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Mina Kimes

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
4557 total appearances

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Pablo Torre Finds Out
Share & Bubble & Tell with Mina Kimes and Derek Thompson

And I think that is something that

Pablo Torre Finds Out
Share & Bubble & Tell with Mina Kimes and Derek Thompson

people are figuring out when they use these technologies is, yeah, if you want to just do a crappy job, it could do it.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
Share & Bubble & Tell with Mina Kimes and Derek Thompson

But most of us should want more than that, I think.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
Share & Bubble & Tell with Mina Kimes and Derek Thompson

And that's been my experience in playing around with these tools.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
Share & Bubble & Tell with Mina Kimes and Derek Thompson

Pablo, can I jump in there?

Pablo Torre Finds Out
Share & Bubble & Tell with Mina Kimes and Derek Thompson

Because I just love this point that Mina made.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
Share & Bubble & Tell with Mina Kimes and Derek Thompson

And I think it's like one of the most important points that someone can make about this technology, which is this capacity for overuse of AI to lead to a kind of cognitive atrophy.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
Share & Bubble & Tell with Mina Kimes and Derek Thompson

The most memorable thing that I heard here was,

Pablo Torre Finds Out
Share & Bubble & Tell with Mina Kimes and Derek Thompson

is, I think it was a Substack essay, where someone was pointing out the distinction between a job and a gym.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
Share & Bubble & Tell with Mina Kimes and Derek Thompson

And they said, with a job, the point is to get the work done.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
Share & Bubble & Tell with Mina Kimes and Derek Thompson

But at a gym, the point is to lift the weight.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
Share & Bubble & Tell with Mina Kimes and Derek Thompson

You can't go to the gym and ask somebody else to bench 135 and tell yourself that you sort of bench 135 because you asked somebody else to do it.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
Share & Bubble & Tell with Mina Kimes and Derek Thompson

No, your muscles will atrophy day after day, week after week, if you turn going to the gym to going to the gym to ask somebody else to lift the weights.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
Share & Bubble & Tell with Mina Kimes and Derek Thompson

I think lots of people use AI to help them do their job, to just get the job done faster.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
Share & Bubble & Tell with Mina Kimes and Derek Thompson

But Mina's totally right.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
Share & Bubble & Tell with Mina Kimes and Derek Thompson

There's no question that especially we can already see this at the high school and college level.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
Share & Bubble & Tell with Mina Kimes and Derek Thompson

People are using this to lift the weight.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
Share & Bubble & Tell with Mina Kimes and Derek Thompson

They're using it to write the essays.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
Share & Bubble & Tell with Mina Kimes and Derek Thompson

They're using it to do the research.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
Share & Bubble & Tell with Mina Kimes and Derek Thompson

Journalists, I'm sure, are using it to write their outlines.