how to think with ai, part ii

These systems can be used to give LLMs a form of memory, searching past interactions or previously uploaded documents for useful information. This memory will work much like our own, in that thinking about one idea might unlock random connections to other ideas we thought we had forgotten. As context windows expand and more of our lives get digitiz... See more

From chatbot to agent-coworker

What could ambitious unhobbling over the coming years look like? The way I think about it, there are three key ingredients:

1. Solving the “onboarding problem”

GPT-4 has the raw smarts to do a decent chunk of many people’s jobs, but it’s sort of like a smart new hire that just showed up 5 minutes ago: it doesn’t have a... See more

A lot of the focus on AI use, especially in the corporate world, has been stuck in what I call the “automation mindset” - viewing AI primarily as a tool for speeding up existing workflows like email management and meeting transcription. This perspective made sense for earlier AI models, but it's like evaluating a smartphone solely on its ability to... See more