Research on user centered innovation, technology & organizing, deviance & work all offer tactics here.

Sometimes (to contradict Ethan here a bit) orgs will get better/different discoveries when they don't pay, offer lottery access, or even ban! Constraint breeds inventiveness...

Wow. Just so excited about what I'm working on now - not least because of my incredible collaborators. You know who you are. More soon. And then more after that.

'Workers see a substantial productivity potential in ChatGPT, understand it substitutes for human expertise, and expect little cross-task substitution. Adoption is hindered ... by employer restrictions and required training, rather than existential fears of job redundancy'

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Much has been said about many companies’ desire for more compute (as well as data) to train larger foundation models. I think it’s under-appreciated that we have nowhere near enough compute available for inference on foundation models as well.

Years ago, when I was leading teams…

I’m really grateful that for the first time, LLMs have given us computers we can actually yell at, *and the computer gets it*

Some remarkable points: 100% adoption of ChatGPT in the legal team. Integration into core processes like dose distribution. A ton of custom GPTs for specific work flows. Scaling up necessitates AI assistance in lieu of hiring 100.000 employees.

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Gotta love Marines.

THIS would be great (esp. the professional organizations bit that follows).

What profession is going to lead here? Who owns your standards - you or big tech?

If organizations don’t change from new automation, jobs and the economy won’t change much.

Newer papers on this here:

open.substack.com/pub/mattbeane/…

Now on arxiv: arxiv.org/abs/2404.11794

Total code break for me, but I am absolutely gobsmacked by A Thousand Suns - a series of sci-fi shorts by Black Milk Studio. Figurative, evocative, and uncanny, where so much modern content hits you over the head. Wow.

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Earlier this week, Stanford Digital Fellow Matt Beane joined us for a fascinating talk about how workers and automation can complement each other.

Missed the seminar? Watch now 👇

digitaleconomy.stanford.edu/event/matt-bea…

Ah, finally. Analysis of LLM utility from someone who has writing AND coding expertise, and who took the time to try them out in these areas.

A critically important, all too rare complement to the frothy optimism and brimstoney pessimism out there.

Folks, please spread the word widely: My college is looking to hire someone who is an expert in 'the human impacts of digital technologies.' The role is a little funny, and I would be happy to talk with you about it. But you or a friend SHOULD APPLY.

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And this is at an Ethan Mollick talk (i.e., more forward looking than most)!!

This tracks with my recent talks.

Then if you ask how many folks are regular users, hands go down. Then ask how many have spent Ethan's 'three sleepless nights' (ch 1 in his new book) it's only a few.

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I'll do a longer thread---and this little toy example just scratches the surface of what's possible---but edsl (pip install edsl) is an open source python package & domain specific language for asking LLMs questions

I think this is a magnificent study. And there's more to this space than advisor/worker, imo. I think there's at least a proactive v reactive distinction - right now ChatGPT is reactive only. Devin is proactive. Differences could be stark. Or not!

Well, I fell for it. Assumed BD was backing off humanoid bots when they announced the retirement of the hydraulic Atlas robot.

No more parkour for now (at best, electric actuators have half the force density of hydraulics), but this system can do new things! Cool.