Gerd Leonhard

May 31, 2023

Fluff fueled by ai

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/28/opinion/artificial-intelligence-thinking-minds-concentration.html


Marcela Martin, BuzzFeed’s president, encapsulated my next worry nicely when she told investors, “Instead of generating 10 ideas in a minute, A.I. can generate hundreds of ideas in a second.” She meant that as a good thing, but is it? Imagine that multiplied across the economy. Someone somewhere will have to process all that information. What will this do to productivity?