the impact of AI

ChatGPT allows you to automate tedious thoughts. Whenever you are mildly curious about a question or annoyed at not having a piece of information, you can delegate that labor to ChatGPT.

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The problem isn’t that machines are becoming more human-like, it’s that humans are becoming more machine-like in an effort to keep up.

There are no shortcuts to hard-won insight.

No one does this in a snap.

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Embrace these powerful tools by all means, but do so with intention and clarity. Augment, but don't offload. Because efficiency without engagement isn't progress – it's a fast track to professional atrophy.

There’s a difference between an AI agent and an AI copilot . Language matters. The latter implies more of human augmentation, rather than human obfuscation. I imagine copilots and augmentation will be more palatable to people. (This will be especially true as we adjust to the reality of software doing work for us .)

The omnipresent do-anything button of AI is certainly tempting. And companies including OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft are encouraging such behavior while hoping to prove out their investment in AI tools.