New steam revolution
Elon Musk stepped into the AI competition field by presenting a new (or better say recent) AI company — XAI. With his unique view of the outside world and unprecedented ambitions expressed, we may expect that an outstanding competitor to current existing AI products was recently born.
I’m pretty sure that we might expect not just one more “next word predictive product”, but the solution with its unique and extremely challenging mission.
During our evolution, humanity solved an enormous number of tasks to survive, starting with a fire-taming challenge and ending with taming atomic energy. Each next task was exponentially much more complicated compared to the previous one, so each accomplishment only strengthens our mind, changing the complexity of our neural network, and making new horizons possible and achievable.
Are we leaving in the period when the next human survival task can be already delegated to soulless machines? Can machines already produce, but not just predict? Can it be a real evaluation and testament to its success?
Let’s say, can the scientific proof of dark energy existence or design for thermonuclear reactor be a threshold for our complete trust? Can we finally accept with no doubt the life-changing decisions produced by non-humans?
There is interesting research that Microsoft accomplished regarding the impact of different inventions on our life. The steam revolution had a huge impact on the industry and increased overall efficiency from 15 to 20 percent. That is a huge increase compared to other nowadays tools that pretend to be game changers for developer productivity — JIRA, Slack, Email, etc. All this variety of tools added only from 2 to 5 percent.
Generative AI even in the current stage gives from 4 to 17 per cent performance increase. That is a very huge number and can predict a new technology revolution similar to the steam revolution in the past. And we are only at the very beginning of this journey and interacting yet with far-from-perfect AI models.
Today I found out that Thoughtwork, the global widely known authoritative consulting company established a new C-level position — Chief AI Officer.
I think that a new era of stepping artificial intelligence into our regular daily routine already officially started when companies of such level claimed the need to have a new organizational vertical and confidence in the impact of AI on each company branch.
Summary
Interesting opinion heard — AI will not replace you, but someone else who uses AI to be more effective will.
So, we should be prepared that this superpower will be considered a permanent skill and most importantly — the required skill for any technical and non-technical employee in the near future.
We will compete with others having all our weaknesses covered and our strengths multiplied to a level we can’t even imagine. And do not use AI right now in everyday working routine is to be poorly prepared for such completions in the future.
