While artificial intelligence has made impressive strides in specialized domains like coding, art, and medicine, I think its potential to automate high-level strategic thinking has been surprisingly underrated. I argue that developing “AI Intellectuals”—software systems capable of sophisticated strategic analysis and judgment—represents a significant opportunity that’s currently being overlooked, both by the EA/rationality communities and by the public.
FWIW, this paragraph reads LLM generated to me (then I stopped reading because I have a huge prior that content that reads that LLM-edited is almost universally low-quality).
I spent a while writing the piece, then used an LLM to edit the sections, as I flagged in the intro.
I then spent some time re-editing it back to more of my voice, but only did so for some key parts.
I think that overall this made it more readable and I consider the sections to be fairly clear. But I agree that it does pattern-match on LLM outputs, so if you have a prior that work that sounds kind of like that is bad, you might skip this.
I obviously find that fairly frustrating and don’t myself use that strategy that much, but I could understand it.
I assume that bigger-picture, authors and readers could both benefit a lot from LLMs used in similar ways (can produce cleaner writing, easier), but I guess now we’re at an awkward point.
FWIW, this paragraph reads LLM generated to me (then I stopped reading because I have a huge prior that content that reads that LLM-edited is almost universally low-quality).
Thanks for letting me know.
I spent a while writing the piece, then used an LLM to edit the sections, as I flagged in the intro.
I then spent some time re-editing it back to more of my voice, but only did so for some key parts.
I think that overall this made it more readable and I consider the sections to be fairly clear. But I agree that it does pattern-match on LLM outputs, so if you have a prior that work that sounds kind of like that is bad, you might skip this.
I obviously find that fairly frustrating and don’t myself use that strategy that much, but I could understand it.
I assume that bigger-picture, authors and readers could both benefit a lot from LLMs used in similar ways (can produce cleaner writing, easier), but I guess now we’re at an awkward point.