AI will make a savants of all of us — and least in our own heads.
https://futurism.com/future-society/ai-chatbots-dunning-kruger-machines
A recent article: “Evidence Grows That AI Chatbots Are Dunning-Kruger Machines” shows that people are gullible!
Here’s another study: The more that people use AI, the more likely they are to overestimate their own abilities
More news at 11.
In 2011, “Software is Eating the world” by Marc Andreesson. Now AI has a huge appetite for software. It’s likely a financial bubble, but AI is gaining momentum in the software world and it’s coming for the regular world. Here’s a quote from a power user:
I have not had this much fun with a computer since I learned BASIC on my Apple II Plus when I was 9 years old. This opinion comes not as an endorsement but as personal experience: I voluntarily undertook this project, and I paid out of pocket for both OpenAI and Anthropic’s premium AI plans.
–Benj Edwards, from 10 things I learned from burning myself out with AI coding agents
I listen to Nate’s AI & Product substack. He says:
The unit of strategy is no longer the model. It’s the routing layer, the specification layer, and the review layer. Build those well, and the models will keep getting better underneath you. Your job is to redesign the work. The models are just the engines.
These pics were taken 13 years apart. Same place 5th Av. NY City. On the left horse carriages and 1 car, on the right, 1 horse carriage and all the cars.
