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Aiglatson, Strategic Foresight

Use Your Illusion: AI loves tech and you don’t have to

I recently read a paper that was able to quantitatively illustrate something I already knew from qualitative experience: LLMs love tech: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016328725001673?via%3Dihub. Even when I ask it for social trends or political trends, it ends up giving me technology trends. LLMs are trained and programmed by techno-optimists. So, it should be no surprise that everybody's … Continue reading Use Your Illusion: AI loves tech and you don’t have to

Aiglatson, Strategic Foresight

Hallucinations are the Feature, Not the Bug

We're coming up on the third year of LLM hype after ChatGPT 3.5 launched in November 2022. At the time, everyone was struggling to understand the technology and its implications for society in the present and the future. The primary thing that I have learned since joining the team to integrate LLMs into Shaping Tomorrow: … Continue reading Hallucinations are the Feature, Not the Bug

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Augmenting White-Collar Work & the Dangers of Blind Trust in Automation

I recently sat down with Peggy Smedley to discuss the work I do with Shaping Tomorrow to augment my work as a strategic futurist with various forms of automation including LLMs which are often called Gen-AI. Peggy Smedley Show: Disrupting White-Collar Work: https://peggysmedleyshow.com/disrupting-white-collar-work Now, let me give you some context: While my wife and I … Continue reading Augmenting White-Collar Work & the Dangers of Blind Trust in Automation