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
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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
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
I reflect on the past decade of using AI in my foresight work. While GenAI is valuable, it cannot replace human creativity. Emphasizing accountability, I argue that unemployment concerns focus more on corporate profit than tech capabilities, stressing the importance of human dignity and conscious choices in AI use.
Is technological unemployment really necessary or even viable? That’s a much bigger question than I currently have time to research. However, my co-author, Marco Bevolo, and I begin to address the issues in our latest essay, Automating Liminality in Foresight Practice. In it, we explore how “hallucinations” brought on by AI could be a catalyst for … Continue reading Automating Liminality
