How do we live in an age of change?

Let’s talk honestly. The past ten months have been quite a ride. What has actually happened, once we strip away the hype and excessive excitement?

My profession, as we used to know it, no longer exists. No one needs to write code by hand anymore. Well, except for fun, much like people practice calligraphy. Other professions built around processing and accumulating information have also taken a serious hit.

Steam and electricity once replaced animals as a source of physical power. Now a new technosphere is taking over the one thing that made humans uniquely powerful: our intellectual capacity. And it will remain with us even if every AI vendor goes bankrupt.

So, how do we move forward?

Skip Denial and Anger

First, skip denial and anger and go straight to acceptance. It will save you time and energy.

And second? Be happy. Yes, really. Be happy!

Crocheting a Multilayered Memory

Imagine a large corporation where knowledge of its processes is scattered across a vast sea of documents and inside people’s heads. You can only observe systems this complex in fragments. (Don’t kid yourself. Your company is no different.) The result? Endless fixing of everything that can break, endless meetings to highlight yet another troublesome part of the system. Literally, shining a beam of light into the darkness to bring one small piece into focus, if only for a little while. And then forgetting about it again, because that’s how humans work.

With AI, however, we can build a multilayered memory of our processes, rather like crocheting, where one loop connects to another. Think of a neural network: a single neuron is primitive, yet the whole is immensely powerful when the connections are right.

With this multilayered memory, we’ll be able to grasp our processes as a whole and finally see them in their entirety.

Some of my recent visualizations of just a tiny fraction of these processes resemble fluid dynamics or cosmic nebulae. They are extraordinarily beautiful.

Now imagine what we could create by crocheting together knowledge from the laboratory all the way to the production line. Then imagine attaching to this fabric the software that operates on our data, our finances, our workforce, and our compliance processes.

And doing all this economically, using our own clusters running a hybrid mix of paid and free models.

The Greatest Adventure

This is the most exciting thing to happen in my professional life!

So perhaps the corgi shouldn’t keep getting dragged along by those balloons. Their time has gone.

The greatest adventure lies ahead!