More is different for intelligence - by Fulcrum Inc
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Agents, software, and latent cognitive flows
In the 1900s, much of the work being done by knowledge workers was computation: searching, sorting, calculating, tracking. Software made this work orders of magnitude cheaper and faster. Naively, one might expect businesses and institutions to carry out largely the same processes, just more efficiently1. But rather, the proliferation of software has also allowed for new kinds of processes. Instead of reordering inventory when shelves looked empty, supply chains began replenishing automatically based on real-time demand. Instead of valuing stocks quarterly, financial markets started pricing…
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