Centaurs not Butlers
Moravec’s paradox: machines and humans frequently have opposite strengths and weaknesses.
David Epstein • Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
Human advantage will be caring about other humans: “humans care about other humans and also not at all about machines”
His most striking prediction: “Who in this room would say with conviction, I’m sure I’ll be smarter than GPT5? Not a single person.
His most striking prediction: “Who in this room would say with conviction, I’m sure I’ll be smarter than GPT5? Not a single person.
Rich Sutton's "The Bitter Lesson" reveals a fascinating pattern in AI research:
For decades, AI researchers have tried to encode human knowledge and expertise into their systems. They believed this would lead to better results. They were wrong. Time and time again, the approaches that won out were simple, general methods that leveraged raw computat
... See moreUntil AIs become very good at a range of Automated Tasks, the most valuable way to use AI at work is to become a Centaur or Cyborg.