'Attention Was the Breakthrough': AI Will Expose How Much Knowledge Work Was Human Computing
ericwdolan · x · 2026-10-23
ericwdolan argues that turning words into numbers wasn't the real breakthrough — attention was. He predicts AI will reveal how much of what we call "knowledge work" was really humans acting as computers, concluding with the irony that the more machines do what machines should, the more human we can become.
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