Exponential thinking for an Exponential age
I’m Vincent and I founded Brainstorm which involves taking a deliberate generalist perspective to every aspect of AI.
The Big Issue
AI is on an exponential ascent; making ever steeper, ever more transformative progress over ever shortening periods of time.
This exponentiality doesn’t only apply to the technology itself. The printing press was the last General Purpose Technology comparable to AI. Its original design remained virtually unchanged for over 200 years yet it enabled The Renaissance, The Reformation, The Enlightenment, Scientific Method & The Industrial Revolution. Whereas the capabilities of AI are evolving exponentially all the time.
The power and scale of exponentiality is almost incomprehensible to humans because for the last 250,000 years we’ve evolved to operate in a wholly linear environment where manageable, gradual, incremental changes take place over discrete, foreseeable, regular & consistent periods of time.
This vast difference between linear and exponential seriously impacts our capacity to both fully appreciate the challenges of AI and to envision the vastness of potential it affords.
This is the grounds for my committed generalist approach to all and every aspect of AI because to not do so is to ignore the fundamental nature of what AI is and does.
Slide from keynote speech by Jensen Huang NVIDIA CEO demonstrating exponentiality of computational power driving AI
“If you’re not actively disrupting your own enterprise somebody else is”
My hope is that the INSIGHT section offers evidence that I study deep, wide and often across the spectrum of AI whilst BUILD provides proof of my commitment to show don’t tell when it comes to demonstrating the possibilities and capabilities of AI.
I’m also very fortunate to be part of an amazing start-up working on some beyond the horizon innovative products produced by an exceptionally talented team which for now we’re very much keeping in stealth mode
A demonstration of exponential
AI’s recent exponential explosive advances in capability allowed me to create this entirely AI version of me with tech that simply did not exist just a few months earlier.
Further exponential advances allowed me to then seamlessly translate and synchronise my words into Mandarin which is just one of over 7,000 languages I no longer don't speak a word of.