this is my favorite still from the Apple goggles demo video. this is the pain you feel when your eyes aren't fully bathed in glorious 4k screen content
@cwarzel
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AI Jobs Future and Workplace Productivity Transformation
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this is along the lines of the AI jobs future I was trying to sketch in my column this week https://
theatlantic.com/technology/arc
hive/2023/05/ai-chatgpt-productivity-work/674090/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
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AI Future More Like Bain Company Than Skynet
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anyhow…i don't think the near term AI future is Skynet…i think it's probably like Bain & Company
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Workplace AI and the endless productivity paradox
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Workplace AI feels like the purest distillation of a corrosive ideology that demands frictionless productivity from workers: The easier our labor becomes, the more of it we can do, and the more of it we’ll be expected to do.
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AI Productivity Grind: Beyond Apocalypse Narratives
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I think that getting hung up on an AGI apocalypse or total job replacement is actually *less* imaginative than thinking about the way that generative AI is going to grind us all down by forcing us to be productivity robots
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Generative AI Reduces Content Production Cost, Drives Algorithmic Mill Consumption
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no mention that there's any generative AI making this stuff…but it seems like a preview of the type of media you get when you drive the cost of producing content to basically zero. it's not really news for people, just grist for the algorithmic mills that ppl end up consuming
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Campaign Tech Automation: Money, Hype, and Limited Real Impact
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automating backend campaign tech stuff…sure! will some of that matter? maybe! will some weird shit happen that seems wild and makes news but ultimately has little effect on outcomes? most likely. but lord ppl are gonna make so much money swindling out of touch campaign managers
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AI hype in politics: meaningless but exhausting
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the AI hype in the political realm is going to be a whole new level of exhausting/stupid. like, this means nothing. not a thing. https://
axios.com/2023/04/29/how
-ai-already-changing-2024-election
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Early Platform Adoption: Social Dynamics Without Reputational Incentives
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i…don’t actually know? and i think that’s part of it? i think that early on there’s very little to be gained on a platform (reputationally, monetarily) so people are just weird? but what’s kind of fun is that it seems like most people already know each other through this website

