Gen(AI)ssance
The beginning of the Renaissance is often accompanied by a tale of various scholars meeting in the bars of Florence or other public areas around the city. The scholars were living in the city under the patronage of various Families like the Medici Family. The discussions brought on by these intellectuals from various disciplines sparked a renewed interest in what came to be known as the Renaissance.
Key aspects of the Renaissance include:
1. Humanism: A focus on human potential and achievements, emphasizing the study of classical texts, art, and philosophy. Humanism shifted attention from the divine and supernatural to human life, individualism, and worldly subjects.
2. Artistic innovation: Renaissance art became renowned for its realism, use of perspective, and focus on human anatomy. Artists like Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Raphael achieved new levels of artistic expression.
3. Scientific discovery: Figures like Galileo Galilei and Nicolaus Copernicus challenged traditional views and laid the groundwork for modern science.
4. Cultural development: Literature, philosophy, and political thought flourished, with writers such as Dante, Petrarch, and Machiavelli shaping modern thought.
The Renaissance had a profound impact on European society, leading to advancements in art, architecture, science, and philosophy, and laying the foundations for the modern world.
Gen(AI)ssance
The recent explosion of Generative AI is quite similar the what occoured during the Renaissance, except now, we have scholars from all knowledge categories available at our fingertips. We can pursue cross disciplinary learning with our natural language.
'The programming language of the future is human' - Jensen Huang
What this actually does is gives every individual access to the world's knowledge instantly. No longer do we need to read through hundreds of pages to get the answer we are looking for.
One of the major fears surrounding Generative AI is 'I'm going to lose my job to AI'. And while this is a valid concern, the best way to think of Generative AI in my opinion is to recontextualize the conversation.
Remember a job is a human construct - designed to give you value (money) in exchange for effort (services).
What if we thought of AI in the context of yourself instead of thinking of it in the context of your job?
Using Generative AI allows you to reclaim your TIME - the only finite and universally equalising resource that exists.
That's what's most valuable about it.
Agents are coming -
There will be more AI agents than people in the world - Mark Zuckerberg
In the near future you will be able to train your own agents to do the laborious parts of your job like formatting documents or creating relevant content. Getting insights from data of various modalities (text, presentations, videos) is already instantly available. You can query the database for additional insights using language models.
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(Check out Notions Data to Graph/Chart use-case -
You will also be able to hire out your agent on a subscription plan - if your agent does the required job well you can probably hire out different instances of that agent to different companies.
(Check out Relevance AI's BOSH BDR Agent -
There will probably be a super Agent app that allows for multiple agent connections from all your various apps like Instagram, X.com, Twitter, Reddit - and your agent will present the data to you in a format that you choose.
(Check out how this Indian entrepreneur built a platform that integrated all forms of messaging into a common interface -
I recently heard a Lex Friedman podcast with Pieter Levels of Levels.io in which they discussed that the previous paradigm change occurred when apps started working well on smartphones and not when we got smartphones.
(Check out the whole podcast here, it's really interesting -
In the context of the 'Gen(AI)ssance' I think a similar explosion is on the precipice. Each individual person now has knowledge and time available to them.
Will any company offer personal agents that work perfectly and enable this shift for language models?
How long is it before we see a true 'UNO-Corn' (a one person billion dollar company) ?
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