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The Next Wave for AI

We’re on the brink of three major shifts in Al: huge context windows, agent-based learning, and text-to-action capabilities.

Context windows are expanding sos rapidly that we can hand an Al something as large as a library of books and have it make sense of the whole set, even though it “forgets” in the middle, much like human short- term memory.

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Meanwhile, agents are emerging as LLMs that can learn by reading, testing, and reconfiguring their own understanding.

Finally, text-to-action is where you’ll be able to say, “Build me the next (XYZ),” and the Al will code, iterate, and deploy it, instantly at scale.

Put all three together, and we’re talking about an impact that dwarfs what social media did to the world.

Imagine everyone having a personal programmer: not just for silly projects, but for real innovation or disruptive tools.

Right now, these systems are limited by cost and complexity, but those barriers won’t last.

The moment they come down, you’ll see a wave of new creations roll out in mere hours or days, things no single developer or team could’ve spun up alone.

That’s the power of big context, self- learning agents, and instant action, all merging in the very near future.

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Life’s third act | Jane Fonda

Jane Fonda

“There have been many revolutions over the last century,  but perhaps none as significant as the longevity revolution. We are living on average today 34 years longer than our great-grandparents did — think about that. That’s an entire second adult lifetime that’s been added to our lifespan. And yet, for the most part, our culture has not come to terms with what this means. We’re still living with the old paradigm of age as an arch. That’s the metaphor, the old metaphor. You’re born, you peak at midlife and decline into decrepitude”.

But many people today — philosophers, artists, doctors, scientists — are taking a new look at what I call “the third act” — the last three decades of life. They realize that this is actually a developmental stage of life with its own significance, as different from midlife as adolescence is from childhood. And they are asking — we should all be asking: How do we use this time? How do we live it successfully? What is the appropriate new metaphor for aging?

I’ve spent the last year researching and writing about this subject. And I have come to find that a more appropriate metaphor for aging is a staircase — the upward ascension of the human spirit, bringing us into wisdom, wholeness, and authenticity. Age not at all as pathology. Age as potential. And guess what? This potential is not for the lucky few. It turns out, most people over 50 feel better, are less stressed, less hostile, less anxious. We tend to see commonalities more than differences. Some of the studies even say we’re happier.

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Video transcribed at https://www.ted.com/talks/jane_fonda_life_s_third_act/transcript?subtitle=en

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Dr Adam Fraser explains The Third Space

How to improve work life balance and be more agile in your behaviour by leveraging the transitional space in your day.

We spend our day rapidly moving between different environments and interactions. All too often we take the mood and mindset of the previous interaction into the next one. We might have a frustrating meeting and it affects how we behave in the next one, or we go through a crisis, and it derails our day, or we take a bad day home with us. Clearly, this has a negative impact on our performance.

Dr Adam will explore a three-step process to effectively transition between the different interactions, tasks and contexts that make up our lives, in a way where we leave the previous interaction behind and bring the right mindset to what we are transitioning into, so we can perform at our best.

We will also talk about how we transition from work to home in a way where we can disconnect from the day and be at our best for our home life.

Research Outcomes

In a number of organisations the content presented for this topic has led to:

  • 43% improvement in the mood in the home, practicing The Third Space® on the commute between work and home
  • 91% increase in Boundary strength (the ability to not let the previous interaction have a negative impact on the next interaction)

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Read more at https://dradamfraser.com/speaking-content/the-third-space