📨 Weekly digest: 3 2024 | AI: your problem is everyone's problem
Davos, Anthropic, OpenAI | AI this week in the news; use cases; AI for the techies
Hello friends,
If you're thinking of integrating AI into your business or starting an AI project, take a break and ask yourself this critical question first:
What problem am I solving that a large corporation like Microsoft, Nvidia, Google, Amazon, and Apple won't be solving?
If you're solving the problem of making the human race better by reducing poverty, creating more jobs, increasing the minimum wage, improving quality of life for everyone, then that is a pretty awesome AI business you're starting!
The only valid answer to this question would be "A problem that is so small and so unprofitable that a large corporation can't be bothered, or so against the grain of current thought that an organization can't even comprehend its significance."
But here's just a reminder. Solving the problem of making the human race better by reducing poverty, creating more jobs, increasing the minimum wage, improving quality of life for everyone is unlikely to be highly profitable and against the grain of current commercial dimension.
Large corporations won't be solving that one. They'll be fighting against it.
If you can figure out a way of circumventing the current financial systems that propel up the “pseudo”-capitalist model we currently use and partner with large corporations to turn it into a workable mechanism for change, then you might make it.
Good for you.
But I guess what I am trying to say is that if you have a problem, particularly one in the current fast pace evolving AI environment, well your problem is everyone's problem.
What do we want to do with AI, what do we want from it and where do we go from there. But what if it fails? (for more see AI use case below)
As Charles Schulz once said through his character Snoopy, "It never fails. Just hint that some of their troubles might be with themselves, and they get mad at you!"
What do you think?
Looking forward to reading your thoughts in a comment.
Happy days,
Yael and al.
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