AI legibility, physical archives, and the future of research

·Res Obscura··

Pradyumna Prasad, a computer science PhD student at the National University of Singapore, recently made what I thought was a very perceptive observation about where AI and knowledge work is headed:If your job is legible enough that people can make a dataset clearly pointing out what is right and what is wrong, you are at the highest risk for an AI model being ‘superhuman’ at your job. It is even more risky if it is possible to articulate your thought process in a way that is verifiable.Looking a...

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