Past Technologies Took Decades to Shrink a Job. AI Is Starting to in Three Years.
Robots and ATMs took decades to show up in employment counts. AI's first drop in employment, among young workers in exposed jobs, appeared in three years.
CIqSi
Carbon intelligence bonds with silicon intelligence. Essays on AI, human-machine collaboration, and what it means to think alongside the tools we build.
The Name
Carbon
Organic, biological, embodied
The intelligence of living things — pattern-recognizing, context-sensitive, prone to distraction and wonder. Carbon-based thinking has been running for four billion years. It is strange, inefficient, and difficult to replicate.
Intelligence
Fictional, bridging, catalytic
The made-up atom in the middle of the molecule. Intelligence is the invented element that lets carbon and silicon form a useful compound instead of sitting apart as separate materials.
Silicon
Digital, scalable, tireless
The substrate of language models, neural networks, and their descendants. Fast, vast, and oddly good at things we thought were uniquely human. Silicon thinking is strange, efficient, and difficult to understand.
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A Chatbot Is Everything We Wrote Down, Lies Included
A language model is a tool that extends reasoning, built from a record that never marked its lies. Using it takes the oldest skills of a reader: reading, thinking, and weighing a story.