𝗚𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗮, 𝗡𝗶𝗴𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗮, 𝗜𝘃𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗖𝗼𝗮𝘀𝘁 and 𝗦𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗴𝗮𝗹 AI for Business and Career Growth West Africa Tour with IE University and Business School
I just arrived in Accra for our first day.
I already had over 180 slides for these days, and after a day flying, between some new info (please just check "Autogen" and the paper "Communicative Agents for Software Development") and after writing over 40 pages of ideas, I officially need 200 more slides to share what is going on in the AI world, what I think it can be done with it, and what some of the implications may be.
Some may be thinking "Less is more". And to that, I say: Sure, process 4000 monthly new AI papers, the craziness of announcement after announcement from Microsoft, Google, Nvidia, Meta, Runway, Midjourney, Canva, and the others, and apply it to different industries, departments, roles and problems, understand potential risks, implications and ethical considerations, determine the best possible solutions to all problems that may exist around it, and do that in 10 simple slides with no text.
To anyone reading: I really hope you learn as much as you can about this. There are plenty of newsletters, content creators, opinion leaders, tutorials, repositories, prompts libraries, free and paid courses, and official pages from the usual suspects that can be extremely valuable.
The main key, in my estimation, is to be extremely clear and ambitious about your greatest societal, professional and personal aspirations may be, so you can identify what you would use these increasingly powerful tools for, and gradually leverage them as they become available.
We should understand that AI´s greatest virtues, its risks, and worst negative implications, can and probably will affect your life dramatically, and you might as well make the most out of it and use it for the greater good.
These days I will be a bit more tactical around specific use cases that can multiply your ability to create economic growth for companies and individuals.
And since we are talking about it, and I am not posting that much lately, I want to reiterate:
1) Ai is actually a huge deal
2) A lot of people will lose their jobs, and even if we create new ones, a social pain transition period that we don´t have good solutions for is very likely
3) Massive reskilling and upskilling, and entrepreneurship are vital,
4) It is here to stay, it will only get more capable, there is no turning back, and we need to embrace it and try to mitigate its negative effects. Banning or watermarks are probably not going to work (New research shows how all watermark systems and detectors continue to fail).
5) It is a huge opportunity democratizer for individuals and small businesses, even in developing countries, as long as there is some level of access to devices and models.
Thank you to IE University, IE Business School for your commitment to reinventing higher education with relentless innovation and impressive action.