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AI is Here: Musings on What it Could Mean
AI allows me to retreat to industrial intermediate production. To being a OEM vendor of words. Some assembly required. Which I now trust you to do with AI help even if you have no aptitude for verbal refinement and finishing processes.
from My Post-Ai Writing by Venkatesh Rao
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- Designing in an AI World
AI will reduce today’s design jobs. This I feel strongly.
The value of many design jobs today is in visual translation. Someone has a picture in mind of what they want and hires a designer to make that picture real.
If that person can instead feed in a text file into an AI tool and say: Show me a bunch of webpage option
... See morefrom The Looking Glass: Prioritize until it hurts by Julie Zhuo
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No one knows, of course, but we suspect that AI is far more likely to complement and empower human workers than to impoverish them or displace them onto the welfare rolls. This doesn’t mean we’re starry-eyed Panglossians; we realize that this optimistic perspective is a tough sell, and even if our vision comes true, there will certainly be some pe
... See morefrom Generative AI: autocomplete for everything by Noah Smith
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- Interface > Data > Model: The “interface” and “data” layers will further distinguish market leaders while the “models” layer becomes increasingly commoditized and pushed to the edge. As a growing number of our everyday use-cases of powerful GenerativeAI models fall below the frontier of “the best models,” they will be enabled by cheaper commoditize... See more
from Shortwave — rajhesh.panchanadhan@gmail.com [Gmail alternative]
Nicolay Gerold added
The tendency to think of A.I. as a magical problem solver is indicative of a desire to avoid the hard work that building a better world requires. That hard work will involve things like addressing wealth inequality and taming capitalism. For technologists, the hardest work of all—the task that they most want to avoid—will be questioning the assumpt
... See morefrom Will A.I. Become the New McKinsey? by Ted Chiang
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Indeed, AI is a diffuse term that corresponds to a web of human actors and computational processes interacting in complex ways
from Who gets credit for AI-generated art? – MIT Media Lab by Sydney Levine
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- Product
- Fewer jobs-to-be-done. Focus on just 1-2 jobs-to-be done that are shared by many clients. The more jobs, the harder to productize. You can always expand.
- Scalable access. Find and tap into high-quality talent channels. Mechanical Orchard did this with the Pivotal Labs network (CEO Rob Mee used to run that company). Where’s your leg up?
- Piggyb
from The Death of the Big 4: AI-Enabled Services Are Opening a Whole New Market
Nicolay Gerold added
Thinking of AI as talent rather than tech opens up an expansive yet familiar vocabulary for introducing this game-changing new teammate into our workplaces.
Some of the ways that AI is more HR than IT…
• AI is a long-term investment, requiring development and training in order to adapt, improve, and create new value over time.
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• AI can be a dynamic, ifrom August Newsletter: Start Thinking of AI as Talent, Not Tech. 🤖 by Mike Arauz
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