One of the provocative hand grenades I love throwing into a client’s foresight discussion is an example of an obscure industry and how it’s adopting a new technology or change.

In a recent strategy session I used the one about AI deciding if paintings were real or fake, here’s how it goes…

Imagine AI systems analysing brushstrokes, identifying patterns, and even attributing works to renowned artists.

AI excels at pattern recognition, making it really good at identifying stylistic nuances within an artist’s body of work. But all of this greatness is still affected by the quality and comprehensiveness of the data fed into AI systems. If the training data is flawed, then the conclusion has to be flawed.

The article goes on to say human judgment and experience remain invaluable in art authentication.

Factors like an artwork’s history, the artist’s known techniques, and even the subtle nuances of aged materials cannot be fully grasped by AI alone (yet).

By using the strengths of both, we create a more robust and reliable system for art authentication, while ensuring the irreplaceable human touch remains at the forefront.

Moral of the Story: The future of AI in art authentication lies in collaboration between human expertise and the growing potential of AI.

One of the Managers in the group summed it best by saying: Calm down! AI’s a tool we will absolutely use, we just need to figure the best uses for it for us and then figure out what’s left for our incredible wise humans to do.

Which is exactly what we did.

We designed a road map of intersecting and standalone business task descriptions (things the business does every day and some days), broke them down into tasks humans will likely continue to do into the future and then tasks technology of all sorts, including AI, might do in the next 1,2 and 5 years.

And just like that we have the beginnings of a great strategic plan. I’m really looking forward to the next instalment.

So, what does your 1, 2, 5 years human and technology task road map look like?

Let’s explore the future, together!

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