![]() ![]() Or imagine it’s 1879 and you see an incandescent light bulb flutter to life in Thomas Edison’s lab in New Jersey. That is the kind of description that would have allowed an 18th-century writer to predict the future. It was a lever for detaching economic growth from population growth. The steam engine wasn’t just a water pump. But this accurate description would be far too narrow to see the big picture. You might say: “This is a device for pumping water out of coal mines.” And that would be true. Recently I gave myself an assignment: Come up with a framework for explaining generative AI, such as ChatGPT, in a way that illuminates the full potential of the technology and helps me make predictions about its future.īy analogy, imagine that it’s the year 1780 and you get a glimpse of an early English steam engine. This is Work in Progress, a newsletter by Derek Thompson about work, technology, and how to solve some of America’s biggest problems. ![]()
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