AI Is an Assistant, Not a Replacement:
“…even the most powerful of today’s AI chatbots are at best assistants for humans—not replacements….
The insurmountable limitations of today’s AI systems mean that they almost always require, at minimum, human supervision. And in the overwhelming majority of cases, AIs are merely tools requiring that we actively wield them. Power tools may have been one of the defining innovations of the Industrial Revolution, but no one would call the steam drill a robot, much less an autonomous one.”
— How to AI, p. 7
There’s a Huge “capability overhang” of undiscovered abilities in current AIs
This week’s column in the WSJ:
There is a huge gap between what AI can already do today and what most people are actually doing with it:
“Users of Claude Code, Anthropic’s software-writing AI system, recently discovered a way to create finished, bug-free programs without human intervention. (One of the originators was the aforementioned Australian goatherd.) …
This discovery is a great example of “capability overhang,” says Ethan Mollick, a professor of innovation and entrepreneurship at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School and a leading authority on generative AI.”