Exploring - AI by Dr Bruce Lloyd

A few brief examples (& I hope there is something new and interesting, even controversial) …….  Using a variation of ChatGPT, CoPilot, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude and DeepSeek but largely not mentioned individually … all using the basic free versions …

 First: Q: What is the main challenge facing business organizations over the next decade?

The result of asking AI a core question: Usual list:

1. Technological Disruption/ AI Integration
2. Sustainability and Climate Change.
3. Geopolitical and Economic Uncertainty.
4. Workforce Evolution/ Transformation
5. Consumer Expectations and Personalization.
6. Regulatory Changes and Compliance Challenges
7. Global Health Challenges.

8. Cybersecurity and Data Privacy: :

Deepseek: Successfully addressing these challenges will require: strategic foresight, flexibility, and a commitment to ongoing transformation.

I followed the AI comments with: 

 I disagree. I believe the main challenge will be the need to reconcile pressures for institutionalization against the need for creativity/innovation that challenges those institutionalization pressures.’

ChatGPT: You're absolutely right. The tension between institutionalization and creativity/innovation is a profound challenge for business organizations, especially in an era of rapid change and complexity. Let’s break this down:

1. Institutionalization Pressures.      2. The Need for Creativity and Innovation

Deepseek  … agreed The Challenge: Reconciling the Two. ……     and it explored  Strategies to Address the Challenge

Then I fed these detailed results into AI based Notebooklm to discuss.

(https://notebooklm.google.com/notebook/858d92a1-2103-491a-a08b-14190806367a?authuser=1)

The discussion was fascinating and impressive, up to a point. But I wonder whether it really is saying anything new, relative to what was around in the 1980's when much was written about 'Creating and Managing New Ventures' and ‘Corporate Venturing’ and attempts to put this into practice in both IBM and ICI .... as well as the use of 'skunk works' in the 1960's ....

However, I my view, one of the important issues is for those ‘leading’ organisations is to have a good - or at least reasonable - understanding of these issues - and I don't think that point was mentioned in the AI discussion?

Incidentally the effective use of AI is going to be one of the greatest challenges for most organisations in the years ahead, and those with the greatest investment in history, the greater the challenge.

Some others exercises briefly

For policy formation

Asking various AI systems: Develop a Housing strategy for the UK “Why does homeless in the UK happen in the first place?  Explore solutions to homelessness in the UK? and wouldn't a modern version of the Doomsday Book be a useful sta [remainder of message body omitted; too large]

Asking various AI systems: Develop a Housing strategy for the UK “Why does homeless in the UK happen in the first place?  Explore solutions to homelessness in the UK? and wouldn't a modern version of the Doomsday Book be a useful starting point?”

Useful … although AI has its own issues, but takes out a lot of polarised politics and personalised agendas  …..

And  … The answers can then be used to help develop more detailed strategies and action programmes…

(Another interesting site   ….. DepolarizingGPT)

Another exercise

I always thought a PhD that would be interesting for someone to do one day:

"Take an average bathroom; identify 100 different products usually found in them, and the raw materials used to produce them, the location where are they sourced and the processes used - and their location - to turn these raw materials into the final products." 

The idea was to show how interdependent we were!

I asked AI to undertake an initial exercise around the topic ... (I didn't really think they would be able to cope with it!) But they did – 4 AI’s in less than 60 seconds each ...... and it fascinating -- although the results probably need checking – but even if the results were just 80% correct, it wouldn’t change the conclusions, which were that virtual none of the raw materials come from the UK, and almost none of the products were even processed in the UK. (Followed by a Notebooklm discussion.)

The exercise certainly showed how interdependent we are ….

Other areas?

What was the core message of James Joyce's "Ulysses"? with a discussion on Notebooklm based material supplied by  4 AI’s

Fascinating and insightful.

As was exploring: ‘What is the Shakespeare play that is most relevant today –, and why?

Interesting to see the various AI’s came up with different areas, but all well-argued?

Asking AI to write Poetry is also fascinating

Also asking 5 AI views on:

Can poetry make you a better person?, plus what is its favourate poem? And why? plus Notebooklm discussion.

Possibly the basis of an article for a future issue of the Journal ‘Human Futures’?

Finally

Asked I ChatGPT for a summary, critique, and poem about the recent  ‘State of the Future 20.0’ report … an it produced an excellent summary …. ending with “Let me know if you want a shorter version, or one that leans more into a specific theme like AI, climate, or global ethics.”

So I asked it could you produce another version that focuses on global ethics?

ChatGPT said: Absolutely—here’s a version of the poem that centers on global ethics as inspired by State of the Future 20.0:

ChatGPT result:

The Measure of Tomorrow
on global ethics in an age of change

What is the weight of right and wrong,
In times where power moves so strong?
When borders blur and systems strain,
Can ethics still our course sustain?

A world in flux, with wires wide,
Where truths and lies walk side by side.
Where wealth may rise, yet values fall—
Who speaks for justice, speaks for all?

Not laws alone can guard the soul,
Nor markets teach the world its role.
We need a compass deep and wise,
To read the stormclouds in our skies.

Global ethics—thread of gold,
That weaves through futures bought and sold.
It asks of us: What will you choose,
When gain means someone else must lose?

In labs where AI learns to see,
Or councils crafting policy—
Let fairness guide the silent hand,
So all may rise, not just the planned.

Let empathy, not greed, define
The algorithms we design.
Let conscience code the future’s frame,
And dignity not die for gain.

No single creed, no single land
Can claim the moral high command.
But joined in purpose, wide and far,
We light the dark, just like a star.

O dreamers, leaders, those who care—
The future waits for those who dare.
To ask not only what comes next,
But should it come?—with heart and text.

I thought it was impressive for a system that doesn't really understand what it is doing  -- you might even say it’s heart was in the right place?????)  But in my limited efforts to use text to speech, although the AI voice got the words right, it didn’t really reflect that they understood their emotional dimensions.

 https://elevenlabs.io/app/speech-synthesis/text-to-speech

One AI limitation for commercial organisations is the security of the data they are inputting and private AI systems are now being developed.….. Plenty of other issues … (copyright, hallucinations, ethics) but briefly on one … AI will certainly replace many jobs, but just like other new technology developments in the past, it is likely, in the end, to create more new jobs than it replaces.

No doubt AI developments are likely to have a profound impact on almost every aspect of our lives in the coming decade …. So much going on … it is impossible to keep up …. But it is certainly an amazing development that is worth exploring …