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Ryan Swindall
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Bill Gates: "Anyone who analogizes AI to other technologies is missing that this time is different — it exceeds human cognition across nearly every domain."
It's a comforting instinct, isn't it? When something big shows up, we reach for the last thing that looked like it. The internet. The smartphone. Electricity. We tell ourselves, "We've seen this movie before, we know how it ends."
But that instinct is exactly what trips us up here.
Every past technology extended what humans could do. This one steps into the thing we thought was ours alone — reasoning, judgment, the act of figuring something out. That's not a faster horse. That's a different kind of animal.
The past is comforting, but it's also there to fool you if you assume this is just another wave. The people building it won't even forecast a year out anymore. That should tell us something.
You don't have to have it all figured out. You just have to stop pretending it's familiar.
Curious how you're thinking about this moment — is AI "just another tool" to you, or something different? Tell me in the comments. 👇 #AIStrategy
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Bill Gates: "Anyone who analogizes AI to other technologies is missing that this time is different — it exceeds human cognition across nearly every domain."
It's a comforting instinct, isn't it? When something big shows up, we reach for the last thing that looked like it. The internet. The smartphone. Electricity. We tell ourselves, "We've seen this movie before, we know how it ends."
But that instinct is exactly what trips us up here.
Every past technology extended what humans could do. This one steps into the thing we thought was ours alone — reasoning, judgment, the act of figuring something out. That's not a faster horse. That's a different kind of animal.
The past is comforting, but it's also there to fool you if you assume this is just another wave. The people building it won't even forecast a year out anymore. That should tell us something.
You don't have to have it all figured out. You just have to stop pretending it's familiar.
Curious how you're thinking about this moment — is AI "just another tool" to you, or something different? Tell me in the comments. 👇 #AIStrategy