AI for Orchestrators - Newsletter #15

The latest AI insights for Business Leaders and Organisational Orchestrators.

Staccato provocation…

Which flywheels will transform and/or disrupt your business in the next 2 years…?

Hello Business Orchestrators!

Welcome to this week's exploration of trends and news items that caught my attention in the space of generative AI — a dynamic force remapping the global business terrain from emerging startups to established corporations. Each technological upgrade propels us further, igniting robust strategies and accelerates a cycle of innovation, application, and rapid advancement. As demands for more AI compute surge, major data operators expand, feeding back via entangled loops, intensifying this momentum. This rise in AI appetite from all of us heightens the need for more power, escalating energy and cooling demands (aka water). Visionaries hint that AI may solve these resource challenges with yet-to-be-discovered scientific breakthroughs. Amid this optimism (I’m one of those optimists/pragmatist), a pressing question looms: Can the pace of AI development solve our critical environmental issues before it significantly contributes to them? Stay tuned.

We also venture into the complex realm where multiple S-curves overlap and converge—sometimes subtly, often significantly, depending on your organisations ability to read and take advantage of them - spurring exponential growth across diverse technologies/industries. This synergy isn't just altering sectors but is fundamentally rewiring the business ecosystem. Leading the charge are generative AI, agents, and robotics, all advancing swiftly as they evolve through new types of data, and in the case of robotics… video training. This isn't merely a technical evolution; it's a radical shift in operational and innovation paradigms.

Another striking trend emerges as generative AI slashes both the time and costs of ideating and operating businesses, simultaneously boosting quality. This shift means that less funding maybe necessary to kickstart innovative technologies and propel them toward commercialisation. Question is, does the need for funding really diminish? Or does it mean we can do more with the same budgets? Lots to ponder there, but one thing that should improve is the bureaucratic red tape typically involved in securing the funds to discover, create and scale. With widespread adoption of generative AI enhancing human efforts across workflows, processes are accelerating significantly.

How must organisations of all sizes adapt to harness these opportunities fully? Join in as we dissect these transformations and the immense opportunities they present for businesses poised to adapt and thrive.

So buckle up and lets dive into some of the weeks headlines that could be on your radars, dear Orchestrators, as you give me 5 minutes of your valuable time!

This weeks attention grabbers:

• My 5am regime kicks off with a couple of triple espressos, the Financial Times, and spinning up new ideas in ChatGPT that awoke me at the false dawn. So it’s interesting to see the FT doing a deal with OpenAI on content and amping up journalist capabilities (FT paywall).

• MIT Technology Review on Sam Altman giving some more hints on agent capabilities. There are a lot of speculations and expectations on what is coming in ChatGPT 5 imminently.

• Drones are getting choreographed by ChatGPT; Techxplore has more. Duck.

• The FT has been talking to professional animators and advertisers about their thoughts on OpenAI’s SORA video generation, and potential “world simulation tool” (FT paywall).

• How to build and protect skills in the workplace with AI and robotics converging. Big subject, evolving and case dependent. Probably need AI on this one… Techxplore.

• How much energy and water did your last ChatGPT image/chat consume? The FT gets into it (paywall). Will it drive the construction of more gas-fired power plants needed for backup?

• We humans process visual data to navigate our lives without even realising it. But what about the AIs and robots? World renowned AI scientist, Fei-Fei Li is focusing on the challenge of reasoning from visual data. Expect a tranche of new industrial use cases when this is solved. Reuters has the story here.

Newsletter summarised in a mind map: 

5 questions:

1. How is your organisation leveraging the overlapping S-curves of technology to capture new growth opportunities?

2. What specific changes have you implemented to adapt to the radical shifts in operational and innovation paradigms driven by AI, agents, and robotics?

3. How is the evolution of generative AI influencing your strategies for resource allocation and business operations?

4. In light of possible reduced funding requirements due to AI efficiencies, how are you redirecting your investment strategies?

5. With bureaucratic hurdles diminishing in the wake of AI adoption, what new processes or systems are you putting in place to expedite innovation and commercialisation?

Staccato Burst…

The teams driving the workflows know it when they see it…harness them in more creative ways…

That’s all for this week. If you’re curious you can also check out more insights below, on the organisational implications from applying (or not applying) GenAI.