โI actually think that's kind of where we might be heading, where like the sort of social skills I've said before, the looksmaxing, the personal branding, the multitasking, I guess like becomes more important. So the future is performative humanity.โ
AI might disrupt labor differently than past technologies
โI kind of feel maybe this is not just going to be like the steam engine or whatever. It might be very different. Maybe we won't have jobs, maybe there will be new jobs. Anyway, someone who's been talking and thinking a lot about this and why AI might be different, we're going to be speaking with the perfect guest.โ
Generality distinguishes current AI from prior narrow tools
โIn the jump from like where we were thinking about AI as these very very very targeted things like AI will play the game Go or something like that to something where WHOA, it can write an essay, it can tell me about this accounting property, it can make a four cast. All of a sudden, the generality of the technologies just exploded, and to me that was a huge deal.โ
Rapid development speed creates a massive productivity gap
โWhen you like look at like some of like what was cutting edge in twenty nineteen, and then you look at what's cutting edge in late twenty twenty two, I'm almost more impressed than if like I hadn't known what they were up to in twenty nineteen. Like it's a huge gap with those few years.โ
AI is mastering complex and sophisticated cognitive tasks
โEven after a few months and like within the year, you saw that it was able to kind of do basic cognitive tasks to a decent degree. Like it wasn't like we are going to replace that person, but it was doing pretty sophisticated things that in the jump from thinking about AI as targeted things to something general exploded.โ