Things you weren't expecting to hear...like "controlling robot dogs with your mind"... why that matters to business
Toby Eduardo Redshaw
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This is just one more example of how fast technology is accelerating (and along with it science). See the real example at the end of this short article on robot dogs controlled by your mind.
The real alert here is business, leadership, and boards need to drive a continuous improvement paradigm around agility. It might be the key sustainable competitive edge in a tech-infused, fast-changing world. Also imperative to have an effective innovation radar to make sure one doesn't get technologically leapfrogged. The other risk is that a competitor creates a new model using new tech that kills your model.
Agility and winning cost structure go hand in hand, so an added bonus.
That's why purposeful progress on agility is the best offensive/defense.
In times of great change like when the telegraph and railroads networked parts of the world many that innovated at the model level had the biggest wins (and killed the incumbents)... like that Rockerfeller guy. So leadership/boards should not just review strategy and strategic capabilities (like tech) they should think through business model design/revolution...and again, that agility thing.
This period, including the Fourth Industrial Revolution, will be 100x more disruptive than the one Dickens wrote about.
Way back in the olden days when we were first launching 5G (i.e. 2017), things like ChatGPT, Federated Ai, Hyperscale Hyperspeed Data were seldom heard of (in part because two of those three hadn't been born yet).
ChatGPT and Large Language Models (LLM) will do a hundred new things. At a model level if they can become volitional within set contexts they can kill search (not replace it), change commerce and disrupt advertising. They can also anchor a new HCO (Human Capital Optimization) space that will eat the HCM players. How man undiscovered caves are there? The future of ChatGPT is like that.
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Hyperscale/Hyperspeed Data, Federated AI and Edge Compute may be even be more disruptive, albeit less buzzworthy. Also, look at LLM integrated knowledge / cumulative IQ / co-creation platforms (like Crowdsmart).
The role of the CIO must be to show the rest of the leadership team and the board the LOWP for tech. The Land of What is Possible. To do that, they need a playpen where they are 'playing/testing/dabbling with the new tech. To start, you should have someone a bit geeky from every major division and function at your firm assigned to a ChatGPT/LLM virtual team burning a good portion of their week getting a deeper understanding and a dirt-under-the-fingernails awareness of what this can do and how the space is evolving. They will percolate up ideas. Some will flame out others will be good. Give them medals for both.
The robot dogs controlled by your mind are coming. If that's true what is just over the horizon may be coming for your business...
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2 年Totally agree, now if it could only help you improve your golf game. ??
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2 年I said this in a paper in 2015: We will move beyond just data analysis and clever math, machine learning, predictive analytics, etc. We will watch networks of human and synthetic data behave, and that behavior will create new questions and opportunities
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2 年Also, that dog connecting system is built with a Raspberry Pi 4 computer ...you can get that on a single board with Wifi and 1G of RAM for about $40 if buying in anything close to bulk ... the unit cost of compute, storage and connectivity has gotten so low it is at a tipping point...more acceleration
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2 年Tobster! What a fun article. I need to put the robo exoskeleton on my pugs so I can get them to do what I want…. As my buddy Benn Konsynski taught me, and we wrote about, the “location” of cognitions and cognitors— human and machine — is going to be mind blowing. My guess is that in time we change our western view of consciousness “sitting somewhere behind your forehead” — as Alan Watts put it, to some more expansive view — like the Taoists. Organizations designed with this part individual, part collective cognition will be new indeed….