The Bypass Principle: How AI flows around obstacles
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AI will drive change, but even obvious obstacles may prove illusory. Expect advances to flow through new channels.
Adoption of LLMs as chatbots was nearly frictionless, but more consequential LLM applications have been slower to develop. Assessments of AI prospects must consider obstacles to change — the complexity of human tasks, the inertia of human organizations, and the time it will take to discover and apply real-world capabilities. Realists consider obstacles that enthusiasts may overlook. Yet advanced AI applications will expand, not just by overcoming obstacles, but by flowing around them, like rising water cutting new channels. This aspect of development — call it the “bypass principle” —…
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