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To the extent that people do use AI tools for real work, it is often through something like an application copilot. These are all built to offer a “safe” way to use AI at work, and as such are often very limited compared to what a frontier model can do.
Ethan Mollick • Confronting Impossible Futures
The problem with expertise is that it's entirely backward-facing. Worse, the more experience we have the more we imagine we "know" what will happen when of course we don't. Peter Drucker's maxim still holds: "The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different". With AI, the right questions to ask are "how different, how fast, and... See more
Ethan Mollick • Confronting Impossible Futures
Yesterday I was talking to a Google recruiter and he was saying how as a big corporate it is difficult to change things or do new stuff. I frequently forget that about Google as I still have an image of it as a startup resulting from reading
I'm Feeling Lucky: The Confessions of Google Employee Number 59 back in 2015. That book... See more
TraumaZone 2022
filmsforaction.orgPreviously unused archival footage of the Soviet Union and Russia from the BBC's Moscow bureau was unearthed and digitised by a BBC employee, Phil Goodwin.[1] Adam Curtis appeared to be the only person within the BBC interested in using the footage.[2] In a departure from his usual style, Curtis opted not to use voiceovers or non-diegetic music, with the only commentary made via on-screen captions.[3][2] Curtis, in a piece in The Guardian, explained this choice was because the footage was "so strong that I didn’t want to intrude pointlessly, but rather let viewers simply experience what was happening".[4] In an interview with Meduza, Curtis stated that Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace served as an inspiration for him as "it appeals to my collage mind".[5]
A decade or so ago Hare-Brown noticed a rise in insurance companies offering cyber-crime policies, and thought there might be demand for a firm that could perform risk assessments and investigations for them. He started STORM Guidance in 2014, and Shah came on board five years later.
Amanda Chicago Lewis • Secrets of a ransomware negotiator
The incentive to find breakthrough science that provides a performance pathway other than scaling is increasing. A GPT-6 class model will cost $10 billion and three years to improve on GPT-5 by some uncertain degree. That’s a ton of time and a lot of cash for an uncertain payout: in other words, a substantial prize for anyone who can figure out... See more
Azeem Azhar • 🧠 AI’s $100bn question: The scaling ceiling
I love the future scenario planner gpt. I am giving a talk about the future of talent assessment and it provided me with some great insight. The theme of my talk is - we suck at prediction but it is an existential must for the collective human mind. And while we may suck at it, it inspires us to create. Even if we miss the mark, we end up creating... See more