View profile for Stephen Horn

Chief Executive Officer of WebsEdge.

I don’t think that AI needs to be all or nothing—we can still achieve incredible improvements in productivity and innovation without AGI. But how can we work to integrate our existing strengths with this new technology to achieve maximum output? In my opinion, it’s all about process redesign. When electricity first arrived, many factories simply swapped their steam engine for a single dynamo generator - but they kept the old line-shaft and belt layout, which resulted in no productivity gains. It was only when factories were redesigned so that each machine had its own small electric motor that productivity truly began to increase. On our most recent episode of Agents of Tech, I spoke with Gary Marcus about doing the same with AI; as well as distinguishing between what the studies say vs. the hype. Want to hear more of our conversation? Listen to full episode linked in the comments below. I’m also curious to know, do you feel like AI has made people faster or better? Feel free to drop a quick note in the comments about a task AI has improved for you (or not).

The electricity analogy is perfect. We're seeing the same thing with AI. Slapping a chatbot on a broken process doesn't fix it. The real gains come from fundamentally redesigning the process itself with AI as a core component. That's where repeatability pays off.

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