@gabriel1: we're reached a point where AIs effect on GDP is significantly more bottlenecked on people understanding how to push it…
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A tweet arguing that AI's impact on GDP is now more limited by user understanding than by model intelligence, as most people outside tech use AI only as a lookup or review tool.
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we’re reached a point where AIs effect on GDP is significantly more bottlenecked on people understanding how to push it to it’s limits than model intelligence
at best, people outside tech and sf use it as a fancy information lookup tool or automated reviewing
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