Memia Webinar 16th May 2025: The New AGI Strategic Landscape

Memia's Ben Reid will discuss the evolving impacts of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI or “powerful AI”) on organisation strategy as the technology continues to accelerate forward at an incredible pace. Topics to be covered: The 2025 AGI landscape: what is "AGI" ... various definitions, positions, exponential acceleration of technology development. When, if ever, will "AGI" arrive? Cutting through the hype to build an empirical model. Automation impacts: how much cognitive work will AGI be able to automate? Robotic impacts: how much physical work will robots equipped with AGI be able to automate? What's left over for humans? Overview of centralised-vs-decentralised power models currently underpinning AGI theories How do governments approach regulation of AGI? Can they even hope to? Scenario modelling... how could this all play out? Impact on organisation strategy: how to start preparing now for an uncertain future. The webinar will be 1 hour long with 30 minutes of presentation and then an opportunity for open discussion among participants.

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🔮Strategy note: 2025 AI Predictions

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Memia year in review 2024: counting the OOMs to Foom 🧮📈🤯

🌐The ChatGPT Search ^ Perplexity ^ Gemini "grounding" inflection point

Symbiotic Extropianism: 🌱/acc

"Symbiopianism", an alternative philosophy to the pure accelerationists

Dario Amodei essay: Machines of loving grace

AI to upgrade the future🆙 o1 arrives🍓 loopy➿ meanwhile in China 🇨🇳🚗🔋 whoosh urban gondola🚡 8,100 drones🎆 wind-powered cargo ship⛵ geoship🌐 polaris dawn👨‍🚀 #2024.37

BizBytes: Fast Forward Aotearoa, Navigating New Zealand’s Future with Exponential Technology - A Conversation with Ben Reid

In this episode from July, BizBytes podcast host Ant McMahon is joined by Ben Reid, author of “Fast Forward Aotearoa", his latest book which explores How Exponential Technology is Defining the Future of New Zealand… and What We Can Do About It.

Webinar recording: Ben Reid and Sam Ragnarsson HiveMind: AI Tools and Workflows AMA 14th June 2024

Webinar recording, summary, images, the works

Te Hono Speaker Series

Te Hono Speaker Series - Ben Reid - How AI and exponential technologies are defining the future of New Zealand’s economy ... and what we can do about it.

⏩Fast Forward Aotearoa Digital Book Release

How can New Zealand keep up with the exponential technology change that is shaping the world around us?

Memia 2023 year in review: Entering the new "AI-ocene" epoch

🗣️Memia speaking and media appearances roundup Jan-Jun 2023

The future with generative AI | free virtual Impact Session

What are some of the most mind-blowing developments in generative AI, and how are they changing the way we live, work and think? What skills and knowledge will be crucial for individuals and businesses to thrive in a world powered by AI? And as AI becomes more pervasive, what risks do we need to consider? Join Boma founder and CEO Kaila Colbin on Tuesday, 30 May for a virtual fireside chat about the future of Artificial Intelligence with exponential tech thinker and Memia creator Ben Reid. You’ll hear insights on the latest developments in AI, and why leaders need to become futurists and think about how these developments will impact our lives, communities, and nations.

Memia 2022 year in review: Welcome... to the [Meta-] Polycrisis🤯

Why Neuralink and Kernel are trying to solve the right problem at the wrong time

How do we get these different BCI products to talk to each other?

Polycrisis causal loops

(Global polycrisis, what global polycrisis?)🌄

Memia on Sunday 29-May-2022: ⏩Fast Forward Aotearoa

The "Axis of Kindness"

Has Jacinda Ardern created a new political Z-Axis to win the 2020 election?

Redistributive sovereign cryptocurrency - an alternative to a "wealth tax"?

Can wealth redistribution be designed into money to reduce economic inequality?

Memia 2021 wrapup: Top 10 themes from a year of living with constant uncertainty🦠💉😷

The outlook for 2022 is still uncertain… but not unhopeful.

Memia 2020 wrapup: Top 10 themes from a year of tumultuous change🌊💥🤯

As 2020 hurtles towards its overdue conclusion, here’s a wrapup of the highlights and overarching themes from 46 ⚗️emoji-filled🌏 Memia newsletter posts this year.