@gabriel1: me: *getting increasingly lost in abstractions and excitement about the future of work with ai* them: "so... is it like…
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A tweet discusses the challenge of explaining AI to non-tech audiences and asserts that AI adoption has not yet truly begun.
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me: getting increasingly lost in abstractions and excitement about the future of work with ai
them: “so… is it like a desktop application that i install?”
gabriel (@gabriel1): mamma mia i have never tried to explained ai to someone outside sf before
we are not early, it literally has not even started
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