Engineers say test it and ship it, or shut the lab down. Others imply everything will emerge from a society of agents. Both are partly right, but I think both make a deep error, and it's one that matters for designing Minds for Our Minds.
Dave Edwards is a Co-Founder of Artificiality. He previously co-founded Intelligentsia.ai (acquired by Atlantic Media) and worked at Apple, CRV, Macromedia, Morgan Stanley, Quartz, and ThinkEquity. Contact at dave@artificialityinstitute.org.
Context is everything—whom you're with, where you're going, and why. Machines currently lack the ability to understand this context, but generative AI, especially modern large language models, hold the promise of changing this limitation.
Artificiality Co-founders, Helen and Dave Edwards, spoke about Rethinking Value in the Age of AI at the EY Innovation Realized conference at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco on April 16 & 17.
Generative AI is growing quickly as individuals, corporations, and investors all try to stay ahead. The rapid change is creating optimistic visions of the future while also creating significant anxiety as people justifiably worry about their role in a future of abundant intelligent machines
On April 9th, we presented our research update on the State of AI & Complex Change which focused on confusion about AI, status of AI adoption and deployments, anxiety about AI, and AI in the Wild.
There is a lot of chatter about whether companies are realizing value from generative AI. Realizing value from generative AI will take time to prepare, capture, and create the data that allows generative AI to understand the context of our complex human lives.
Enterprises are failing to see enough value add to justify purchasing new generative AI systems like Microsoft CoPilot. Why? Adapting to AI is a complex change that requires different methods for evaluation and change management.
Apple + Google is possibly the most important corporate frenemy relationship today. How these two companies establish their positions in generative AI is critical to watch. But how they re-position their partnership to include generative AI might be one of the most important events of the year.
I agree with the government that antitrust is important. That said, I would hate to see data privacy and security diminished just as we are trying to take advantage of AI’s power to be a personalized digital partner.
