Generative AI

Thinking of AI as talent rather than tech opens up an expansive yet familiar vocabulary for introducing this game-changing new teammate into our workplaces.

Some of the ways that AI is more HR than IT…

• AI is a long-term investment, requiring development and training in order to adapt, improve, and create new value over time.

• AI can be a dynamic,

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The programmer Simon Willison has described the training for large language models as “money laundering for copyrighted data,” which I find a useful way to think about the appeal of generative-A.I. programs: they let you engage in something like plagiarism, but there’s no guilt associated with it because it’s not clear even to you that you’re... See more

The reason I think this is that the hard part of coding has always been humans getting clear on how they want a thing to work and then presenting this to a machine for execution. This is why we write code in programming language rather than natural language; programming language is an extension of formal logic and lets humans express with... See more