During the Twixmas downtime period, I saw the incredible “Electric Dreams” exhibition at the Tate Modern, which, for me, can give us inspiration in our business endeavours today.

Showcasing Art and Technology Before the Internet, it seems you can view it in two ways:
🔹 Smile at the plinkety-plink lights and noises and remark how its akin to watching Jason and the Argonauts with the Ray Harryhausen special effects vs Blade Runner 2049; or
🔹 Marvel at the brilliance of the artists who were taking the ‘primitive’ new technologies and pushing their boundaries as far as they could go

One such exhibition was “KD 29 – Artificial Mondrian”. Programmed by Hiroshi Kawano using the Fortran computer code, it could create and draw coloured squares as a close mimic to the abstract style of the artist Piet Mondrian.

Before anyone jumps on me, I know this is not ‘real’ AI. But, I can’t help thinking, based on what I see in my inbox, that a modern marketeer would advertise it as ‘AI-driven’, like everything seems to be these days.

Here at Avant Advisory, we are using CoPilot, Perplexity and other AI tools as much as we can. We make efforts to push the boundaries ourselves with what we can achieve with it and on behalf of our clients.

Yet, I still feel that we have a huge amount more to see in finance, accounting and business from AI.

We all are still the KD29 Kawanos experimenting with ‘primitive’ technology yet helping to nudge it forward in its evolution towards something superior (although we have to be careful, as for all that the special effects of Blade Runner 2049 were superior, I felt the script and pacing of the original movie was better).

What do you think? What ‘cutting edge’ things are you doing today that will probably be seen as standard or ‘plinkety-plink’ in 10 year’s time?