{"id":231916,"date":"2023-06-20T13:42:42","date_gmt":"2023-06-20T17:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mstech.com\/?p=231916"},"modified":"2023-06-20T13:42:44","modified_gmt":"2023-06-20T17:42:44","slug":"ai-part-3-how-much-should-i-worry-about-ai-or-is-this-mostly-hype","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mstech.com\/ai-part-3-how-much-should-i-worry-about-ai-or-is-this-mostly-hype\/","title":{"rendered":"AI Part 3: How much should I worry about AI, or is this mostly hype?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.14.7″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.14.7″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.14.7″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/www.mstech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Resized.png” title_text=”Resized” _builder_version=”4.14.7″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.14.7″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]
Before reading this article, please read: \u201cAI Part 1: Breaking the frame of how we think about AI\u201d<\/a> and \u201cAI Part 2: Business leaders get ready\u201d<\/a><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/p>\n <\/em><\/p>\n <\/em><\/p>\n I first experienced technology hype<\/em> in 1995. I was a lonely, homeschooled 11-year-old who spent my free time learning everything possible about computers.<\/p>\n I heard the news on a sunny spring morning: Windows 95<\/em> was coming. And it was promised to be an operating system unlike anything that came before it. Week by week, I learned more: It would play videos, record audio, provide access to the Internet, and feature dazzling screensavers.\u00a0 And all the magic centered around a button labeled \u201cStart.\u201d<\/p>\n The day USA Today featured a full double page ad with nothing but this mystical \u201cStart\u201d button in the middle, I just knew I was about to be part of the most important technological advancement of our time.<\/p>\n The countdown to launch day began.<\/p>\n Ah, Windows 95\u2026<\/p>\n In the decades since, we have all witnessed much greater technological advancements. We have lived through the .com boom, the smartphone explosion, and the social media invasion. But for me, nothing evoked the pitch of emotion that surrounded Windows 95.<\/p>\n The frenzy around AI is something entirely other<\/em>.<\/p>\n It is hard to know how to respond to it. The story of AI promises disruption at such existential levels it is difficult to grasp: Are we headed for work-free, equality-for-all utopia?\u00a0 Or for a post-apocalyptic world serving digital overlords? Or for a world like this one, with another new tool, and another overhyped launch in our memory?<\/p>\n I\u2019m asked regularly by professionals and business leaders: Should I pay special attention to AI?\u00a0 Or is this just more technological hype?<\/p>\n Until recently, my answer was that AI was evolving, but in very targeted ways. Understand the niches, keep an eye on it, but don\u2019t worry about it (I even wrote articles to this effect).\u00a0 This was the consensus of experts and the prediction of most futurists.<\/p>\n But when ChatGPT was released on November 30, 2022, it quickly became clear that this was a threshold moment in AI development.<\/p>\n Then, in April of 2023, the underlying intelligence was upgraded to GPT4 and the nature of that threshold became apparent: This was the starting gun in a race to a new kind of AI, and to the rapid integration of it. Recent months have been turbulent and chaotic in the tech industry.<\/p>\n Change has been so rapid, that most of us have struggled to grasp the significance of all it portends.\u00a0 For me, it took rounds of dialogs with leading thinkers from cognitive science, AI research, and tech startups.<\/p>\n They helped me understand that behind the drama and hype is a titanic shift. \u00a0The development of the new models of Artificial Intelligence is an epicenter out of which shockwaves of disruption will slam into every business large and small in coming months and years, and the time to prepare is now.<\/p>\n There are 4 reasons why every professional and business leader should be investing significant<\/strong> and focused attention<\/strong> on Artificial Intelligence now, not later:<\/p>\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Therefore, it provides the possibility of entirely new business model approaches, it rapidly makes obsolete whole\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 classes of jobs, and it redefines our relationships to problem solving, to work, and to each other.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n AI is novel. The pace of change is extreme and accelerating. For most businesses, the barriers are low before massive disruption hits (along with its accompanying threat and opportunity). Disruption does not require the invention of newer, smarter AIs: Simply of the implementation of the artificial intelligence already available on the market.<\/p>\n I cannot escape the conclusion: we must prepare now.<\/p>\n Mainstay is investing in education, implementation, and safeguards for AI internally. We have developed a cross-functional team, a full-time implementation engineer role, and a series of tests that help us to reimagine business with AI.\u00a0 We are working to educate and empower our clients, so we can all anticipate what\u2019s coming, prepare, and work to minimize the threat and pursue the opportunities of AI.<\/p>\n And this is just the beginning. We recommend that all business leaders and professionals work to understand AI, partner with it, and move to the cutting-edge of their field. The threatened pace of disruption is too great for a \u201cwait and see\u201d approach.<\/p>\n The time to prepare is now.<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.14.7″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.14.7″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.14.7″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_image _builder_version=”4.14.7″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.14.7″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.14.7″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.14.7″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Before reading this article, please read: \u201cAI Part 1: Breaking the frame of how we think about AI\u201d and \u201cAI Part 2: Business leaders get ready\u201d I first experienced technology hype in 1995. 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