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Hi everyone. Here is Ricardo Vargas, and this is the 5 Minutes Podcast. OpenAI recently proposed an internal ranking of their AI systems based on five levels. I'm not one to discuss the technology in each of these levels, but I want to discuss the communication tool. Why did OpenAI release a five-level scale of their development? It's because most people are nonartificial intelligence experts. They are not on this raid and many times they are just afraid, okay, where do we are? Where are we going to? For example, will AI replace my job? Will AI make my work redundant? Will AI change the whole society? How will this happen, and how do I prepare myself? These are basic questions that I hear absolutely every day because people say, should I be scared about AI? Will AI just help me to work? How will it be? So, the five levels were a basic communication tool. For example, level one is the current chatbot level. This means if you are using ChatGPT today or Gemini or Microsoft Copilot, these are Level One, which is the first level we are in today. Level two is when these mechanisms are able to solve complex problems at a human level and human reasoning. This means, for example, if you put a reasonable, complex mathematical problem, it will be able to be solved by a high-level human. It means someone with, you know, a PhD, someone with a master's on that specific subject. So this is a very, very big step forward. Level three is the ability to take action. So let me give you an example. Let's suppose in the military industry where you have an AI system that detects, for example, an intrusion in your airspace. And this comes with the ability to press the button, for example, to, to, you know, to shoot a missile, for example, in the direction of that intruder. This is level three. It means the ability to take action, for example, the ability of an AI system to issue a prescription for you, such as a medicine. Level four is the ability to innovate. This is a very complex endeavor is to create something that does not exist. The ability to rethink. This is one of the biggest challenges, even for humans. So when you have a machine doing that, you are reaching level four. And level five it's basically the work of an organization. It means it can do the work as one organization means, uh, pay bills, receive money, deliver products, manufacturing, and everything, uh, through an AI system. OpenAI said that it is currently on level one and close to level two. What does this mean for us? I'm saying not in terms of a journey. It means it first gives us a perspective of where we are. Okay. We are on the initial steps of a five-step journey. what is the direction we are moving, and how do we prepare ourselves? So this is exactly, for example, there is a chance, and there is an ambition that at some point these machines and this process and these algorithms will be able to innovate. So you need to understand that this is a possible journey. I'm not saying we are there today, but it is a possible journey. It was the same when the US Department of Defense issued a five-level scale for terrorist attacks. This is not active today anymore, but it was, for example, the type of threat that you may potentially have. And this is a communication tool. This is not a technological tool. This is why, for example, many people question and criticize OpenAI saying, oh, these five levels are too generic. Yes, these five levels aim to be generic because they aim to share this with a wider population inside OpenAI. Today, they are using this just for internal purposes because many people do not know exactly what is the path of the journey. So this is a type of communication that strategically shows OpenAI ambitions and where they see a possibility of movement towards the future, and you can do the same. And this is the learning I want you to take from that for your project. Like Front-end loading or FEL. It's fel one, fel two, fel three. In the process of developing capital projects, for example, level one of risk in your project, level two, and level three. If you are using, for example, PRINCE2, this can be the basis for your management by exception principle. This is why it's so important that you tailor your communication to your specific group. So with that, just for example, just the past week I said about level one, level two of OpenAI to explain to people where we currently are. So, in a simple and non-technical way, and this is the aim of this type of communication, this type of qualitative communication, because it makes a sharp, fast, and aims to reach a much broader audience, you need to speak the language of your audience. Otherwise, you do not engage your stakeholders. Think about that, and see you next week with another 5 Minutes Podcast.
