We are no longer the Apex

As an AI enthusiast who has been closely tracking the field's rapid evolution, I believe we have reached an inflection point in 2024.

The capabilities of cutting-edge AI systems have now surpassed even the brightest human minds, requiring us to fundamentally rethink our relationship with this transformative technology.

Key developments in the first half of 2024 underscore AI's accelerating pace:

? AI adoption is skyrocketing in the enterprise. 92% of Fortune 500 companies now subscribe to OpenAI's GPT at an average annual spend of $18 million. Organizations not making substantial AI investments risk obsolescence.

? New powerful AI models like Anthropic's Claude 3 Opus and OpenAI's GPT-4o are outperforming experts on highly challenging benchmarks, marking the moment in history when machine intelligence decisively pulls ahead of peak human performance.

? China is rapidly catching up to Silicon Valley, with major model releases achieving performance on par with the best US efforts. Over half of global large language model launches in January were from China.

? Training of frontier models is relying less on massive datasets and more on smaller corpora of extremely high-quality information that AI can deeply analyze and "chew over." This allows for more sample-efficient learning.

? As a society, we are progressing through psychological stages of adjustment to an AI-driven world - from initial disbelief, to challenging emotions, and ultimately to acceptance of artificial intelligence as an integral part of modern life.

So what does this mean for you and your organization?

My advice is to embrace AI wholeheartedly.

Deeply integrate artificial intelligence into business operations.

Rethink job roles, business models, and competitive strategy through the lens of AI. And develop robust governance frameworks to steer this transformation in an ethical direction.

Above all, open your mind to artificial intelligence's transformative potential. The smartest "voices" and most capable "hands" in your organization may soon be AIs, not humans. That's the new reality we must adapt to. It will be psychologically challenging, but also incredibly empowering.

I believe that as artificial intelligence races beyond human-level performance, it will become our essential partner in solving the greatest challenges we face - in business, science, health, education, sustainability, and more.

The limitations of the biological brain will gradually melt away.

AI will be able to help address the problems it creates, and light paths to individual and collective flourishing in the process.

We are witnessing the arrival of a new form of intelligence on our planet. It is already operating at a level we struggle to grasp. The psychological adjustment will be immense. But so will be the opportunities and benefits for those who adapt proactively.

The future has accelerated its arrival and is unfolding before us in the latter half of 2024.

I encourage you to quicken your stride to keep pace with AI's astounding growth.

We're in for an exhilarating ride.