It may be wishful thinking to hope that AI will simply slot in to our current toolsets, making us more efficient at work. Even the current beta tools enable an order of magnitude increase in efficiency. Skill in doing a single thing will simply have no value. Instead, we will need skills in ‘multilearning’, or the ability to learn and deploy new knowledge and skills quickly. Very quickly.
Week notes: 3 July 2023
This week I began my research into individuals and teams who are able to 1) learn about new techs quickly while 2) discerning the impacts and applications in their domains while 3) starting to implement. How do they learn, select and adapt so quickly and effectively, while others do not? If you’re reading this and you are (or you know) someone or some team or startup that is learning, adopting and adapting new techs exceptionally fast, I’d love to talk.
Week notes: 26 June 2023
When technology advances quickly, remaking work and economies, how do we (individuals, groups, orgs, communities) determine the skills and capabilities needed to compete? And if specially convened panels of industry experts cannot answer this question, can we create alternative communities, entities, services and experiences to fill the void and enable young people in particular to find answers?
Week notes: 19 June 2023
This week I am thinking about the innovation that isn’t. The innovation that doesn’t happen. I don’t mean innovation that fails. I mean innovation that simply doesn’t occur. The innovation that isn’t. Might machine and social learning reverse the stagnation of ideas?
Week notes: 12 June 2023
In week notes this week, reflections on the value of continuous discovery habits for universities making online courses; the fascination of dissonance between present reality and future tech trajectories; and a minor personal milestone.
‘You looking at me?’ Why higher education needs to discover product discovery
‘Engagement’ needs to be redefined, with institutions as the subject, not learners. Institutions need to engage, not learners. Higher education needs a product mindset restart. This has never been more important. Just look at our record: 10 plus years of fads (MOOCs), hallucinations (microcredentials), triviality (badges) and general failure to bring meaningful, credible new products that meet learners’ needs in this challenging contemporary world.
Week note: 5 June 2023
So I’m resuming week notes a few years after stopping due to time and other pressures while working on an intense work assignment. I’m aiming to reflect on books, ideas, projects, experiences and interesting things happening in domains of interest to me including education, technology and especially XR and AI, innovation and (social) enterprise, change and transformation, facilitation, and outside interests like art and cycling.
ChatGPT and friends
Yesterday (23 March 2023) I attended a KnowledgeMakers workshop organised by KMi (Knowledge Media Institute) at The Open University in Milton Keynes titled ‘ChatGPT and Friends: How Generative AI is Going to Change Everything.’
Google introduces NeRF 3D to Maps
Google has begun to roll out Immersive View, using advances in AI and computer vision to fuse billions of Street View and aerial images, to create a immersive, digital model of the world with local data layered on. Immersive View combines 360 video with neural radiance fields (NeRF), an advanced AI technique, transforming ordinary pictures …
Why do scaleups shed diversity?
Over time I have noticed that as startups scale up, the teams become less diverse. Why is this, and can it be prevented? Higher education has a problem with diversity and particularly in attracting applicants from Black, Asian and other minority communities. This is well documented. But in my experience of internal (corporate) startups over …
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