If you've adopted AI at your company but haven't seen any tangible results, read this 1990 article: "The Dynamo and the Computer" by Paul David.
When electricity first arrived, factories that "adopted" it barely got faster. They just swapped the steam engine for an electric one and ran everything else exactly as before: same machine layout, same workflow, same management. Electricity in, no real gains out.
The most common mistake with any new technology is to drop it into the old organization and then declare the transformation done.
The real leap came decades later, when each machine got its own small motor. Suddenly machines no longer had to be lined up around one central drive shaft. They could be rearranged around the actual flow of work.
The productivity gains didn't come from electricity. They came from REDESIGNING THE ENTIRE FACTORY around it.
AI is the same. Bolting it onto your existing process gets you a faster steam engine. The payoff comes when you redesign the work itself.
(link to paper in comments)
"We want AI agents that can discover like we can, not which contain what we have discovered. Building in our discoveries only makes it harder to see how the discovering process can be done." https://t.co/uMRbXjbYst
Milionário e José Rico, a China e a intelectualidade brasileira
Em meados da década de 80, Milionário e José Rico eram uma das principais duplas do sertanejo brasileiro, gênero que estava em vias de se nacionalizar e virar o grande fenômeno musical do país. 👇🏾
@luizsperry E de pensar que tínhamos marcado uma cerveja poucos dias antes do seu aniversário de um ano atrás. Até hoje não rolou. Parabéns e grande abraço.
1/3 O livro da @malugaspar descreve Marcelo Odebrecht indignado por que a empresa tinha feito tanto pelo governo e este não tinha retribuído. Investimentos em Etanol, construção de estaleiro na Bahia, investimento em empresa de defesa, pagamento de ágio pelo Galeão, etc
Para os cem anos de Clarisse Lispector, o @brazil_lab produziu uma jóia: um memorial sonoro ilustrado e textos da escritora brasileira mais lida do mundo, na voz de Chico Buarque, Antônio Calloni e muitos outros admiradores.
https://t.co/SYC0umE5be
In the UK the number of cases rose rapidly.
But the public – and authorities – are only learning this now because these cases were only published now as a backlog.
The reason was apparently that the database is managed in Excel and the number of columns had reached the maximum.