Thoughts on "Who Gains and Loses from the new AI?"
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Thoughts on "Who Gains and Loses from the new AI?"
This stance assumes a static world, a fixed pie to be divided among all intelligences, whether human or machine. This is not how the world works. The world expands. The pie grows.What is true is that there will be winners and losers among humans, and that the divide between the two will be historically wide.The losers will be those who behave like ... See more
Tyler Cowen summarizes this reality more bluntly: “The key question will be: are you good at working with intelligent machines or not?”
Cal Newport • Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
Aside from the doomers who believe that AI will kill us all and the techno-utopians who believe it will solve all of our problems, there are three main ways that people seem to be thinking about AI.
At one extreme, you might fear that AI will take your job. Certainly, you’ve read as much in the press, and it does seem to be getting better and bette... See more
At one extreme, you might fear that AI will take your job. Certainly, you’ve read as much in the press, and it does seem to be getting better and bette... See more
Why Generalists Own the Future
In the age of AI, it’s better to know a little about a lot than a lot about a little
by Dan Shipper
DALL-E/Every illustration.
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A common refrain I hear is that in the age of AI, you don’t want to be a “jack of all trades and a master
... See moreThe first step is to understand the fundamental difference between humans and AIs. We are analog, chemical beings, with emotions and feelings. Compared with machines, we think slowly—and we act too fast, failing to consider the long-term consequences of our behavior (which AI can help predict). So we should not compete with AI; we should use it. At... See more