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People have felt the same way about waning handwriting skills and reliance on calculators. The truth is the way humans process information has been radically a
by acjohnson55 2y ago
People have felt the same way about waning handwriting skills and reliance on calculators.
The truth is the way humans process information has been radically altered by LLMs and we're in the absolute infancy of understanding what that means. It is going to be far more disruptive than the keyboard or calculator. As we discover the implications, we are repeatedly going to find ourselves disturbed and disoriented. There are skeptics who think it's all hype and that current approaches are a dead end. Even if that were true, I'm 100% convinced that even if AI didn't meaningfully improve on today's capabilities, it will still be incredibly disruptive.
Buckle up.
There will be 2 categories of winners of the AI revolution: the quick and the deep.
This poster's little sister is "the quick". She is using AI intuitively and aggressively. Whether it's right or wrong isn't important, because if the payoffs of it being right are more than the costs of it being wrong, she will be vastly more productive than people who are not using AI. A lot of the thinking school has traditionally trained us to do is officially commoditized.
"The deep" are people with strong conceptual understanding of the problems to which they are applying AI and/or strong understanding of the AI itself. They will use AI to create things that didn't exist before. They will take seriously the risk management (although, they will still not be able to successfully predict all unintended consequences).
People will benefit in the new world proportional to their ability to create or extract value.
- JohnMakin 2y ago> "The deep" are people with strong conceptual understanding of the problems to which they are applying AI and/or strong understanding of the AI itself. They will use AI to create things that didn't exist before. They will take seriously the risk management (although, they will still not be able to successfully predict all unintended consequences). Why would these people not just skip the AI part entirely, then?
- theseustheseus 2y agoAI multiplies your existing capabilities if used properly.
- acjohnson55 2y agoImplicit in my argument is the idea that GenAI is a foundational building block of all sorts of innovations that people will come up with. I acknowledge that there are people who don't believe this.