Thanks! I found this the most helpful of the answers so far. I’d be interested to hear more about leveraging AI tools for direct work; can you say more?
I see people on twitter, for example, doing things like having GPT-3 provide autocomplete or suggestions while they’re writing, or doing grunt work of producing web apps. Plausibly, figuring out how to get the most value out of future AI developments for improving productivity is important.
There’s an issue that it’s not very obvious exactly how to prepare for various AI tools in the future. One piece of work could be thinking more about how to flexibly prepare for AI tools with unknown capabilities, or predicting what the capabilities will be.
Other things that come to mind are:
Practice getting up to speed in new tool setups. If you are very bound to a setup that you like, you might have a hard time leveraging these advances as they come along. Alternatively, try and be sure you can extend your current workflow
Increase the attention you pay to new (AI) tools. Get used to trying them out, both for the reasons above and because it may be important to act fast in picking up very helpful new tools
To be clear, it’s not super clear to me how much value there is in this direction. It is pretty plausible to me that AI tooling will be essential for competitive future productivity, but maybe there’s not much of an opportunity to bet on that
Thanks! I found this the most helpful of the answers so far. I’d be interested to hear more about leveraging AI tools for direct work; can you say more?
Sure!
I see people on twitter, for example, doing things like having GPT-3 provide autocomplete or suggestions while they’re writing, or doing grunt work of producing web apps. Plausibly, figuring out how to get the most value out of future AI developments for improving productivity is important.
There’s an issue that it’s not very obvious exactly how to prepare for various AI tools in the future. One piece of work could be thinking more about how to flexibly prepare for AI tools with unknown capabilities, or predicting what the capabilities will be.
Other things that come to mind are:
Practice getting up to speed in new tool setups. If you are very bound to a setup that you like, you might have a hard time leveraging these advances as they come along. Alternatively, try and be sure you can extend your current workflow
Increase the attention you pay to new (AI) tools. Get used to trying them out, both for the reasons above and because it may be important to act fast in picking up very helpful new tools
To be clear, it’s not super clear to me how much value there is in this direction. It is pretty plausible to me that AI tooling will be essential for competitive future productivity, but maybe there’s not much of an opportunity to bet on that