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The AI Mandate
A brief look at LinkedIn and the current job boards will quickly show that AI has become a mandatory skill for every job, from junior software engineers to CTOs. Obviously, AI is a big deal and it makes sense that companies are eager to leverage such a game changing technology - but is it the answer to all of our problems? Is it something that everyone needs to use, embed or adopt across the workforce?
Prison Break!
In the late 2000s, Apple disrupted the mobile device world with the introduction of the original iPhone. Handheld devices existed, like the Palm Pilot, and even pseudo-smart phones, like the RIM Blackberry, were available to the brave. But Apple's iPhone was different - it was the first mass-market mobile device that combined music, video, web and phone all in one incredibly built device. It was the first to introduce a physics engine that made a cold glass and metal device feel almost organic. It was also released without a critical component - an app ecosystem.
Pink Slips or Pay Raises?
In an interview with Geoffrey Hinton, an early innovator in AI, he gave a somewhat dystopian perspective on the pending joblessness that will come with more and more intelligent AIs. His argument was that, unlike the industrialization and mechanization of assembly lines, when the automation allowed for more production of scarce goods and so more jobs were created to manufacture more stuff, cognitive work doesn't scale like that and when one person can do the thought work of 10, with AI assistance, nine people will lose their jobs.