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The final bottleneck to great work is not knowledge or information. It’s not even intelligence. It’s that elusive, intangible, sublime quality—call it taste, imagination, creativity, courage, judgment, intuition, agency.
We’ve all heard the Thomas Edison quote where he said genius is 1% inspiration, 99% perspiration. Back then, execution was expens
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Reflecting my understanding of positioning and psychology : I will provide the right context, define the tone and personality for the brand, ask the AI to generate multiple variations, and keep pushing and pressure-testing and giving feedback to the models until the right words hit.
Same tool. Wildly different results. But the tool itself didn't mak
... See moreExpectation:
AI will replace expertise.
Reality:
AI changes the nature of expertise.
AI makes average attainable by anyone, and therefore raises the bar for what is considered exceptional.
Technology doesn’t just make old tasks easier —it creates entirely new standards. Before washing machines, families washed clothes maybe twice a year. After that, weekly laundry became the norm.
Technology doesn’t exist in a vacuum. We respond to technology.
A paradox: the amount of things that are now possible and exciting and worth exploring because of AI greatly exceeds the amount of time I save using AI.
The term AI is a huge disservice and collective intelligence is a far more accurate term. (Holly Herndon)
Because if you strip LLMs to their essence, they are just a much better way of using statistics to aggregate human intelligence and connect everything we’ve all done together to get more use out of it.
Imagine OpenAI had been called OpenCI : Open
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