Preparing for the Agentic Era

my basic assumption is that most people do not want an AI physician or doctor (personally, I do not fall into this category).

It seems to me that most people prefer the human-to-human relationship when it comes to discussing sensitive health data, or similar scenarios.

Think about psychologists, caretakers, coaches, personal trainers, or government o... See more

There are many theories on how in the long run AI will allow us to build some utopian neo-communist society where everything is basically free because labor and production are close to zero (see Fully Automated Luxury Communism for example), but in the short term this is all just useless speculation.

Even if this utopian dream will manifest (and I a... See more

In 2025 we will likely see the first agents being hired by companies (we already saw the AI agent Luna being hired for a paid internship last year).

This means that if you work for a company, I anticipate there’s a real possibility you will get a new AI colleague this year. This might require some mental adjusting.

the manner in which AI will cause disruption is fundamentally different from previous technological innovations. AI will be mostly deployed in the cognitive domains and at an unprecedented speed. Moreover, as we have seen, AI will soon be able to work by itself . It does not necessarily require human oversight to be productive, a key difference fro... See more

A recent study confirmed the potential of using AI in education. A randomized controlled trial in Nigeria showed that over a six-week after-school program between June and July 2024, students who engaged with GPT-4 as a virtual tutor achieved learning gains equivalent to nearly two years of traditional schooling.