Co-Intelligence

Then there are Automated Tasks, ones you leave completely to the AI and don’t even check on. Perhaps there is a category of email that you just let AI deal with, for example. This is likely to be a very small category … for now.

another new feature of ChatGPT was the fact that you can now engage the system in dialogue. So I can complain about the last line (“But ‘tried’ doesn’t rhyme with ‘high’), and it will correct it. My apologies! Here’s a revised limerick:

Along with their colleagues Karan Girotra and Lennart Meincke, they staged an idea generation contest6 to come up with the best products for a college student that would cost $50 or less. It was the GPT-4 AI against 200 students. The students lost, and it wasn’t even close. AI was faster, obviously, generating a lot more ideas than the average pers

To make the most of this relationship, you must establish a clear and specific AI persona, defining who the AI is and what problems it should tackle.

it can help to give the AI explicit instructions that go step by step through what you want. One approach, called chain-of-thought prompting,11 gives the AI an example of how you want it to reason, before you make your request. Even more usefully, you can also provide step-by-step instructions that build on each other, making it easier to check the

You should try inviting AI to help you in everything you do, barring legal or ethical barriers. As you experiment, you may find that AI help can be satisfying, or frustrating, or useless, or unnerving. But you aren’t just doing this for help alone; familiarizing yourself with AI’s capabilities allows you to better understand how it can assist you—o

AI agents, monitored by humans, could potentially drastically reduce the need for human work while expanding the economy. The adjustment to this shift, if it were to occur, is hard to imagine. It will require a major rethinking of how we approach work and society. Shortened workweeks, universal basic income, and other policy changes might become a

a large group of creative humans will usually generate a wider diversity of ideas8 than the AI. All of this suggests that humans still have a large role to play in innovation … but that they would be foolish not to include AI in that process, especially if they don’t consider themselves highly creative.

Echo chambers of other similarly minded people21 are already a common occurrence. But soon we will each have our own perfect echo chambers. It’s possible that these personalized AIs might ease the epidemic of loneliness22 that ironically affects our ever more connected world—just as the internet and social media connected dispersed subcultures. On

We have invented a kind of alien mind. But how do we ensure the alien is friendly? That is the alignment problem.