Firstly, I’d like to thank the team at Re:Comm for inviting me to be this years keynote speaker in snowy Kitzbuhel, Austria, along luminaries including Aubrey de Grey, one of the world’s top anti-aging pioneers whose work I’ve been following closely for years and whose “Roadmap to End Aging” sounds absolutely fascinating. And as someone who ages I hope he manages to find the Fountain of Youth soon, although as Aubrey and I discussed when we do find it society will have a host of new challenges to deal with, but that’s a story for another article.
During my keynote I was discussed the Future of Artificial Intelligence and took the assembled audience on a 45 minute whirlwind tour of the state of AI and took the lid off some of the most exciting developments in the field over the past few years.
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Developments that included the creation of Creative Machines that can accelerate an organisations rate of innovation by anywhere between thousands fold and millions fold, the emergence of self-designing, self-evolving, self-learning, and self-replicating AI’s. And much more, including the democratisation of content creation and creativity.
But we didn’t stop there, we also discussed the emergence of DNA neural networks and even 3D printed AI’s to prove that the future of AI isn’t what you think it is… And as the snow came down outside we then rounded out with some questions and mulled what it would be like to live to the ripe old age of 150 when humans are DNA supercomputers, so, all in all, just another regular day at the office.
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What this means for your leadership team
Innovation speed becomes the contest.
The keynote described creative machines that can lift an organisation's rate of innovation by thousands fold to millions fold. Generative AI, which makes new text, pictures, sound, video and code from a prompt, is rated Act now by 311. As content creation opens up to more people, the advantage moves to teams that learn to use it first.
Systems that improve themselves.
The session pointed to AI that designs, evolves, learns and replicates itself. Self-learning AI keeps improving from its own experience with no people labelling data. 311 rates it Prepare, with wide use expected by 2030. Evolutionary AI borrows ideas from nature and is rated Explore, with wide use expected by 2035.
DNA and long lives raise new questions.
The talk covered DNA neural networks, 3D printed AI and humans as DNA supercomputers living to 150. Archives are also starting to move to DNA media built to last centuries, and 311 rates that trend Watch, with wide use by 2040. Aubrey de Grey and Matthew Griffin agreed that longer lives would bring new challenges for society.
Three questions for your next leadership meeting
Where could a thousand fold gain in innovation speed change our work?
Who owns the decisions when our systems design and learn themselves?
What should we put in place now for generative tools in daily work?
The trends and technologies behind this session
From the 311 Starburst, the 311 Strategic Intelligence Unit’s map of the technologies and trends shaping the next 50 years.
It suggests that AI is moving from a tool people use to a system that improves itself. Creative machines could raise innovation speed by thousands fold to millions fold. Leadership teams should decide where that speed would matter most and who stays accountable for the results.
How does self-learning AI relate to the keynote?
The keynote covered self-learning and self-evolving AI. 311 describes self-learning AI as AI that keeps improving from its own experience after it is deployed, with no people labelling data. It is rated Prepare, with wide use expected by 2030.
How does evolutionary AI relate to the keynote?
The session explored AI that evolves and designs itself. Evolutionary AI borrows ideas from nature. 311 rates it Explore, with a first product in 1990 and wide use expected by 2035.
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Analysis by the 311 Strategic Intelligence Unit, from Matthew Griffin’s session and 311 data.
If Matthew gave this session today
When AI slips beyond human control, leaders must act.
Rogue AI and The Unkillable Machine looks at what happens when AI systems slip beyond human control, and what leaders need to do about it, the natural next question once AI can design and replicate itself.
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