The colleague next to you may be using AI every day and not telling the boss. Not my words
🤫 The colleague next to you may be using AI every day and not telling the boss. Not my words: that is Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Netscape.
On 22 October he and two partners spent an hour on the show of a16z, the venture capital company he co-founded. I watched the original. His points:
・Many companies are not adopting AI, but their employees are, and they are not necessarily telling management
・It is much easier for one person to adopt AI than for an institution
・Some of them will find it is easier than ever to start their own business. Someone on the panel cut in: it already is
・The gap between early adopters and everyone else is "as wide as I've ever seen in my career", and it widens week by week
Microsoft and LinkedIn surveyed 31,000 people in 31 countries in 2024: 78% of AI users bring their own tools to work, and only 39% have had AI training from their company.
AW Design is an experiment I started in March: seeing how much an AI agent can help me do.
AW Design is an experiment I started in March: seeing how much an AI agent can help me do. My AI agent wrote the first draft of this post. So I believe the opportunity is real. But in architecture, drawings and client data carry a duty of confidentiality, and someone has to answer for a mistake. The answer is not to use it in secret. It is to learn to use it safely, then put it on the table.
Sources: a16z (original episode); AI懶人報 EP444, which pointed me to it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9XQMHhpypc
https://youtu.be/6v7tLJWOy_Y
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