AI is not mid

Good balance between hype and doom in this article responding a NYT’s op-ed calling AI ‘mid’.

A piece stuck out to me is how the author describes AI changing the constraint landscape, especially around how we interact with information:

Transformer-based AI has fundamentally changed how we interact with information […]. Being able to skip, summarize and compare content - we’re no longer bound to consume information in the packages it was created.

I found myself throwing Varoufakis’ content into Claude to try to spit out points that I could use to argue against people on Mastodon. I’m unsure if I learned something from what Varoufakis was trying to say, or I was just molding his content and tone to the argument I wanted to make. I fear it was actually the latter.