How AI is 'Upskilling'—New Six Minute Video for Non-Technologists

Short video for presentations to non-technologists helping them quickly get on top of AI's skills mid 2024.

Non-technologists can be excused for finding it hard to work out exactly where AI is at. However, you need to get a good fix on AI’s current skill level so that you don’t either over or under-estimate the pace of its development. If you don’t understand where it is at, you are not in the best position to work out what you think about AI, how you might potentially use it and where it is headed.

Hearing random media stories about ‘AI can now do this or that’ is not the best way to get a good overview of AI’s current development. And anyway, you don’t have time to track all of those stories.

So, I have put together a six-minute video that I use in presentations and AI strategy workshops to give you a snapshot of where AI and robotics are at this moment in time. It is important to talk about robotics in conjunction with AI. Humans evolved as embodied intelligences. Our ability to act on the world was just as important in developing our intelligence as our intelligence in itself. So, this video covers both AI and its increasing robotic embodiment.

If you want to use this video in a presentation about AI feel free to do so but please let people see who produced it.

I’ve based the video around the concept of AI progressively ‘upskilling.’ Thinking about AI in this way lets us draw an analogy with a human progressively upskilling over time. The only difference between us and AI is that instead of it upskilling year by year as we tend to, AI is currently doing it month by month.

Thinking about AI’s development in terms of its ‘upskilling’ is just one of the concepts I discuss in my new book Surfing AI: 30 Fresh Terms and Smarter Ways of Talking About Artificial Intelligence. You can get more information about it here. If you want to get in touch, use my website, DrPaul.Online, or find me on LinkedIn.