My Last Five Years of Work
From chatbot to agent-coworker
What could ambitious unhobbling over the coming years look like? The way I think about it, there are three key ingredients:
1. Solving the “onboarding problem”
GPT-4 has the raw smarts to do a decent chunk of many people’s jobs, but it’s sort of like a smart new hire that just showed up 5 minutes ago: it doesn’t have a... See more
What could ambitious unhobbling over the coming years look like? The way I think about it, there are three key ingredients:
1. Solving the “onboarding problem”
GPT-4 has the raw smarts to do a decent chunk of many people’s jobs, but it’s sort of like a smart new hire that just showed up 5 minutes ago: it doesn’t have a... See more
SITUATIONAL AWARENESS - The Decade Ahead • I. From GPT-4 to AGI: Counting the OOMs
Having laid out at length the political problems with delegating the responsibility for coping with your own life to a political program, I must confess that my primary concern is personal, not political. I do not hate the knowledge workers at whom this type of essay is directed (I am one of them). I believe that large swathes of them are experienc... See more