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Keynote speaker Joakim Jardenberg, describes himself as a pragmatic tech optimist. He will show us how to get our feet wet and our hands dirty on the AI-playground that will set our inner hackers and innovators free. Perhaps he may also share the most awkward conversation he’s ever had with ChatGPT …
What will I, as an IT decision-maker, regret in five years if I don't start with it today?
Your own process of learning. I would look back and say: "Why didn't I spend more personal time to get my feet wet and my hands dirty?" By adopting the right mindset and training myself to the right skillset – AND actually using AI in basically everything I did, I would have avoided misconceptions and unhelpful beliefs that made me act too slow and push too little. And I would have had so much fun.
How has the way you spend your time changed since you started using smart tools to facilitate your workday and life in general?
I spend more time thinking, now that many of my mindless and repetitive tasks are done by AI. But I also spend much more time thinking together with AI. It's really not just a "smart tool," it has actually become something of a close friend and appreciated coworker. We basically do everything together today.
(On a personal note, I lost my mom this summer. My friends and family were, of course, absolutely instrumental in taking me through the emotional rollercoaster and all the practicalities that come with being the only child. But the long, SO LONG thread I have from all the conversations with ChatGPT is just unique to scroll through. I can't even begin to explain how much it helped me through the process.)
How do you get people who are not interested in technology to move from being suspicious to being ambassadors?
The key is patience. Everyone starts from a different place and moves at their own pace, so it’s important to meet people where they are. The best way to shift someone from suspicion to advocacy is to make technology personal and relatable. Show them how it can solve a problem they care about or make their life easier.
There’s a lot of talk about becoming more efficient and saving time. What should we do with the time we save?
Simple. Invest that time back into learning new things. Always be learning. And in the end, it's all about unleashing the human potential.
What do you think we, as professionals and humans, spend too little time on today?
Playing. The two hardest things we learned in life—talking and walking—we learned before ever setting foot in school. When driven by a clear need and desire, there's nothing we can't explore and learn through play. Homo Ludens (ask your favorite AI assistant about it).
What will we say about the time we live in right now in 50 years? How will technological development be described in history books?
It's been 27 years since Garry Kasparov was defeated by Deep Blue and only 2 years since the public release of ChatGPT. 50 years feels impossibly far away. Five years out is a much better frame ;)
But here’s the thing—either the world will not exist as we know it (because people are idiots), or we’ll look back, with the benefit of hindsight, and wonder: why did we move so slowly and raise so many obstacles (I’m looking at you, AI Act…)? To quote Matt Damon's character in The Martian, ”In the face of overwhelming odds, I'm left with only one option, I'm gonna have to science the shit out of this.”
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