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Ethan Mollick writes about AI agents doing real work and a workflow for experts to delegate, review and retry tasks. He reports a paper’s estimates for speed and cost, and argues that people must decide which work is worth doing. Lies 3 Standpunkte mit Belegen und Links zu den Originalquellen.
Mollick says that AIs can now perform real, economically relevant work.
Unterstützendes Moment lesen · Absatz 2Mollick describes a workflow from an OpenAI paper: delegate a task to AI, review the result, try corrections or better instructions, and do the work yourself if those attempts fail. He reports the paper’s estimate that following this workflow would let experts finish work 40% faster and at 60% lower cost while retaining control over AI.
Unterstützendes Moment lesen · Absatz 16Mollick contrasts agents reproducing academic papers with producing unnecessary PowerPoint decks. He argues that people should use judgment to decide what work is worth doing, rather than only what AI can do.
Unterstützendes Moment lesen · Absatz 17Zugeordnete Passagen mit dem Kontext zur Überprüfung. Öffnen Sie den Originaltext, um die Quelle zu prüfen.
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AIs have quietly crossed a threshold: they can now perform real, economically relevant work.Originalauszug
The OpenAI paper suggested that experts can work with AI to solve problems by delegating tasks to an AI as a first pass and reviewing the work. If it isn’t good enough, they should try a couple of attempts to give corrections or better instructions. If that doesn’t work, they should just do the work themselves. If experts followed this workflow, the paper estimates they would get work done forty percent faster and sixty percent cheaper, and, even more importantly, retain control over the AI.If we don’t think hard about WHY we are doing work, and what work should look like, we are all going to drown in a wave of AI content. What is the alternative?
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Agents are here. They can do real work, and while that work is still limited, it is valuable and increasing. But the same technology that can replicate academic papers in minutes can also generate 17 versions of a PowerPoint deck that nobody needs. The difference between these futures isn’t in the AI, it’s in how we choose to use it. By using our judgement in deciding what’s worth doing, not just what can be done, we can ensure these tools make us more capable, not just more productive.Diese Standpunkte sind mit ihren Originalquellen verknüpft. Paraphrasen sind gekennzeichnet und keine wörtlichen Zitate.
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