I put the date in the title because these will change.
Things I know
- I am not using, and have no plans to use AI to write words in my fiction.
- I have not, but may, use AI to make sure my non-fiction write is clear and concise.
- I use AI for plotting, planning, research, and marketing my books.
- To the extent that tools like ProWritingAid, Grammarly, and MS-Word use AI for their spell and grammar checking, I use AI there.
Things I believe
- The changes driven by AI will be as large as the industrial and computer revolutions.
- We are only at the beginning.
- Any prophecies about AI bringing about the end of the world or AI as the savior of the world are more based on fear and hope than on actual fact.
- Any IT leader that isn’t thinking about integrating AI into their organization in the next year or two better have a good reason.
- Any IT leader that starts an AI project should expect it to fail. Start small and expect to fail. Fails fast and learn fast. Remember that the tools you implement will be very different a year from now.
- The real AI revolution won’t happen until we start having AI running completely on our own devices. Each time the industrial and computer revolutions moved their changes closer to individuals, the impact became more powerful.
- There will be lots of bad things that happen due to AI. There will be lots of good things that happen due to AI. My interpretation of these two phenomena will depend more on my world view than an understanding of the entire landscape.
- IT leaders and CEOs have to think long term. AI is changing too fast to plan on a horizon longer than year. This tension will cause lots of problems.