petergasston.co.uk
Londoner, digital technology enthusiast, generalist, humanist, protopist, left-of-centrist, not a futurist.
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If last season’s anything to go by I’m less concerned about the fixtures than I am about whatever bullshit rule change we get punished for in the first few weeks.
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Fuck me, you're actually capable of saying something positive.
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“Unless you’re an extreme power user, asking AI questions every day is still a rounding error on your total electricity footprint. If we’re fretting over a few queries a day while having a beef burger for dinner, heating our homes with a gas boiler, and driving a petrol car, we will get nowhere.”
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I talk a lot about capability overhang: we have these powerful new tools but we’re mostly not taking advantage of them; we’re just applying them to the ways we already work instead of imagining completely new ways to work.
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And that’s backed up by a new study, “Large Language Models, Small Labor Market Effects”, that shows that while a lot of people are using AI tools, they’re mostly only using them for small tasks, and there are currently little-to-no economic gains shown. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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This is an interesting chart from it: while there’s been a lot of invention, a lot of innovation, and even a lot of adoption, we’re still in the early stages of diffusion: we haven’t yet adapted our workflows, it hasn’t become integral to the ways we work.
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It sort of makes me want to buy a PS5 Pro to get the maximum effect…
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You can see the difference in this screen grab comparison: