ChatGPT Nerd summary outline excerpts: The rookies are getting squeezed first. AI’s wings may be clipped for the inexperienced. AI’s impact isn’t quietly nibbling salaries—it’s knocking roles off the board entirely. When AI replaces rather than complements work, that's when the shockwaves are felt strongest. This isn’t a fluke in Silicon Valley or Zoom land—it’s a broader shift. (On the bright side, spotting the problem set allows the expert to solve it on the board: "And then a miracle occurs." Of course, the canary would be entry level in this one so, if that isn't chirping, it may have gone multimodal. See The Emotion Machine. But, just as the generative AI pioneers are trying economies that are off the screen, sort of crypto-codex, the next wave could be doing something like that on the ground in their regions. Not a disaster, but a sign of things to come, post-Capitalism. It's all been approved. Molon labe.)
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(AI did overlap Management Information Systems in the past. That was where utility was important as for IT. Now the proliferation of agents appears to be putting social media up to similar standards. Productivity remains difficult to measure. Each term is like a matrix, e.g. AI, productivity, scale, and it is a complex sum of emerging tech. Where does AI see daylight? What is Intelligence? Or for the post-anthro xeno types, what is Being? Common Sense? Universal Representation?)
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