What Next?

Lisa McCarthy, CEO and co-founder of the Fast Forward group, and author of Fast Powered: Five Power Principles to Create the Life You Want in Just One Year on managing stress and achieving fulfilment in the workplace and in life. Lisa who has spent 25 years at prominent media companies including Univision, Viacom, and CBS, driving billions in sales revenue, has used her own experience of the toll of high pressure to develop a system to create success and satisfaction. Named a ‘woman to watch’ by Advertising Age, and listed on Crains New York Business 40 under 40, she argues that managers need to put the emphasis on coaching and mentoring, and less on bossing. The constant upgrading and improving of our selves, she says, will help us to seize opportunities, which will be even critical in the workplace of the future.

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Richard Townsend, CEO of Workforce Learning on talent, culture, and the augmented human. His predictions are based on a rich pedigree in communications, from humble beginnings at DMB&B Advertising to launching the digital division of Starcom Mediavest. But it’s his pivot into online learning at Circus Street that has shown him a future where AI will deliver the technological uplift to let us become better at being human. He argues that in a world of AI, everybody will have their own personal chief of staff, research assistant, and designer sitting alongside them as they work. The result, he says, is a future of problem solving, creativity, leadership while the machines get on with the rest of the job.

Rudina Seseri, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Glasswing Ventures, shares her insights on the future of Artificial Intelligence based on 19 years of investing and operational experience in high-growth AI and Frontier Technology companies. She argues that large language models will become

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On LLMs becoming smaller

LLMs for Dummies by Rex Woodbury: https://www.digitalnative.tech/p/llms-for-dummies?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

Phi-1.5: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/phi-15-ai-textbooks-groundbreaking-new-way-train-llms-rudina-seseri-acbre/?trackingId=xFExcDnPTyuisRwZdmCs%2BQ%3D%3D

On Meta's AI strategy

Meta AI roadmap: https://www.wsj.com/video/events/metas-ai-roadmap/D8AD06F0-BCB8-4615-8FF6-B7DD3E1CE228.html

On AI trough of disillusionment

Biden EO on AI: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2023/10/30/executive-order-on-the-safe-secure-and-trustworthy-development-and-use-of-artificial-intelligence/

SuperReturns: https://globalfinance.connectmeinforma.com/community/superreturn/articles/five-essential/details