Bonus: Easy Future Conversations 5: The wine you like, the apps you use and where we get our ideas
Graeme Codrington's Future of Work
Release Date: 08/29/2022
Graeme Codrington's Future of Work
ChatGPT, CoPilot, Llama, Bard, Grok and all the other Generative AI Large Language Models have demonstrated that we can engage with our technology using natural language. Now we need to get our devices to understand the heuristics of requests and actions we ask them to do. <P>Rabbit R1 was launched to much fanfare in December 2023, as a first model of a device that can do this. I doubt it can deliver yet, but it's definitely heading in the right direction. And I love their coining of the LAM: Large ACTION models. <P>I think that Apple's AI play later this year will integrate Siri...
info_outline Throwforward Thursday 142: Water WarsGraeme Codrington's Future of Work
As the world gets more and more water stressed, those who control water supplies in rivers, lakes and dams, will exercise more power and restrict access to water to those downstream. This could lead to conflict - legal and physical - that is both internal and crosses national boundaries. Some countries may even use the need for water as a reason to invade a neighbour. Whether as an individual or a business, or a region or country, we need to have a plan for water security that is equitable, agreed on by everyone, and future proof. We cannot live without water.
info_outline ThrowForward Thursday 141: No More PlasticGraeme Codrington's Future of Work
We have to do this! In our lifetimes we have to find a way to end the use of plastic as we use it now, so that we stop adding more toxins and pollution to our planet.
info_outline ThrowForward Thursday 140: No More Ships at SeaGraeme Codrington's Future of Work
Imagine a world in which Rogue Waves made the oceans too dangerous for ships to sail, and we had to stop cruise liners and container ships from sailing. It would change our world as we know it. <P>It is an extreme and alarmist scenario, with one of the worse cases for the impact of climate change and global warming. It's designed to keep us thinking about what needs to be done to mitigate the impact of extreme weather on our world.
info_outline ThrowForward Thursday 139: Robot Window WashersGraeme Codrington's Future of Work
It's not a horror movie, with spider-like robots clambering around the outside of buildings. This is the future of the $40 billion window cleaning industry, using robots. They can do more than clean, though - they do real-time, ongoing analysis of the external skin of the buildings, keeping a record of issues and greatly enhancing preventative maintenance. <P>This is just one example of the potential of predictive data analytics when applied to real world objects that are instrumented and analysed. How might you be able to these data analytic ideas to your business?
info_outline ThrowForward Thursday 138: Chatbot sued by ownerGraeme Codrington's Future of Work
A company is suing its own AI chatbot for providing misleading information to a client. I wish I could make up a headline from the future that was better than this - its actually a real story from February 2024 involving Air Canada. <P>The practical lesson is that we need to be careful of automating our workforces, rather than augmenting them. People who use AI are better than people who don't. AI, though, is better when it is used by people than when it is left on its own. <P>Learn from Air Canada's mistake.
info_outline ThrowForward Thursday 137: AI Selected Life-Partner (A Valentine's Day suggestion)Graeme Codrington's Future of Work
Would you trust an AI-driven algorithm to help choose your life partner? If people were honest about the data they entered into these systems, and genuine in their desire to find a true life-partner match, this would definitely be an improvement on the basically random, luck-based most of us rely on. <P>Happy Valentine's Day... from the Love Algorithm. ❤️
info_outline ThrowForward Thursday 136: Workplace MonitoringGraeme Codrington's Future of Work
In the future, we will use smart devices and even implants to monitor our every move, maybe even our thoughts too. How will we use this data? <P>It could be for Big Brother style management of our lives, or it could be for our benefit and wellbeing. That will be up to us. <P>This is actually not a prediction about the future, but rather a scenario to help us think about what we should be doing in our world and our workplaces now.
info_outline ThrowForward Thursday 135: Hyper-personalised Peak-performance workplacesGraeme Codrington's Future of Work
Imagine arriving at the office, and the lighting and aircon are just perfect, there's exactly the right ambient noise, the desk is set up perfectly, the food and drinks easily available are precisely what you need... everything is set up just right to ensure you can deliver your best work. <P>This is the workplace of the future that adjusts in real time based both on who you are and what you're trying to achieve in the next few hours. <P>Elite sportspeople already use data analytics to craft the perfect work environment for themselves. We need to use the same approach...
info_outline ThrowForward Thursday 134: Democracy in the workplaceGraeme Codrington's Future of Work
Imagine we voted for the managers of our teams at work. Imagine our workplaces worked like democracies should. <BR><BR>Today's episode has a bit of an activist and culture war tone about it, as I suggest that one possible future for corporations is being more democratic. You see, here's the problem: while the corporation is the cornerstone of Western democratic capitalism, there is almost no democracy in our workplaces at all. We don't vote for who our managers should be. We don't vote for how much we should be paid. We are hardly even consulted about strategy or what products and...
info_outlineApologies for the delay in releasing these Easy Future Conversations to the podcast. Here are a few bonus episodes to catch up with the YouTube feed.
We are half way through the conversations I had with my friend, Carel Nolte, about the future of investing, what he's learnt from his work at Easy Equities, and our love of wine.
Carel hijacked this segment by forcing me to try a Rose wine (he believed he had found one that I would like). So we start with the wine, but then Carel expertly leads the conversation into a discussion about the future of investing, how we decide what approach we should take with investing, and provides some insights into what his team at Easy Equities have found from the analysis of over one million trading accounts (including how they design their platform and constantly improve the user experience).
And, yes, we did have fun with this one...