Building an AI Startup could involve:
- Optimising the algorithms with which the language models are made, to reduce the cost of creating them in the first place.
- Creating more efficient hardware with which to process the language models.
- Training the language models
- Building software that uses the language models to create new markets, or to optimise current business delivery
It’s unlikely that I can do any of the first three, so the last one is the most obvious. For the moment I am just talking about Language Models here. Deep learning / data analysis is part of the AI game but for the moment I’m just focusing on Language Models, since they are all the rage.
We also want to look at image, video and audio creation; since these will significantly disrupt industries that use them day to day. My last job at homemove.com was an amazing example.
Beyond their excellent use of AI agents to enhance sales, one thing really stood out and that was an AI generated video that was created fairly quickly and inexpensively. It was TV commercial quality (ish). That was enough for me to know how disruptive this technology is going to be.
Long Term Aims
- We are each going to have a choice of Virtual Assistants. These will help us navigate through life, and will abstract away a lot of mundane tasks; and will act as a firewall (protection) from the exponentially increasing amount of information out there. It will use processing power to help us make sense of the enormous amount of information out there.
- Large corporations will also have virtual assistants for each employee. And each of those virtual assistants will likely be linked to each other, and especially those of their managers! As you go up the tree, there will be some sort of overriding ‘AI God’ that is monitoring it all, reporting on it, and most probably taking action.
- Governments and militaries, if not already, will have extensive AI monitoring systems. The capacity for summarising overall sentiment using just their ‘backdoors’ to Facebook, is quite frightening.
- I think buildings and cities themselves will have overriding AI brains. Call them AI agents if you like. They will be real-time systems and I suppose not much different from current software excepting they will have surveillance analysis, real-time number crunching and some use of LLMs.
I don’t think AI needs to always be done in a creepy or sinister way. AI surveillance if done correctly can actually anonymise privacy if we chose to want to do that. Currently the UK government is intent on facial recognition down to each person, much like the Skynet program in China.
Anyway, these are also just projections from within our own paradigm of life currently. We’re already seeing fully automated sea ports and internal logistic delivery centres, so I expect that fully automated companies driven solely by AI (with an overseer) to be running. The nature of a corporation as we know it may well change. But for the moment we just have to ride the wave and see what happens.
My long term aim is to find a niche within the Virtual Assistant / AI Agent market, both for individuals and for corporations. There are plenty of people jumping on this bandwagon already, but the market is going to be huge for it.
Anyway it’s been a long day, so will leave with just a short work diary below.
It’s a Saturday but I still managed to get some time in.
Invested today attempting to get some more Docker configuration fixed. Difficult when you are on a brand new tech stack, and stabbing in the dark with console logs. The main problem is the local stack doesnt seem to like my host environment and it’s become a slow process figuring out how to sort that.
Most of my time was spent on configuring the DXP software, which is an existing AI driven platform that I can help take over and run with. Ultimately it listens to RSS feeds and generates websites from it, but the technology there is adaptive to many other things and is built to scale.
That said, haven’t been able to get it configured so spun up an Ubuntu box on Digital Ocean with Gnome Desktop. Just about got it and running but its now maxed out at 100% CPU and I can’t login to it currently. Going to let it rest for a while, then come back to it.
I have some ideas now how to fix it.
Also Digital Ocean has its own AI Agent Capabilities. Something to look at in the future
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