ceej (@ceej.online)
The risk isn’t that these tools will make us stupid. It’s that they’ll make us differently-abled in ways we don’t fully understand. We’re trading certain cognitive capacities for others without a clear map of what we’re giving up or gaining. I see this in my own work. I reach for ChatGPT reflexively now when I’m stuck on a problem. Sometimes it gen
... See morekaranchawla.io • Slouching Towards Sensemaking
This takes me to a second problem, though. Excel isn’t just giving suggestions - those tiles are documents, and documents are the start of a process, not an answer. You can see what you’ve built and what it’s doing, and how far you’ve got. The same sense of creation as process applies to Photoshop, Ableton or Powerpoint, or even a simple text edito... See more
Benedict Evans • Unbundling AI
I thought I was using AI in an incredibly positive and healthy way, as a bicycle for my mind and a way to vastly increase my thinking capacity. But LLMs are insidious–using them to explore ideas feels like work, but it’s not real work. Developing a prompt is like scrolling Netflix, and reading the output is like watching a TV show. Intellectual rig... See more