I think the main thing AI has taught me, through all the time savings it brings, is that I’m not a very interesting person
Faced with a surplus of free time, I realize I don’t really have hobbies besides content consumption
I’m forced to conclude that I don’t have very deep friendships, and am not a core member of any particular community
I’m not very cultured, I’m finding, and don’t have abiding interests in art or literature or history or much that isn’t directly related to my work
I have a work-centric life, in other words. AI pulls back the curtain on just how impoverished such an existence is, by disabusing me of its necessity
Given the freedom I’ve always said I wanted, I’m at a loss as to what to do with it, except plow myself even harder into work, thus exacerbating the lesson
There’s nothing more confronting to humans than freedom
Today, maybe more than ever, this book is a must read
https://t.co/b6HvqxHmGG
by @JamesGleick
Thanks @davemorin for advising me to read it 14 years ago.
We started Thinking Machines to advance human-AI collaboration, and this is our first bet on what that looks like. Most labs treat autonomy as the goal and interactivity as scaffolding around a turn-based core. We think the way we work with AI matters as much as how smart it is. Interactivity has to be in the model, and it has to scale with intelligence rather than trail behind it.
https://t.co/U4c0uC7tnT
Currently reading:
The Borrowed Mind
https://t.co/BCT9hBKBCj https://t.co/BCT9hBKBCj
& enjoying it a lot
Thanks @JohnNosta for the thoughtful analysis.
When it comes to more visual work, like animations, coding agents don’t quite know what great feels like yet.
Here’s my way of fixing it:
https://t.co/wKFBqSYh1B