The replacement frame, and why it predicts badly
Where the automation story comes from, what it got right, and the specific places it has been a poor guide to what actually happened.
Speaking topic
An AI keynote about raising the ceiling on what people can do
The talk he gives most: where AI has raised what one person can do, with examples from his own work, for a room that has already heard the replacement story.
The room
Mixed audiences. Conference main stages, all-hands, and any room where the technical and non-technical are sitting together.
- Formats
- Conference keynote, TED style talk, Masterclass, University session
- On this subject
- 2 talks you can watch
- Shaped to you
- Written for your audience and your programme
What it covers
The beats of the talk
Rewritten for each audience, so the order and the examples change. These are the subjects it covers.
Augmentation with the receipts
Systems that raised the ceiling for the person using them, drawn from work he has done himself.
What this changes on Monday
How the framing changes which projects a team picks up, which it drops, and how it describes them internally.
What AI means for people
“More work worth doing, not less.”
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For students, educators and public audiences
Why him
He is an AI and software architect at IBM and has given versions of this talk since 2017, including at TED@IBM and on the nasscom main stage.
On this subject
Watch him give it
Questions
What organisers ask about this one
It can be either. It does not need code to land, and he adapts the depth to the room. Tell him who is in the audience and he will tell you which version he would give.
Yes. This is the talk he gives most often to mixed rooms, because it is about how to think about the technology, and it needs no code to follow.
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