Mina Kimes

For some people, the light bulb is 1 million watts.

And for some people, it's somewhere in the middle.

And so because this technology is so weird and jagged and incredibly exquisitely sensitive to the individual's prompt, it's very hard to explain what it does for everybody because there's no single universal answer that you can give.

Yeah, I...

I would say this.

So the original question was like, is this actually useful for our jobs, right?

And the Goldilocks zone you're describing, there are applications even in my current job.

There certainly would have been more applications, I think, back when I was a writer.

But even now, like I was at the Combine and a prospect ran the fastest 40 time ever.

For a tight end.

And it's quicker to me to open Clod and say, what are the fastest 40 times ever by a tight end over six foot whatever than for me to try to use Google, which is, of course, useless now, to figure it out.

So as like a super Google quick, it is absolutely useful.

And I do think a lot of people experience that same utility experience.

in just trying to research things in their ordinary lives.

But I think an important distinction, especially when you're thinking about generative AI, is does this help me do my job versus does this help me do my job better or well?

And that's where I think is another layer to all of this because my experience is that there's not only a limit in terms of actually getting the answers we talked about because of the access I have to databases, but if I was to lean on it excessively, I would be bad at my job.

And this is why when I look at data, when I have a question and I'm like, let me see, you know, if I tweak this and this and this, or I want to see which running back in this scenario, whatever, the process of looking it up is as important for me to do my job well as the output is.

when I see the numbers and I start toggling the filters and I start ruling guys out and I go down rabbit paths and I add extra, you know, that is how I actually arrive at my insights is not by entering a question and getting an answer.

Similarly, when I was a writer, I could have used generative AI to spit out an outline and then write off that.

But the process of outlining, I feel, is what made my stories better and allowed me to work through my thoughts.