The Promise of *AI* Automation of Everything

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Remeber when robots were going to do everything, and we were going to live life like the Jetsons? Well, Elon still thinks dancing robots are going to ship in volume next year. LOL. And let me know how that Roomba is working out for you? Or the Lawn Mower robot? For that matter, let’s talk about *agentic* ai, the newest buzz word from the buzz factory of AI. Anything to get us excited. Very little for us to actually chew on.

Let’s talk about where we are going. AI is not getting more “itelligent.” Sure, it’s getting faster, but that also comes with problems. Data centers are already having problems keeping up with the growth to keep AI in NVIDIA processors to build anime icons and plastic bubble filed mini-figures. There are several motions in AI that are being harvested and there are a lot of opportunities today, that are missing from the roadmap.

The Enterprise Level AI

Many large companies are prohibited from using any AI! Read that again. A source inside Verizon explains how they can’t access any OPENAI sites from within their corporate network. Here’s why. AI is known for sucking any data into its LLM, even if that data is sensitive, or secret, or intellectual property. So Verizon won’t let ANY of it’s employees use AI. That just means they are using it from their own computers while working from home or over the weekend.

When you look on LinkedIn, AI is the hot topic. BUT, for most of us the conversations are about things like “ethics” and “performance” and the newest versions of YADDA YADDA. Or, for most of us, no information at all.

The Small Business and AI

SMBs can really use AI to its maximum capacity, but they are not. The information is there. A few brave leaders are jumping in. Most are not. I have a small startup CLICKTHIS.AI that helps small and medium businesses add AI to their marketing and sales mix. It’s simple stuff, mostly using OpenAI and GPTs.

The Creative Worker and AI

Marketing, writing, graphic design, even coding are all under attack from AI. But it’s not something to fear. It’s a process that we need to embrace.

Here’s the truth: AI NEEDS HUMAN AUGMENTATION.

No, AI is not going to wakeup anytime soon, no matter what Elon or the venture capitalists tell you. It’s a good story. It’s not happening. Here’s why. AI is not evolving, it’s getting faster, but that’s about it. It’s not creative. It’s derivative. It can digest tons of images or texts and spit out summaries, facimilies, and direct rippoffs (part of the reason corporate America can’t adopt AI at the moment).

And the big powers at the top have oriented the AGI or Artificial Generalized Inteligence around income and revenue. When an AI can generate a certain amount of income, that is considered AGI by the large corporations. That’s an interesting viewpoint, but it’s WRONG.

AGI is about the soul. It’s about spirits in the machine. That’s not happening. No matter how fast the quantum computers take us. AI needs a leap. Needs a quark. I’ve joked about a breakthrough AI process called THC. It gets the AI and transformers stoned so they make random and “creative” leaps. Something an actual AI cannot do. AI is just math. That’s one of the reasons it’s so good at music. It’s not soulful music, but it’s not bad.

AI will never create a Jack Kerouac novel, or a U2 song. It will riff on U2, copy ideas and syntax from Kerouac’s novels, but the soul is not there. AI cannot determine what is good and human and what is merely a correct or acceptable answer.

When considering the word LOSS, for example, AI will have a complete non-human take on the definition and idea behind “loss.” It may interpret the word to be mathematical. It may even jump to the color blue or depression. But the word loss has no context for a robot.

HUMANS ARE CONTEXTUAL STORY TELLERS.

As Rachel in Blade Runner would demonstrate, robots can be beautiful, intelligent, and almost human. The beautiful robot Deckard fell in love with had no soul. No life. Just a beautiful smile and the whispered memories planted to give her a little bit of context. As humans, we are building context, spinning up our own personal/human story. An AI has nowhere near the capacity of the human brain. There are not enough data centers yet to hold all of your memories. So, how would an AI even begin to contemplate the beauty of the word loss?

AI is at a loss when it comes to emotion, context, the alternative means of words. Mostly, however, it’s void intelligence. It’s a Cliff’s Notes version of the human experience. It will never create a work of art. It will never have an original thought. A creative spark for AI is a prompt and a library of images, texts, and sounds, to swizzle into something resembling human creative output.

My next book CR8V + AI will explore the potential for creative collaboration between humans and AI. The human augmented AI palette is wide open. Let’s expore it together.