It’s not lost on us here at the Chamber, that while the AI revolution is in full swing, much of what you hear out there is either doom & gloom or full-on hyperbolic fantasies about what AI can do.

And so we’ve decided we should take a stab at helping to ground our local businesspeople, who find themselves in the curious but confused crowd.

So what is AI really?

The video below, courtesy Tobago Updates, and a little in-house editing, answers that question and whole lot more. And just so you know, we've included specific topics with their respective time codes below, so you can skip to whatever interests you.

1. What is AI? 00:00:00:00

2. What forms does AI come in? 00:00:52:10

3. Are there more POSITIVES to AI than NEGATIVES? 00:02:36:16

4. Can we get a list of the types of jobs that ARE/WILL be replaced by AI? 00:04:48:22

5. Will replace lower level job positions only? 00:05:37:00

6. How do you determine what kind of job AI can replace? 00:06:18:16

7. Is there another way to think about the doom and gloom people are expecting from the AI revolution? 00:09:11:29

8. Is AI too impersonal to be used with our human customers? 00:09:55:04

9. Will AI make people lazy? 00:12:15:04

10. Can we stop the bad stuff that’s coming with AI? 00:14:54:21

11. What currency will exponentially increase in value with the coming AI revolution? 00:17:10:05

12. Will AI take over over the world and rule over us? 00:19:13:12