A look at some implications for generative AI: “answer engines” replacing search engines, AI mastering cognitive tasks by surveilling how experts work, and more
This is Work in Progress, a newsletter by Derek Thompson about work, technology, and how to solve some of America's biggest problems. Tweets: @krishnanrohit , @buccocapital , @carnage4life , @dkthomp , @nxthompson , @dkthomp , @douthatnyt , @hadip , @iplayedd1 , @sean_mcdowell , @prestonjbyrne , @nachristakis , and @alecstapp Tweets: Rohit Krishnan / @krishnanrohit : 3. When @DKThomp wrote that they write well and create award-winning art, this is what he means. This is the first era. @ConsensusNLP is his example, surfing all the academic papers and creating summaries or links between similar things for us to learn. https://www.theatlantic.com/ ... @buccocapital : IMO the biggest immediate impact of OpenAI's chat is that teachers can't give take-home exams anymore, and really need to rethink their assignments Its been a while since I taught as an adjunct, but this would have blown up my lower level courses. Pretty crazy to think about Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life : It turns out that the only jobs not in danger of being automated are the ones that pay too little to be worth it. It's more likely doctors and lawyers will be automated in the future than fast food workers and janitors. https://www.theatlantic.com/ ... https://twitter.com/... Derek Thompson / @dkthomp : I subscribe to the theory that technology does not replace jobs. It synthesizes, accelerates, and automated tasks, which are part of jobs. AI comes from us. How people use people-made tools is up to ... people. https://www.theatlantic.com/ ... @nxthompson : Recent advances in AI have been phenomenal. It's become creative. It could replace conventional search engines. It could replace @DKThomp. The implications are getting weird. https://www.theatlantic.com/ ... Derek Thompson / @dkthomp : I wrote about the mind-blowing implications of generative AI, which might be the most important news story of 2022—as a conventional-wisdom destroyer, a pattern-matching speed demon, an uncanny toy, and an “answer engine” to replace the search engine https://www.theatlantic.com/ ... Ross Douthat / @douthatnyt : Reading @DKThomp on AI is particularly interesting if you pair the piece with ... https://www.theatlantic.com/ ... Hadi Partovi / @hadip : AI can now write essays, draw art, create videos, write computer code, and hold complicated conversations on almost any topic. /1 https://www.theatlantic.com/ ... Eric Olson / @iplayedd1 : Honored to be included in @DKThomp latest piece. His work is amazing as always. Join in on the fun today: https://consensus.app/ https://twitter.com/... Sean McDowell / @sean_mcdowell : AI Is Coming for the Thought Leaders https://www.theatlantic.com/ ... https://twitter.com/... Preston Byrne / @prestonjbyrne : We will wind up being a species of content moderators. The AI will do all the work and workers will do all the tone policing, at the behest of the ruling classes, to make sure the AI content doesn't step out of line. https://twitter.com/... Nicholas A. Christakis / @nachristakis : AI Is Coming for Thought Leaders. Via @DKThomp @TheAtlantic “I've wanted to type questions into a search bar and, in milliseconds, read the consensus from decades of scientific research.” And that's now possible: https://consensus.app/ https://www.theatlantic.com/ ... Alec Stapp / @alecstapp : Great piece by @DKThomp on what the latest progress in AI means for workers and the economy: https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...