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In the AI jobocalypse, what unique qualities can we bring to the table?

It’s not even 9am and I’ve read four articles about AI.

One is by a person who bemoans the fact that his past three careers have been taken by A.I. Another is a critique of Apple’s recent release of a research paper supposedly proving that AI isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. The third describes the seven other kinds of AI beyond the “Large Language Models” that are front and center of attention. And the fourth was a very nice analogy of the Star Wars IP with the current discourse around AI creations.

And of course my last piece here was about how LLM’s kind of give lie to our species’ vaunted “intellect.”

Are You Smarter Than an Ant?

I think it’s time to shift the focus from AI to humans.

By now we’ve all heard both the hype and the hysteria. With all the differences, I think there are at least two things that people agree on:

• LLMs and such are good enough at many things that people…