AI Is a Backhoe, Not a Magic Wand
It’s been a couple of years since May 23, 2023, when I posted my first rant about AI in general and ChatGPT (properly pronounced “chat-jippity”) in particular.
In that blog, I compared AI to a calculator:
In the hands of a novice, a scientific calculator is far more likely to be used to spell out “fart” than it is to find the proof to Fermat’s theorem. (Use hex mode, put in “46415254”. How I know this is a story for a different day.) Like the calculator, the spreadsheet, and the internet, AI-driven LLM tools are likely to change HOW we do our work, but not the fact that humans will still be the ones doing the work in the first place.
Today I want to offer another perspective, inspired by a LinkedIn post (you can find it here) by the inimitable Dave Mangot.
He started by referencing someone...
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