Blog post #78

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I have spent five days out of the house. Thursday to Sunday on a trip, then a full-day workshop on Monday. Different rooms, different people, and very different views of AI.

I did not go to pitch anything. I went to take the pulse: how does the world outside my own bubble see AI, and how ready is it for the change that is coming?

What changed since last log

I have mostly built alone so far. Dockcam, the small apps, the games with Edwin. This week I put myself in rooms with other people and listened.

Three kinds of rooms:

• Enterprise. Enterprise architects from large tech companies, and consultants who work with big organisations.
• Academia. Workshops full of researchers, most of them curious about AI and few of them deep in it.
• Non-tech industries. People who use AI at work, or are asked to, and who look at it with some skepticism.

I also talked to other founders. Some had started companies and wound them down. Some had received funding from Vinnova.

What’s working

Listening instead of arguing. I made a point of not trying to change anyone’s mind. That goes for the skeptics too. I wanted to hear how they see it, not convince them.

Hearing how people explain AI. At the workshop, consultants and entrepreneurs described how they have worked with AI. The most useful part was not the tools. It was how they took the material down to something easy to follow for an audience that was mostly academics without a deep understanding of AI.

I also watched professional mathematicians break down the basic concepts and explain them from the ground up. The academic setting was used to explain ideas, put them on the table and discuss them. I took part in some of those debates and learned a lot.

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— Stefan