Ernst & Young has seen the future, and it involves people doing what AI can’t.
EY, one of the “Big Four” management consulting firms, said Monday it plans to award $100 million in bonuses to workers who demonstrate human skills, such as leadership, judgment, business acumen, collaboration and an ability to adapt.
Although EY said it will also reward “technology adoption,” the company emphasized the importance of nurturing human skills for its success.
Sixty years ago, a man sat in front of a camera and described the world we live in today.
Satellites. Instant global communication. Machines that think, which we now just call #AI.
Arthur C. Clarke got much of it right, and he was not guessing.
What interests me more than his predictions is what sits underneath them. Three short sentences about how the future actually arrives. Not laws of physics. Laws of psychology. They explain why the most credentialed person in the room is so often the one most confidently wrong about what comes next.
You have probably heard one of the three quoted, usually by someone who has no idea whose line it is. The other two are the ones worth arguing about.
I wrote up all three, plus three rare retro-futurist interviews where you can watch him do the work live.
So the next time somebody tells you that something is impossible, the useful question is not whether they are right. It is what Clarke would say.
The city’s medieval layout is a dense maze filled with cars, buses, delivery scooters, bikers and jaywalking pedestrians. There are roundabouts upon roundabouts. Restricted bus lanes emerge and disappear again. On one-lane streets, drivers traveling in opposite directions intersect and must coordinate in an unspoken language to get through.
The failure rate for a driver’s license test in London is just over 50 percent.
This week, a small number of autonomous robotaxis will enter the fray, carrying London passengers for the first time. Fifteen cars operated by Uber and the British autonomous vehicle start-up Wayve will be available for ride-hailing through Uber’s app as part of a safety testing period. The cars will have a safety driver present to take over if needed, as government regulators weigh eventually approving wider deployments.
16, he entered Harvard. At 25, he was the youngest assistant professor Berkeley had ever hired. At 27, he walked away from all of it into a Montana cabin with no electricity and no running water.
Then he started mailing bombs.
Ted Kaczynski killed three people and injured twenty-three others. Nothing excuses that, and this is not an attempt to.
But in 1995 he traded an end to the killing for the publication of his manifesto, and there are two passages in it I have not been able to shake. Not because they are unhinged. Because of when they were written and what they describe.
I am deliberately not quoting them here. You should read them cold, with no name attached, and work out for yourself what you are looking at.
Then the uncomfortable question arrives on its own. Was the Unabomber a murderous neo-Luddite whose ideas deserve to be buried with him, or was he among the first to see the #Singularity coming and recoil at it?
My answer will not satisfy either camp.
Shining Science on X: 🚨 A groundbreaking MIT brain-scan study shows relying on ChatGPT weakens critical thinking and memory wiring.
A recent MIT study, titled The Cognitive Cost of Using LLMs, monitored the brain activity of 54 students using electroencephalography (EEG) devices.
Researchers from the MIT Media Lab discovered that participants who consistently relied on ChatGPT for essay-writing tasks demonstrated significantly lower neural engagement in brain regions tied to memory and analytical reasoning.