The end of the year is near. Time for the Sammatron’s top 10 trends in AI. And yes, the focus is purely on AI – because quite frankly that is the game when it comes to tech. It’s a revolution – and we are living in it. So here goes. Buckle up and be ready to have your mind expanded to the possibilities with high probability. Multi-Modal AI arrives: AI will move from something which generates a written answer, or generates a picture, or describes something, or computes, to something which does it all, at once and cross-references all the pieces of the puzzle. Yes, it will be just like us. Use ..read more

Within 12 months we’ll all have AI versions of ourselves. Well, not everyone, but anyone who wants to extend themselves to do more when they are not there. But here’s the kicker, we can all already do it – I have. Steve Sammartino AI now exists, and you can ask it anything you might ask me. The answers are pretty damn close to what I’d say. Since Open AI ‘s developer day 2 weeks ago. Anyone can now make their own AI. We are literally using AI to create AI. Congratulations! You are now an AI developer. And here is how you do it – You give it written instructions on how to behave. If you can tal ..read more

Prompt: Make a picture of a futuristic mind gym where people do a new kind of working out to keep their brains active in a world filled with AI Listen to Steve to read this post (5 min audio) An unused muscle will atrophy. It doesn’t matter whether it is a bicept or a brain.. In the age of automation, where AI shoulders an ever-increasing load of our cognitive toil, the concept of a ‘Mind Gym’ might become more than a novelty. Just as the Industrial Revolution led to a weird thing called a gymnasium – where we could work out – because work was no longer physical, the AI Revolution might call f ..read more

The recent update for Open AI which now includes visual recognition and description is quite astounding. I’ve now been given access to the Dalle3 and ChatGPT integration. I did some testing and it was mind blowing. It can create super realistic images, but the thing I find astounding is its ability to describe what it sees. A picture tells thousand words….. and AI now knows them all. But rather than have me explain what it does – let me just show you. I’ve put 3 picture below and the command to show you the output. There is also a drop box video link of each in case you want to see how it doe ..read more

Listen to Steve to read this post (8 min audio) – Do I sound like I write! Last week I watched an increasingly rare moment of linear, live television – The AFL Grand Final. As a long-time Collingwood fan, I rejoiced in an eventual victory and immediately thought about how much my late mother would have loved seeing her Magpies win. We could’ve watched it together, followed by hours of post-game discussions, analyzing it play-by-play. While I’ll never watch another game with my mother, the prospect of discussing it—or anything else with her—is closer than we think. How to Create a AI Twin It w ..read more

Listen to Steve to read this post (7 min audio) – it’s actually quite different and better than the written version below – give it a listen! Every now and again, you meet someone who changes your life. In my career, I’ve been lucky to meet a few people who put me on a new path. And they all have one thing in common – They were all younger than me. I call them my Reverse Mentors. Tom Carra I met in my last corporate job at Kraft Foods. We used to have pretend meetings to talk about business and entrepreneurship. Although we only worked together formally for a short period of time, we’d meet f ..read more

Listen to Steve read this post (8 min audio) – with bonus off piste commentary – give it a listen! Union membership in Australia is in steep decline – it’s now less than 15 per cent of the workforce compared with 60 per cent in 1960. The dramatic decline has been great for many industries, corporations, and investors; not so good for the middle class and wages. It’s pretty easy to tell how powerful a union is when their members go on strike. I can remember strikes by posties at Christmas, nurses, teachers, dairy farmers, railways, and bus drivers, to name a few. We noticed because they caused ..read more

pic above from home page of DreamGF.AI Listen to Steve read this post (10 min audio) – give it a listen! A colleague and good friend of mine was the Chief Marketing Officer of the world’s biggest brewer in the 2010s. He had challenges aplenty. The rise of craft beers, fragmentation of brands, the decline in alcohol consumption…. But when I asked him who his biggest competitor was, his answer surprised me: Tinder. He went on to say that dating apps like Tinder are a very clear substitutes for pubs, clubs, and bars. Many patrons have traditionally gone to these locations to meet people. And whil ..read more

Listen to Steve read this post (9 min audio) – Includes bonus ideas – give it a listen! Up until November last year, when the first useful ChatBot – ChatGPT – was released to the general public, almost everything on the internet was essentially ‘us’: human-centric content. Articles, posts, podcasts, chat forums, videos, images — all created, posted, described and tagged by people. This 30-years or so of deep and wide content which populated the internet has been the perfect training ground for Generative AI. All the breadth, nuance and insight of creative humans is what enabled the output to ..read more

Listen to Steve read this post (7 min audio) – those who listen get extra commentary – I go off piste! There’s a huge debate going around right now on whether or not Artificial Intelligence is actually ‘intelligent.’ While some say it poses a threat to our species, others argue that it is far less advanced than anyone realizes. Included in the latter cohort is AI expert Rodney Brooks, whom I believe to be among the best in his field. He contends that we’ve been vastly overestimating OpenAI’s large language models, asserting they are much ‘stupider’ than we assume. While that may well be true ..read more