Dr. James Martin

Dr. James Martin, an internationally known business consultant, lecturer, and author, is the founder of several companies, including WatchIT.com, a video education company. Martin... has written one hundred textbooks—more than any other living person.

In 2000, Martin released "After the Internet: Alien Intelligence", surmising the Internet would evolve into alien intelligences limited to niche domains like chemistry, medicine, etc. I thought Shazam was the first alien intelligence, no human being can match its ability to recognize music.

And I thought Elon's fears of AI were more about publicity and his ego. But last night I tried an experiment with ChatGBT that was absolutely incredible. I asked it to read this page and solve a set of linear equations and quantitative analysis about the evolution of work. Chat locked up for a bit.

Work Week Revisited - 2024
The more you know about the Second Industrial Revolution, the more you know about today’s Information Revolution. A visual history of the United States work week from 1860 to 1945. This graph is an aggregate of information I collected over the past thirty years. After the Civil War, the average

And then it continued on to this...

I understand Elon's concerns now. At least half of humanity couldn't give that answer. Absolutely incredible. Chat is more like a super-autistic human than a robot. And the biggest suprise...

We're gonna need a bigger weekend!