We have already moved into the age of AI. Every aspect of our modern work, life, economy, and interactions is gradually incorporating AI. Currently, we are witnessing Large Language Models (LLMs) produce outputs that would have taken days or many hours for the most skilled humans to complete. This level of efficiency from AI is transforming workflows where it matters most.
But what is the human advantage in this new world of AI? What can humans contribute? These were the questions I pondered over the past week. The answer seems clear: it's the ability to dream beyond what exists in the world. While AI can mix, remix, and forge new connections in countless ways, it takes human creativity to push the frontiers of knowledge, thinking, art, and innovation to develop new methods.
At Unusual. , I have been working on a new product we are due to launch next year. No number of prompts was enough to generate images of the product we envisioned. It was something that didn't exist in the world before for the AI to recreate, make sense of and understand. This experiment led me to my conclusions.
In the age of AI, our currency is ideas, insights at the forefront of science and knowledge, innovation underpinned by a complex understanding of the world that is innately human, and imagination to dream up realities that never existed before. This is how we can thrive in this new era and use this new form of intelligence to shape society and the environment in extraordinarily beneficial ways.
I am hopeful for humanity's capacity to embrace this new age of AI, with all its disruptions, risks, and benefits. What it requires from us is a fundamental trait of evolution: Adaptability.