Chatbots, Knowledge Graphs, and the Agents Accelerating Enterprise Creativity in Renaissance 2.0

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In Part One of this two part series, I focused on the emerging Renaissance 2.0 of individual creativity, now vividly being unleashed by AI (artificial intelligence). From the collapsing barriers to entry for independent filmmakers, to the new tools for students and educators, to the interactive AI games my son Levi is inventing, the endless examples defy both the scared and the scaremongers. When Byron Reese and I concluded our article, The 4 Billion-Year History of AI’s Large Language Models, we wrote, “Our best is yet to come”, and that is clearly on display almost anywhere you go looking for it.

Today, however, I want to go back in time to that original Renaissance 1.0, which began in the late 14th century. History may not repeat itself, as a sage once opined, but it does often rhyme. So my analogy between the two points of history is much more than a casual metaphor. Then as now, the first Renaissance was a revolution in mathematics and calculation that changed the world – birthing even capitalism itself. It’s not a stretch to suggest that the lessons of that transformation might be the best lens we have on the ways our institutions – from business to education to government – will be transformed by the convergence of statistical data and complex mathematics, otherwise known as Large Language Models, or LLMs. Most importantly, there’s a glimpse hidden in that era that produced Da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Machiavelli. Looking backward at that moment even suggests how today’s capitalism itself will be radically renewed as we look forward.

If readers who know me suspect I am winding up to a pitch for Conscious Capitalism and the concept of the Public Benefit Corporation, they are right. But it’s much bigger than that. What I brazil whatsapp number data want to focus on are the concentric circles of creativity: from those of individuals which we discussed in Part One, to the explosion of collaborative creativity of teams, firms, and ultimately even our modes of nation-state governance. We need to invent many new institutions in some cases; old ones we need to reimagine in new ways. We are fast doing so, but we also need to speed up.

Meanwhile, as the fortunes would have it, I wrote my first of these two essays a few days before heading out two weeks ago to Vancouver for the annual TED Conference, a supercharged masterclass of AI discussion (and many other topics). Interestingly, the dystopian narrative regarding AI had largely calmed down as compared to TED2023, held shortly after the infamous moratorium call. This year’s gathering was entitled “The Brave and the Brilliant”, and both categories of thinker were there in force.

The first category was certainly led by my good friend and fellow Austin resident, entrepreneur and philanthropist Daniel Lubetzky, whose long-time PeaceWorks initiative shattered stereotypes and is doing so much to counter the hate we see on display, sparked by the horror of Hamas’ 10/7 attack on Israel and all that has ensued in the Hamas-Israel war (I wrote my most important piece of 2023 on 11/7, the one-month anniversary of 10/7.) “When society is falling apart, the only way out is for all of us to build together,” Daniel told the TED assembly to a standing ovation. Daniel was here to promote his new Builders of the Middle East initiative, a continuation of his long-time work, which has accelerated since 10/7. I hope TED posts his urgent presentation online soon. It deserves its place online alongside the hopeful and inspiring discussion between two brave peace activists in these dark days, Israeli Maoz Inon and Palestinian Aziz Abu Sarah, which was the first to go live following the in-person event. TED2024 opened with their exchange and you could hear a pin drop in the audience.