ai and the individual talent - by BDM - Notebook

This article was written for a “real” publication earlier this year, but… now I think it’s sort of unrelated to the larger AI conversation. The moment passed. So, after checking with my editor about this, I decided to pull it. I’m giving it an afterlife here… out of vanity. One thing I don’t discuss in the article below is the environmental cost of generative AI. There are couple reasons for this decision, but a big one is that I used a service running DeepSeek for trying the technology out and the environmental costs of DeepSeek seem to be a lot lower. Since lower environmental costs are an option, I focused on the technology. But if you want something that’s really about the physical costs of generative AI, I recently picked up this book and will write about it on here after I’ve read it. Bookshop links are affiliate links. I’ve actually never really figured out how to get the money from Bookshop to me so it just accrues there like a secret savings account. There’s always money in th

This article was written for a “real” publication earlier this year, but… now I think it’s sort of unrelated to the larger AI conversation. The moment passed. So, after checking with my editor about this, I decided to pull it. I’m giving it an afterlife here… out of vanity. One thing I don’t discuss in the article below is the environmental cost of generative AI. There are couple reasons for this decision, but a big one is that I used a service running DeepSeek for trying the technology out and the environmental costs of DeepSeek seem to be a lot lower. Since lower environmental costs are an o