How AI might change our world
Many respondents began by saying “productivity” and then, when the AI interviewer pressed for what productivity would actually give them, revealed that what they meant was family dinners, or mental bandwidth, or the chance to pick up a child from school on time.
A software engineer in Mexico put it this way: with AI support he could now leave work... See more
A software engineer in Mexico put it this way: with AI support he could now leave work... See more
I want to be more productive so that I can…
Microsoft’s own data shows the Global North-South adoption gap is widening: 24.7 per cent versus 14.1 per cent, with high-income countries hosting 77 per cent of data centre capacity and low-income countries hosting less than 0.1 per cent. The concentration is brutal. High-income nations produce 87 per cent of notable AI models despite being 17 per... See more
Wealth distribution inequity reflected in data centres and ai
A woman in rural Rajasthan who receives an AI-interpreted chest X-ray for tuberculosis has not had her cognitive sovereignty eroded. She has received a diagnosis that no human radiologist was available to give. A farmer in western Kenya whose phone identifies cassava mosaic disease has not suffered an apprenticeship layer collapse. He has accessed... See more
Small AI can lead to large impact. Need to stop worrying about the 2nd year uni student who cheats on his essays
Productivity, AI and pushback
Typesetters did not like the laser printer. Wedding photographers still hate the iphone. And some musicians are outraged that AI is now making mediocre pop music.
One group of esteemed authors is demanding that book publishers refuse to use AI in designing book covers, recording audiobooks or a range of other tasks.
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Typesetters did not like the laser printer. Wedding photographers still hate the iphone. And some musicians are outraged that AI is now making mediocre pop music.
One group of esteemed authors is demanding that book publishers refuse to use AI in designing book covers, recording audiobooks or a range of other tasks.
As... See more
Seth's Blog • Productivity, AI and Pushback
What we do have is agency on how WE will change our work. Action always lies with you.
The problem is that LLMs inherently lack the virtue of laziness . Work costs nothing to an LLM. LLMs do not feel a need to optimize for their own (or anyone’s) future time, and will happily dump more and more onto a layercake of garbage. Left unchecked, LLMs will make systems larger, not better — appealing to perverse vanity metrics, perhaps, but... See more
The peril of laziness lost | The Observation Deck
Constraint of time is a great way to prevent slop.
taste isn’t a weapon you deploy in the marketplace or a purity you protect from the machine; it’s the slow, inefficient work of becoming someone who can make things that are good and true, machines and all.
What is “taste” really?
The loudest story about AI is a lonely one. One person with an army of chatbots. Other humans are friction.
That gets the future wrong. The best things aren’t built alone.
In a moment of change, we want to remind the world (and ourselves) what Notion stands for:
— Think Together
That gets the future wrong. The best things aren’t built alone.
In a moment of change, we want to remind the world (and ourselves) what Notion stands for:
— Think Together
Ai gives you the time to go build the relationships you’ve always wanted to build
Managers can often adapt to managing AI tools more readily because they don’t care how a problem is solved—they just want it solved to their specifications. But the script is flipping: Managers are becoming individual contributors, because managing a team of agents is often easier than managing human teams. It takes a human longer to process reams... See more