“Will A.I. Become the New McKinsey?” by Ted Chiang, is bursting with mind bombs: https://www.newyorker.com/science/annals-of-artificial-intelligence/will-ai-become-the-new-mckinsey
He says “We should all strive to be Luddites” and he’s right. [Narrator: “Luddite” doesn’t mean what you think.]
@timbray “A former McKinsey employee has described the company as “capital’s willing executioners”: if you want something done but don’t want to get your hands dirty, McKinsey will do it for you.”
Early conclusion: this is great.
The "hard work" section is really important.
AI needs a lot of hard work for governance and regulations. (Like paying artists for their inclusion in the DB)
But this applies in all kinds of tech spaces.
Social networks don't get better if people don't want to do the hard work of governance and funding. Home security gets handed over to Google and Amazon unless people take charge.
MS keeps selling Office to governments who won't fund LibreOffice... /1
@timbray ... At some point we need to accept that this technology we build and need are social goods. And they need us to do the hard work of managing and funding and supporting them.
And AI tools will need the same thing. And frankly they need it sooner, because they already depend on an existing public good in order to get better. //
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