Why AI? When AI?
Why and when should I use AI?? What are creatives saying?
Why AI? When AI?
Baptists
“Baptists” are the true believer social reformers who legitimately feel – deeply and emotionally, if not rationally – that new restrictions, regulations, and laws are required to prevent societal disaster. For alcohol prohibition, these actors were often literally
devout Christians
who felt that alcohol was destroying the moral fabric of... See more
“Baptists” are the true believer social reformers who legitimately feel – deeply and emotionally, if not rationally – that new restrictions, regulations, and laws are required to prevent societal disaster. For alcohol prohibition, these actors were often literally
devout Christians
who felt that alcohol was destroying the moral fabric of... See more
Marc Andreessen • Why AI Will Save the World
Andreessen, “Why AI Will Save the World” Andreessen Horowitz, 2023
Opposition to AI falls into category of baptists and bootleggers
Can artificial intelligence help us to be creative? That’s the important question, and it’s a question about user interfaces, not about who has the biggest model.
Mike Loukides • Artificial Creativity?
These two modes of thinking are referred to as “System 1” and “System 2” thinking in Thinking, Fast and Slow, the late economist Daniel Kahneman’s book about how people make decisions. In the book, he differentiated between the fast, automatic, and intuitive System 1 thinking we use for most everyday decisions, and the slow, deliberate conscious... See more
Michael Taylor • Why AIs Need to Stop and Think Before They Answer
Michael Taylor, Also true for humans, Every, https://every.to/also-true-for-humans/7-22
Recent research from Microsoft — covering over 31,000 people across 31 countries — found that 75% of knowledge workers are already using generative AI at work and 78% of them are bringing their own AI to work. On top of that, more than half of the people using generative AI at work are reluctant to admit it.
Why Giving Employees the AI Tools and Training They Want Is a Win-Win
Glen Cathey, LinkedIn, on training for genAI
Some areas you might consider include:
- Individual Contractors
- Generalist consultancies (tend to be expensive)
- High-end boutique (specialist) consultancies
- Functional-specific consultancies
- Off-shore consultants
- MLaaS
- AIaaS
- Company rotation programs
- LLM- and other GenAI-focused course and bootcamp offerings
- Technical recruiters
- University/Boot Camp
Link
Wiley, Generative AI for Business Leaders, Udacity, 2024
Where to find talent
The benefits of using generative AI for work are simply too compelling for people to ignore. Microsoft’s research found that when people can use generative AI at work:
- 90% say it helps them save time
- 85% say it helps them focus on their most important work
- 84% report it helps them be more creative
- 83% say they enjoy their work more
Why Giving Employees the AI Tools and Training They Want Is a Win-Win
Glen Cathay, LinkedIn, why AI development is necessary
Vatican exploration about the difference between AI and human intelligence.
1/ Each AI task will be associated with a performance metric. AI may perform the task, but a human supervisor will be accountable for the performance metric. They will use and tune AI agents as necessary to hit the metric.
AI agents are here. Do we still need this many managers?
Nerd Processor - data driven managers will oversee agentic AI because performance is the measure that matters