AI will have a significant impact on the economy, but as with the internet, the impact will be concentrated in information-focused industries and occupations
At the time I really enjoyed @pmarca's 2011 essay “Why software is eating the world.” But in retrospect, his thesis was wrong. Tech didn't disrupt health care or education, and the last really big tech startup successes were Facebook and Tesla in 2004. https://www.understandingai…
To be concrete about what I think Andreessen got wrong, for a few months I've been seeing a lot of YouTube ads for a startup called Forward that is trying to use modern technology to reimagine primary care. https://www.understandingai.org/ ...
This companies are still around and maybe they'll ultimately succeed but it's pretty clear that they're not going to disrupt Harvard. They are a small part of an industry that hasn't changed much in 30 years. This isn't what Andreessen said would happen. https://www.understanding…
This is a really good point from a reader. I argued that a lot of elderly people are likely to want human caregivers even if robots are available, but this reader points out that a lot of elderly and disabled people have the opposite preference. https://twitter.com/... https://tw…
A “persistent blind spot in Silicon Valley thinking: a tendency to overestimate the power of information technology and underestimate the complexity of the physical world.” @binarybits https://www.understandingai.org/ ...