’t be afraid of it
Portrayal
- AI is often portrayed on screen as scary
- James Cameron’s 1984 “The Terminator”
- Paul Verhoeven’s 1987 “Robocop”
Source: Gaudencio Garcinuño, Terminator
Source: Sam Beckwith, One ED-209 and His Dog
1. Understand it
- AI as a function
- Input parameters mapped to output
- Parameters
- More parameters
- Lots more parameters
- Models
100,000,000,000,000
100 trillion parameters in ChatGPT 4
Models (more next time)
- Statistical
- Linear and logistic regression
- Naïve Bayes classifiers
- K-Nearest Neighbour
- Support vector machines
- Artificial neural networks
- Supervised learning
- Decision trees
- Aggregated into Random Forest
Steps for making AI less scary
- Use it, understand it, integrate it
- Embed AI in your day-to-day
- Pop a tab right now, keep it open
- Use it
- Especially when you don’t know what you’re doing
- It’s there to help you think
- Augment human ability, not replace it
- Mobile phones train carriage example
- Google Calendar example
- Embed AI in your day-to-day
Evolution of tech jobs
- My job used to be about
- Using technology, then
- Leading teams that use technology, but now
- I help companies think and organise
Who knows what business transformation will look like in the “AI positive future”, but this is how I’m going to find out.
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