My friend Dave and I are having a conversation about AI, we share links about the subject. It is interesting because we have different points of view. He is a strategist, and I am just a humble mechanical engineer.
An engineer starts by learning a lot about very little and goes on learning more and more about less and less until he, or she, knows everything about nothing. In contrast strategists start by learning a little bit about a lot of things and go on learning less and less about more and more until they know nothing about everything.
With Dave’s help there is a lot to think about. He shared some scary links from Axios:
AI Jagged Frontier, ChatGPT and
AI Jobs, White Collar Unemployment, Anthropic
When we discussed them, I described my quest and some recent experiences. The next day he shared another link from Axios:
AI Cheat Sheet, ChatGPT Grok Gemini Claude
and said: “This is exactly the same as you were talking about yesterday.”
So, we have different points of view like chalk and cheese, Jack Sprat and his wife. Dave is more cheese and Ms Sprat, so I must be chalk and roast beef. Although we probably both miss Durgin Park’s prime rib, an unequalled helping of rare beef and fat.
Another thing we agree on is that the AI giants’ goal seems to be to learn everything about everything, but that they haven’t quite figured out what to do when they get there. The Sprats, and the rest of us, will have to make up our own minds. Hence the need for more strategy and exploration.