With a tremendous amount of power available at the click of a mouse or keypad, will creativity be reduced to scrolling through almost infinite options generated and presented by an AI synthesis or creation engine?
The structure of how to get things done should be based on what the objectives are to begin with. Understanding what it is that you are trying to accomplish and what successful outcomes look like for that endeavor should be a primary deliverable. Once that is understood, create practical structures, processes, organizations and capabilities designed to deliver those objectives.
Since around 1980, the past has become accessible in everything that is now the internet. Not the complete past, mind you, but it's been getting there. Every project to digitize works of literature, art, philosophy, religion and anything else from the past is serving to capture pre-internet into the digital present.
This is certainly reminiscent of the Dot Com era where everything transformed from "Brand" to "Brand.Com" overnight. This was to show being forward thinking, in-tune with technology and also played into market position and potential valuation of brands and companies in peoples' minds.
Continuing to explore intelligence models and AI, I used ChatGPT, the conversational AI model from OpenAI, to answer a question about remote work. Following is the unedited answer to my question. Interestingly, I feel the answer is quite good and written in a very understandable and approachable manner. This is a reason why a large number of jobs and roles will change radically over the coming years. ChatGPT's answer:
So the dilemma isn't AI taking over the world in the next 5 years. The dilemma is a radical restructuring of business models, processes and systems that eliminate a critical human aspect before economies, countries and society as a whole are ready for those changes.
Technology adoption will remain a key driver of business transformation over the next five years according to the report. Over 85% of organizations surveyed identify adoption of new and frontier technologies as the most likely trend to impact their organizations. Big data, cloud computing and AI are assumed by over 75% of the companies as technology that they will adopt.
How can one successfully apply intelligence to a situation without the inclusion of empathy, and for that matter respect? How will empathy be added to the equation?
As soon as a business is more than regional, it is critical not to confine one's thinking to geographical boundaries. Global implies being everywhere, working everywhere and creating everywhere. If it's important not to confine one's thinking to geographical boundaries, isn't an office or office campus a geographical boundary?
How can the United States effectively compete with a nation that is dedicated to advancing and exploiting AI (China) while the US itself seeks to reign in and put a cap on the companies that potentially have the critical mass to actually succeed on a global scale?