This was a great conversation!
Ethan Mollick discusses AI capability progress and macroeconomic impact on a podcast
AIEthan Mollick says on a podcast with David Thompson that the main post's "great conversation" covered why experts underrate the pace of model capability gains and overrate how fast AI will reshape the macroeconomy. The discussion also touched on AI agents, the end of prompting, 2027 predictions, and Mollick's book CO-EXISTENCE.
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New pod: 'YOU'RE NOT AGI-PILLED ENOUGH' I asked @emollick to tell me what I'm getting wrong about AI. We also talked about: - why so many experts keep underrating the rate of progress for model capabilities - why so many experts keep *overrating* how rapidly powerful AI will change the macroeconomy - why the answer to the previous question starts with "O-rings and garbage cans" - the sociology of AI swarms - the paradoxes of AI use (or: 'every technological augmentation is also an amputation,' per McLuhan) - the end of prompting (or: what happens if personal AI agents get so good at anticipating our needs that humans, once the prompter, become the prompted) - 2027 predictions and ... his excellent new book CO-EXISTENCE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zthE5Oa8mlM&t=1sView quoted post on X
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Original title: This was a great conversation!