We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely āE.O. Wilson
Yet another transition as technology progresses. Embracing the power of AI by automating tasks and anticipating disruptions is as essential as it is inevitable. Interestingly, it seems that proving human-ness in the age of AI is increasingly challenging; we must embrace the power of AI while maintaining a firm grasp on our humanity and the significance of collaboration in shaping what will be an exciting future.
The Present Disruption in Three Papers
And every worker should be spending time figuring out how to use these general-purpose tools to their advantage. They should be thinking about how to automate their job to remove the tedious and uncreative parts, and getting a sense for the disruption to come before the organizations they work for realize the full implications of AI. They may also want to consider what to do with the extra time they may be creating as a result of their experiments. We are in the early days of AI but disruption is already happening. Thereās no instruction manual. No one has answers yet. The key is to learn fast.
Ethan Mollick | 7 minutes
On the internet, nobody knows youāre a human
But thereās no way for Nicole to prove it because how does one prove their own humanity? While AI tools have accelerated exponentially, our best method for proving someone is who they say they are is still something rudimentary, like when a celebrity posts a photo with a handwritten sign for a Reddit AMA ā or, wait,Ā is that them, or is it just a deepfake? While developersĀ like OpenAI itself have released āclassifierā tools for detecting if a piece of text was written by an AI, any advance in CAPTCHA tools has a fatal flaw: the more people use computers to prove theyāre human, the smarter computers get at mimicking them.
Kate Lindsay | 7 minutes
Collaboration Secrets: Design X Engineering
When the leading role shifts,Ā this should not be seen as a handover;Ā instead, the weights of the roles shift. When design is driving, engineering takes the front passenger seat and vice versa, but the collaboration should always continue. The Scale is not a one-time cycle either. Design and engineering will engage in a dance where the expertise of the disciplines dictate whoās in charge.Ā This dance is the DNA of any successful tech team.Ā We call this theĀ DNE of the tech team ā Design and Engineering ā shifting weights and collaborating throughout the lifespan of a product or feature.
In Spotify Design | 9 minutes
Designing a 10-star Experience
Design is how something fundamentally works. Design makes the complex simple and it focuses on every single detail. Design is really about understanding the essence. Itās a way to think about the world. Designers tend to want to zoom out and be very very holistic. I do think that that holistic thinking affected everything. It changed how we ran the company, we learned how to be really good storytellers, a lot of people that build products they understand stories. It helped to understand how we make our products, it was really kind of everything. The fact that I went to design school and ran a giant tech company is a weird anomaly.
Brian Chesky in Stanford Graduate School of Business | 56 minutes