Curated. I’m still a bit confused about how Sahil’s ideas about “co-agency” will play in practice, as AI capabilities get more extreme. (i.e. see Gwern’s Tool AIs want to be Agent AIs).
But, I like all the individual nearterm pieces of this vision (i.e. trying to build a culture around building tools that help your specific workflow), and I like the concept of trying to steer toward designs that empower, but in practice there sure are a lot of places I (viscerally) really want the AI to do the stuff for me.
A thing that bubbles up for me is “empowerment” mindset, where I see some new tool and instead of merely thinking “what problems can I make go away magically”, I think “what new awesome things can I do, that build on this?”. Another lens is is that I’ve been doing more “hiring contractors to build stuff for me” lately, and having an AI do it isn’t fundamentally different. Hiring people to help you with stuff can be part of agency… but it can also end up infantalizing if you do it wrong. (i.e. hiring an ops person to do a lots of your bullshit work and then ending up the sort of person who struggles to do their own paperwork when they need to).
I’d be interested in someone building a prototype of something filling the niche of a AI chatbot interface but somehow feels more in-control.
Curated. I’m still a bit confused about how Sahil’s ideas about “co-agency” will play in practice, as AI capabilities get more extreme. (i.e. see Gwern’s Tool AIs want to be Agent AIs).
But, I like all the individual nearterm pieces of this vision (i.e. trying to build a culture around building tools that help your specific workflow), and I like the concept of trying to steer toward designs that empower, but in practice there sure are a lot of places I (viscerally) really want the AI to do the stuff for me.
A thing that bubbles up for me is “empowerment” mindset, where I see some new tool and instead of merely thinking “what problems can I make go away magically”, I think “what new awesome things can I do, that build on this?”. Another lens is is that I’ve been doing more “hiring contractors to build stuff for me” lately, and having an AI do it isn’t fundamentally different. Hiring people to help you with stuff can be part of agency… but it can also end up infantalizing if you do it wrong. (i.e. hiring an ops person to do a lots of your bullshit work and then ending up the sort of person who struggles to do their own paperwork when they need to).
I’d be interested in someone building a prototype of something filling the niche of a AI chatbot interface but somehow feels more in-control.