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Why Artificial Intelligence Often Feels Like Magic
all of this remains much less a science than an art, and AIs still work more like people than software.
Ethan Mollick • Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI
Almost every company I talk to, and basically every solution vendor, has been pushing for people to use AI to “talk-to-your-data,” an approach allows the AI to retrieve content from a company’s proprietary databases and then work with the documents and data it retrieves. The problem is that AIs hallucinate, or make up plausible information, all the... See more
Ethan Mollick • Almost an Agent: What GPTs can do
I think--I hope, at any rate--that widespread use may help accomplish that demystification: The more people use A.I. with some regularity, the more broad familiarity they’ll develop with its specific and and consistent shortcomings; the more people understand how LLMs work from practical experience, the more they can recognize A.I. as an impressive... See more
Max Read • The A.I. backlash backlash
When it comes to AI, we need to aim higher than the question: “What if you could press a button to generate an essay?” AI can produce infinite amounts of content; quantity is its game. Quality, intention, taste, originality, vision—that’s where we come in.
Our interfaces should facilitate prose-sculpting, meaning-architecting, memory-augmenting, and
... See moreSari Azout • The End of Productivity
The illusion persists because there’s so much money in it. Back in 2016, Ben Thompson wrote that Google’s AI efforts were at odds with its business model: “If a user doesn’t have to choose from search results, said user also doesn’t have the opportunity to click an ad, thus choosing the winner of the competition Google created between its advertise... See more