When I say "generative AI isn't going away," people hear "and you have to like it." You don't, and you might be right not to. But the is-ought divide here is real and we should all be preparing for both outcomes.
Last time out on this topic, I threw around the term "cognitive exponent" a bunch. Today I'd like to talk about a thing that might help us figure out who's on the positive side of that exponent graph.
I know a few people for whom LLMs have been a near-immediate multiplier of attention and effort. I know a lot for whom LLMs clearly make them worse at thinking and doing things. So: why?
An LLM lied about me at the office and I'm cranky about it. That interaction makes me think a lot about how LLMs are becoming normalized, though, and what we're looking at in terms of their role in human-to-human interactions in the future.
