by John Macdonald | Apr 18, 2025 | AI, The250
Here’s a cool little experiment that the people at The Hustle did: they used AI to replace the CEOs at several companies and compared what AI would do to what they actually did. Same company. Same data. Same market conditions. It’s a fun... by John Macdonald | Apr 17, 2025 | AI, The250
I’m wordy. Especially when I’m thinking and talking at the same time. That’s a recipe for disaster. So I ramble. And I can see the eyes glazing over. I’m much better when I can dump it all out of my head, roll it around, experiment, and... by John Macdonald | Apr 15, 2025 | AI, The250
AI is probably better at grammar than you but has no idea what to write about.AI is probably better at Python syntax than you but has no idea what the application should do.AI is probably better at Excel formulas than you but has no idea why it needs a spreadsheet.AI... by John Macdonald | Apr 10, 2025 | AI, The250
We’re built to cooperate. Heck, you learned it in kindergarten, but let’s face it, you didn’t need to learn it. You already knew it. We comunicate, coordinate, and generally work together towards some cooperative goal. Even when we are singular and... by John Macdonald | Apr 3, 2025 | AI, The250
“…a lot of work is really boring and not particularly meaningful. If we acknowledge that, we can turn our attention to improving the human experience of work.”- Ethan Mollick, Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI This is one of the... by John Macdonald | Mar 30, 2025 | AI, The250
Here’s some gold from Tyler Cowen regarding current AI and why it’s already good at economics: “…Good chains of reasoning in economics are not too long and complicated. …The length of these effective reasoning chains is well...