#24: AI in the Workplace, OpenAI Funds Entrepreneurs, and Google Unveils New AI Projects

While our Institute focuses on AI in the marketing world, some of
the biggest companies in the world are finding AI applications for
the business world and our personal lives. Artificial intelligence
will be, and already is, embedded in our world. What are the big
players working on? Mike and Paul discuss this on this week’s
podcast.  This episode kicks off discussing consulting firm
Deloitte, who recently published a rundown of how AI for work
relationships could be the next big thing in your office. Deloitte
says that AI can “analyze human interactions during and after an
event to generate personalized, confidential recommendations at an
individual and organizational level to help improve human
interactions at work.”  They give a hypothetical example to
illustrate the point: Imagine a near-future workplace where AI
recommends how you should write a diplomatic email to two leaders
pulling you into a nasty turf war. In this scenario, AI could
recommend appropriate language and courses of action to resolve the
dispute. It’s an interesting discussion on the opportunities and
challenges, including the five areas Deloitte feels AI will have a
big impact on work relationships. Next, OpenAI, the creators of
GPT-3 and DALL-E 2, just launched a program to fund and support
founders creating transformative AI companies. The program is
called Converge. According to the company, it is a
“highly-selective, five-week program for exceptional engineers,
designers, researchers, and product builders using AI to reimagine
products and industries.” Participants receive a $1 million equity
investment from OpenAI’s Startup Fund. They also get early access
to OpenAI models and programming tailored to AI companies. In
addition, they get workshops, office hours, and events with AI
practitioners. OpenAI says it’s motivated by “the belief that
powerful AI systems will spark a Cambrian explosion of new
products, services, and applications.” Mike and Paul discuss why
hungry entrepreneurs are critical to the success and adoption of
AI.  Lastly, this past week, Google revealed a handful of
incredible AI projects that it’s been working on, and they provide
a glimpse of the near future of AI. These reveals break down into
two broad categories: AI for social good and generative AI. On the
social good front, Google revealed ideas such as AI for wildlife
tracking, AI for flood forecasting, an AI-powered maternal health
app, and an AI model that speaks the world’s 1,000 most-spoken
languages. On the generative AI side, Google revealed self-coding
robots, where robots can autonomously generate new code. Mike goes
through a cool example, and they discuss the implications of these
new projects.  Listen to this great conversation with our
team, and stick around for the end of the podcast for the
rapid-fire discussion at the end!