#7 - The One Where Get All(most) AInthusiastic Again
This is 418 - I'm A Teapot, a newsletter about #Engineering #Digital #Ideas and now let's DIVE IN!
ENGINEERING - Great piece to help you understand where AI might eat the world - and what it might choke on. How task characteristics, volume of inference and ease of verification define the current limits of productive AI application:
Read: Software is Eating the World (For Real This Time)
Stay within the limits and see magic happen. Such as a bunch of maverick public servants re-building legacy government systems, at 5% the cost their systems integrators would have quoted em:
Read: They Said It Would Cost $54 Million. We Said “No Thanks.”
Impressive. Until you go over a cliff. Such as these note taking bots for health care professionals, that routinely get basic facts wrong. How pushing a task beyond the limits of inference and verification, ends in disaster:
Read: Sick and wrong: Ontario auditors find doctors' AI note takers routinely blow basic facts
DIGITAL - Bold bets all around. Over here is .txt betting on context and coherence being AIs (and teams) ultimate weakness, necessitating a whole new process and product for extracting it:
Read: The bottleneck was never the code
And over here, we got Block, betting that context and coherence are AIs ultimate strength and integrating factor, making management obsolete as we know it:
Read: From Hierarchy to Intelligence
Interesting to watch who will come out on top.
IDEAS - Fun times. Ready for more fun? Explore and experience AIs limits by drawing things humans can guess and AI can't. Play: Deviation Game
Explore more. With a font readable by humans and und readable by AI: Write: Decoy Font
Enjoy your tea.
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