Jim Wiedman

We can focus on more than one thing at a time. If this had been reported at the time, no one would be interested now.

This would have the added benefit of allowing me to learn to use AI more effectively, while the AI is learning to support me more effectively.

For your questions 2 and 3, we need to erase the distinction between AI as co-worker, AI as Tutor, and AI as Coach (three of the last chapters in your book). The lines between working and learning need to be blurred so that the AI that is helping me learn is also the AI that is helping me work.

Inside the Y2K Crisis That Never Was, 25 Years Later (Gift Article) Planes didn’t fall from the sky on Jan. 1, 2000. A technology reporter who wrote a front-page article early that morning reflects on a crisis that never was.

This is an example of an excellent article under a truly awful headline.

www.nytimes.com/2024/12/31/i...

In a broader sense, this is an excellent example why a failure to understand the history of a problem can directly lead to complacently falling victim to similar problems.

Thanks for sharing this. Your comment, the shared thread, and the article it’s based on have given me a lot to think about. Problems that are successfully averted often lead to the perception that they were never real, and that feels like a critical communication issue we need to solve.

Just got it from Audible. Thanks for sharing it here!

Why haven’t major AI companies launched a service similar to an App Store, where we can subscribe to our favorite content creators like NY Times, HBR, JAMA, etc., for our GenAI queries? It’d enhance LLM results and support creators. What’s the hold-up?