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Future of AI Meetup at the Asia School of Business!

In the past couple of weeks, I’ve had the chance to speak at a couple of events concerning generative AI, most recently the Future of AI meetup with NextUpAsia at the Asia School of Business!

As one of the invited speakers for this event, I had the chance to talk a lot about the different uses of AI in enterprise, drawing a distinction between generative AI and AI for process improvement, and also got the chance to highlight my thoughts about artificial intelligence in the context of business and in education, to demonstrate Midjourney for enterprises (and to create a t-shirt design for the Asia School of Business!), and to meet many new and interesting collaborators with whom I think there will be lots of unique opportunities to work together.

Some of these clips show you what happened at the session:

#1: Panel discussion about generative AI technologies.

During this part of the session, my fellow panelists Johnson Goh, Shahbaaz D’Ali, and Jason Sosa had a lively discussion with the audience about the present and future of AI technologies, touching upon the impact of generative AI on different industries, as well as some of the core limitations of generative AI.

Everyone came well-prepared with examples and topics to discuss, and it was mindblowing to watch the average level of discussion on the floor that night! My particular contribution to the session was to discuss the concept of the AI hallucination, which I’ll probably speak a little bit more about in another post later on, during which I observed that rather than replacing humans, it’s likely that generative AI will simply create an increased demand for humans who can exercise higher quality critical thinking and judgment in the future.

#2: Education in AI – A Discussion.

During this part of the session, I had the chance to highlight some of the key challenges and opportunities posed by Artificial Intelligence in education, and to also draw attention to the recent (and admirable!) actions of Singapore’s Minister Chan Chun Sing in highlighting an AI strategy for the Singaporean education system alongside speaking about some of the challenges and opportunities that students will face in the future as a consequence of the development of generative AI technologies.

Thoughts about the education system and AI preparedness.

#3: A Midjourney Enterprise demonstration.

This was rather spontaneous, but I had the chance to conduct a training about the ways that ChatGPT and Midjourney can integrate with one another in order to create something that is greater than the sum of their parts, by facilitating the process of image generation at scale.

Surprisingly, that’s not all as boring as it might initially sound, because we had the chance to create foods from a Ramadhan bazaar and to showcase these as proofs of concept to business owners along the way as well!

ChatGPT and Midjourney demonstration!

Conclusion:

Overall, this talk was an incredible experience that I think has opened up a host of interesting new opportunities and a new frontier for me, as well as an enjoyable evening where I truly felt that I was living the life of the mind as I participated in a conversation that no doubt will continue to dominate the consciousness of people around the world in the days moving forward.

It was a huge privilege to be a part of the AI conversation and to begin talking about the ways in which AI can be used by businesses as part of their journey onward into the 21st century, and I’m thrilled to look at the opportunities ahead in the days to come 🙂

Thank you to NextUpAsia and the Asia School of Business established in collaboration with MIT for having me!

P.S. Work has been busy, but it’s beginning to dovetail more with writing and creating a lot more – I’ll try to write more regularly soon!

Generative AI is not all there is.

In recent days, I’ve had the fortune to become a part of a few interesting projects – gave a few more talks on artificial intelligence, most recently the Future of AI meetup at the Asia School of Business, which has led to a couple of opportunities that I look forward to speaking about a bit more in days ahead!

Today, I’d like to talk about something a little different:

The fact that ChatGPT is not the entire scope of AI, and that people should begin to look at a wider picture.

In recent days, people have been pretty fascinated by what AI can do, but a lot of that discussion has focused on generative tools – things like ChatGPT and Midjourney, and the admittedly wonderful use cases that they can be put to in the context of individual task completion and also business use cases.

There’s a bit of a problem with all that, though.

I think that the world has become so captivated by the universe of generative artificial intelligence that it has come to neglect its infinitely more impactful brothers and sisters, as well as the ways in which they make our lives easier.

Should we forget our voice assistants and all the algorithms that are technically powered by machine learning and therefore AI simply because we enjoy viral things on social media?

Let us remember that generative AI is not everything; to say that it is is to forget about the years of progress that has gone into the development of these technologies; it is to simply impose a narrow view that is made possible, only because one has so limited a range of perception, enabled only by viral posts and seemingly plausible fads. 

It is not that generative AI is bad by any means, but it is simply that people do not fully appreciate the scope of what automation can do for them, and their fall find themselves caught in to poor patterns of decision making.

Granted, not all enterprises are making use of Robotic Process Automation or conducting customer service interactions via chatbots, but that doesn’t mean that we can’t make use of AI in other areas that aren’t just ChatGPT.

Therefore, it is my professional opinion that if you want to ask about what AI can do for your enterprise, ask not just what “AI” can do for you, as that can be a vague question that will cause you to fall prey to just using buzzwords and also to the cycle of hype that characterizes something like the cryptocurrency market.

Remember that?

Just saying… Technology in its best form shouldn’t be used like that.

In all likelihood, if you simply believe influencers, the answer to the question of it will be a question that will reach its resolution in the form of overly hyped statements about how this technology can write emails and advertising materials for you more quickly, and does not fundamentally resolve many of the core issues which actual enterprises face in the process, of automating their operations.

To have a clearer sense of what AI can do for you as an enterprise, ask yourself first about all the things that you can currently do with your phone in order to optimize your life that don’t just include generative AI; if you haven’t done this already, I encourage you to give it a try – look at what you can optimize with your phone; is it sending emails? Is it perhaps eliminating other inefficiencies during the course of the day? Are there specific tasks you must undertake in order for the day to proceed successfully, by a specific time of day? 

To expand that sense of what is possible, ask yourself:

What would happen in the event that every single person on your team had access to these improvements in efficiency, and how that would potentially transform your organization?

What could you gain if you had the competitive edge in a market where these tools are coming out extremely quickly and all offer the possibility of dominating the game?

…What could you lose if you choose not to take up that edge in a world where everyone is racing forward with all their might and energy?

Blur

So many things happened over the past week that I think that the entire thing is basically a blur – way too many things to even think about any individual one of them in clear detail.

For instance, we’ve got GPT-4 on ChatGPT alongside punishing rate limits that basically make the thing unusable after 25 prompts:

…But then you also have the epically awesome outputs that come out from the thing that make you realize that it’s perfectly understandable why it is that people are interested in using this thing to the hilt.

Then, you’ve got Midjourney V5 coming out, alongside natural language prompting, and this whole range of insane looking tessellations that can be created just with the software itself.

I have plenty of thoughts about all of these things and ultimately everything that’s happened this past week, but the most cool of these things, I think, was probably the Microsoft 365 Future Of Work event.

Too long to watch?

Honestly, I think that you’d be depriving yourself there, but a couple of things:

A) It’s wild to imagine that in the future, all of us will essentially just be creating presentations and documents by doing nothing but just using natural language in order to communicate.

B) I never actually thought that I’d think that Microsoft would be cool during my lifetime!

It’s been a pretty incredible week to say the very least, and although it started with a bit of a hiccup on my part, I can’t wait for the next ones ahead 🙂

Incidentally, I also just started a small project in collaboration with my freelancer and also in alignment with my focus on education; if you’d be interested to check it out, head here 🙂