AI
the the truth nobody wants to say out loud is that most people with authority didn’t earn it.
they inherited it.
they faked it.
they politicked their way into it.
they sat in meetings, approved other people’s work, & called it “leadership.”
they were great at navigating the game of perception.
they were terrible at building anything real.
and now the... See more
they inherited it.
they faked it.
they politicked their way into it.
they sat in meetings, approved other people’s work, & called it “leadership.”
they were great at navigating the game of perception.
they were terrible at building anything real.
and now the... See more
the death of expertise
AI is not pulling from a database, it is guessing the next word based on statistical patterns in its training data. That means that what it produces is not necessarily true (in fact, one of many surprises about LLMs are how often they are right, given this), but, even when it provides false information, it likely sounds plausible. That makes it... See more
Ethan Mollick • Thinking Like an AI
once the AI has written something, it cannot go back, so it needs to justify (or explain or lie about) that statement in the future
Ethan Mollick • Thinking Like an AI
you will realize that AI accomplishes impressive outcomes that, intuitively, we would not expect from an autocomplete system.
Ethan Mollick • Thinking Like an AI
we’ve been trained since childhood to value the answer. school taught us that. the world graded us on it.
but real thinkers, dangerous thinkers, chase questions.
not to look smart. not to win arguments.
but to see differently.
to peel back the world & ask: why does this even look like this?
to ask things like:
but real thinkers, dangerous thinkers, chase questions.
not to look smart. not to win arguments.
but to see differently.
to peel back the world & ask: why does this even look like this?
to ask things like:
- what assumptions are hiding in plain sight?
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