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FRINGE QUEST retweeted
I'm not sure how to square this sunny optimism with the lived experience of trying to use a company's AI agent for shopping only to have it lie about prices and recommend fake products or talking to another business's AI phone agent that could not understand my name.
It’s almost incomprehensible how wide the distance is between someone who’s working at the frontier with AI and basically everyone else right now.
The crazy thing is these lines are not converging, but only growing farther apart. If the curve of AI progress had leveled off, it would certainly have given most people and companies time to catch up or implement their workflows in a standardized way. The technology would have neutralized competitive advantage because everyone would be using it the same way.
But what’s happened is the opposite. The curve of AI progress is basically going vertical right now, which means if you had codified your processes 3-6 months ago you’re likely already behind again. Now imagine most companies that kicked into gear a year ago and thought that they were done. Even further behind now.
I’ve never seen a technology in my life and career that improves at this rate, which consequently means you need to upgrade your expectations at a similar rate. Our brains weren’t wired for this, and our organizational change management processes certainly weren’t either.
With any form of recursive self improvement, things just get wilder. It’s a time when you will need to be constantly reevaluating the things that didn’t work just a couple months ago to see if they now can be solved. AI native companies certainly have a strong advantage due to this right now, so now it comes down to can the bigger companies keep up. Wild times.
FRINGE QUEST retweeted
It’s almost incomprehensible how wide the distance is between someone who’s working at the frontier with AI and basically everyone else right now.
The crazy thing is these lines are not converging, but only growing farther apart. If the curve of AI progress had leveled off, it would certainly have given most people and companies time to catch up or implement their workflows in a standardized way. The technology would have neutralized competitive advantage because everyone would be using it the same way.
But what’s happened is the opposite. The curve of AI progress is basically going vertical right now, which means if you had codified your processes 3-6 months ago you’re likely already behind again. Now imagine most companies that kicked into gear a year ago and thought that they were done. Even further behind now.
I’ve never seen a technology in my life and career that improves at this rate, which consequently means you need to upgrade your expectations at a similar rate. Our brains weren’t wired for this, and our organizational change management processes certainly weren’t either.
With any form of recursive self improvement, things just get wilder. It’s a time when you will need to be constantly reevaluating the things that didn’t work just a couple months ago to see if they now can be solved. AI native companies certainly have a strong advantage due to this right now, so now it comes down to can the bigger companies keep up. Wild times.
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FRINGE QUEST retweeted
Man, there are a lot of people on X who want to defend a guy who literally wrote about his belief in Aryan genetic supremacy because he's into UFOs. – at Delmar, NY
Any chance we can inject a little sanity into all of this?
Douglas Dean Johnson: DO U.S. SENATORS AFFIRM THAT UFO WHISTLEBLOWERS FACE "DIRECT RISKS TO PERSONAL SAFETY"? / "NO," Senator Mike Rounds told me. douglasjohnson.ghost.io/sen-…
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"At the end of every three years, bring all the tithes of that year's produce and store it in your towns, so that ... the aliens, the fatherless and the widows who live in your towns may come and eat and be satisfied." -- Deuteronomy 14:28-29
Just FYI, the world's 10 most spoken languages other than English: Mandarin (China), Spanish, Hindi (India), Arabic, Portuguese, Bengali (India & Bangla Desh), Russian, Japanese, Punjabi (India & Pakistan), German.
"An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field." ~ Niels Bohr
Who am I, if not one who listens
for words to stir from the silences they keep?
Love is the ground note; we cannot do
without it or the sorrow of its changes.
Come to the wildwood, love,
Oh, to the wildwood as the morning deepens,-->
Oct. 31st (All Hallow's Eve), in Celtic religion, Samhain (sow-in), high festival of the year's last harvest, of the Earth's turning toward the dark of the year, of the veneration of ancestors, of "the thinning of the veil between the worlds." -->
