What's the AI Endgame?

"The phrase is meant to describe how AI can be extremely and unexpectedly good at some human tasks and then also extremely and unexpectedly bad at others. Individually, this can mean that it's useful or even transformative for some people, while others see it as unnecessary, or even more akin to snake oil. For example: Large language models and especially coding agents have transformed the job of many programmers, making them more productive. That's not true of all industries though, especially creative ones, where there are moral or financial or creative reasons to object to its use."

"If you're having it do your brainstorming, like, your brainstorming muscles are going to get weaker. And my livelihood, my career is coming up with stuff. I gotta keep that. I gotta keep that sharp. Now maybe in five years, they'll just have an AI do my show. And the AI will generate all the takes, and the AI will talk, and I'll be out of a job. Fine. But until that happens, I don't want the AI doing that."

"There's this phrase that's coined by AI researchers that I can't get out of my head these days: It's called "the jagged frontier." The phrase is meant to apply to use cases and industries. In some ways it's an echo of the old cliché: "The future is here, b"

AI can be extremely and unexpectedly good at some human tasks while being extremely and unexpectedly bad at others. This uneven performance can make AI transformative for some people and industries while seeming unnecessary or even like snake oil to others. Large language models and coding agents can increase programmer productivity, but other industries, especially creative ones, may have moral, financial, or creative reasons to object. Using AI for brainstorming can weaken human brainstorming muscles, and career concerns can motivate limiting AI’s role until replacement becomes real. AI can be used to support creative thinking, while routine grunt work raises different concerns.

Read at The Atlantic