I am still staggered by the announcements I posted hours ago (https://bit.ly/44QSgF1):
-- We learned that our machines can smell, surely better than us
-- They must know how to taste well for Coke to build a mystery product using AI
-- They seem to beat at least 99% of creative thinkers in creative work tests,
-- They mimic our voices completely and alter our lip movements in live videos to make us appear to be speaking foreign languages fluently.
-- They have begun to at least aid us on the most demanding scientific quests like P vs. NP
-- There was another article in the previous 24 hours about how ChatGPT diagnosed what Doctors could not (bit.ly/45QgD6Z)
We still feel GenAI is about chatbots, image editing, and computer codes.
Since the dawn of humanity, critical and scientific thinking have been the domain of 30-W powered biological neural networks, popularly known as human brains.
In announcements that came in a day, we have strong proof that our machines are now doing creative thinking, inventing, innovating, and discovering better than almost all of us across fields.
This is so huge that if I don't still bring the caps lock in, I never will for anything else!
AI IS BIGGER THAN INTERNET. AND IT IS BECAUSE WHAT IT WILL DO TO INNOVATION.
McKinsey published a report recently discussing how GenAI is expected to accelerate innovations across functions (mck.co/44EaUzL). From quantum computing to driverless cars, drug discovery, progress in synthetic proteins/chemicals/biology/data, robotics, surgical vision, clinical diagnosis, supply chain, climate tech, etc. - most fields are witnessing explosive and unending transformations.
I wrote amid a recent book review (bit.ly/3ZaakJ7) that our machines are developing an ability to analyze/comprehend/manipulate complexity at a level far superior to ours. They may not surpass us in every domain like we have not surpassed the Dolphins in the Dolphin Language domain. But, if we are still more intelligent than Dolphins without beating whatever Turin test they may have designed, our machines could be more intelligent than us, too, already given the weight of evidence. Or, they will get there.
As I wrote previously (https://bit.ly/3YoIxE5): Right now, our machines are the dumbest they will ever be. Their relentless rise implies the biggest top-down theme for the coming years is likely to be innovation.
