mapping the crazy AI world
AI’s ability to identify patterns, make predictions based on them, and continually learn from outcomes may not create human-like intelligence, but it creates something arguably more valuable and practical: the ability to adapt in response to uncertainty.
Sangeet Paul Choudary • Reshuffle: Who wins when AI restacks the knowledge economy
And so art—all of it, I mean, the entire human artistic endeavor—becomes a thing satiated, stripped of meaning, pure syntax.
This is what I fear most about AI, at least in the immediate future. Not some superintelligence that eats the world (it can’t even beat Pokémon yet, a game many of us conquered at ten). Rather, a less noticeable apocalypse. Cu... See more
This is what I fear most about AI, at least in the immediate future. Not some superintelligence that eats the world (it can’t even beat Pokémon yet, a game many of us conquered at ten). Rather, a less noticeable apocalypse. Cu... See more
Welcome to the semantic apocalypse
You don't need to learn any new hard skills to manage your AI intern. You just need to transfer over the same soft skills you've developed over your life collaborating with people. And, like any good working relationship, success comes down to the basics: clear communication, iterative feedback, shared context, and understanding your partner's stre... See more
lex.page • Writing With AI
To the extent that writing creates a form of non-biological memory — an external system for storing symbolic information — to roughly the same extent, I think, many forms of AI constitute forms of non-biological attention, external systems for selecting, ranking, filtering, and reweaving fields of information around what's salient or important.
Jac Mullen • Attention Machines and Future Politics
Contextual value is a measure of how crucial a task is to the performance or stability of a larger system. It’s not about whether a task is hard to do or emotionally meaningful; it’s about whether it is structurally indispensable to a system operating under certain constraints.
When constraints change, the contextual value of tasks in the system ch... See more
When constraints change, the contextual value of tasks in the system ch... See more
Sangeet Paul Choudary • The Fugu Guide to Jobs in a World of AI
Rather than reaching definitive conclusions about how AI will transform work, I find myself collecting observations about a moving target. What seems consistent is that, for now, the greatest value comes not from surrendering control entirely to AI or clinging to entirely human workflows, but from finding the right points of collaboration for each ... See more
Ethan Mollick • Speaking things into existence
The reality of a technology that can perform “economically valuable tasks” occurs when either:
- There is a new task to perform (like how computers helped us code).
- It automates an existing type of labor (dishwashers made it so we didn’t have to wash dishes).
- It makes an existing form of labor more productive (hammers helped us construct homes faster).