Generative AI
AI will magnify the already great difference in knowledge between the people who are eager to learn and those who aren't.
Over the next year or two, I expect GPT-4 and its successors to become a copilot for the mind: a digital research assistant that will bring to bear the sum total of everything you’ve read, everything you’ve thought, and everything you’ve forgotten every time you touch a keyboard.
It will solve some of the perennial problems in produc
... See moreDan Shipper • GPT-4: A Copilot for the Mind
“We don’t know what capabilities GPT-5 will have until we train it and test it. It might be a medium-size problem right now, but it will become a really big problem in the future as models become more powerful.”
Your "AI Chief Of Staff". Sort of assistant agent you talk to 2-3 times a day, it handles everything for you. Then go back to just working on things. "To me, that's the dream of AI and knowledge work - much more so than the AI helping me do the actual work. I don't care about the speed at which I do my tasks. I want to eliminate all the context shi
... See moreAs more human jobs become assisted, automated, or replaced by artificial intelligence, we must spend our hours where we have a competitive advantage over machines: developing new ideas, expressing old things in new ways, innovating process, and crafting the story that infuses our creations with meaning .
Scott Belsky • Creating in The Era of Creative Confidence
Writing code from scratch is gone. This was the most exciting part of the profession. Now what remains are debugging/fixing. The same concerns graphical design (original character design in games is gone), writing music (new melodies can be generated by clicking "refresh" and then improved), literature. You never start from scratch anymore. Which i
... See more@emollick Put in the reps. If you aren't hitting the chatGPT cap multiple times a day, you have 0 business reading a research paper
The open area of research is what can we use LLMs for, not how do we build better LLMs
and the papers are outdated anyways
Even if LLMs don’t get smarter (though I suspect they will, and soon) new capabilities and modes of interacting with AIs, like agents and massive context windows, will help LLMs do dramatic new feats.
Ethan Mollick • Which AI should I use? Superpowers and the State of Play
Ethan Mollick
One way to think about (LLM) is that about 3 years ago, aliens landed on Earth. They handed over a USB stick and then disappeared. Since then we’ve been poking the thing they gave us with a stick, trying to figure out what it does and how it works.