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Woman squeezing green balloon on white background, closeup
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Jeffrey Funk
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May 26, 2025
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Artificial Intelligence, Work
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AI’s Contradictory Impact on Productivity: Squeezing a Balloon

AI appears to give support workers a big revolution in productivity. But it is somewhat like a child squeezing a balloon; the air pushes out someplace else
Jeffrey Funk
May 26, 2025
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Artificial Intelligence, Work
Individual workers may claim huge productivity gains for their work, ignoring the impact of AI on the work of downstream employees within the same process. Read More ›
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Inferno Social media hype concept art poster.
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Jeffrey Funk
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November 4, 2024
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Business and Finance, Large Language Models (LLMs)
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AI Pessimists vs True Believers: A Deepening Divide

There is a growing divide about AI even among AI experts but many of them like polarizing content, just as the consumers of political information do
Jeffrey Funk
November 4, 2024
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Business and Finance, Large Language Models (LLMs)
True believers don’t focus on short-term trends because they aren’t very positive. But short-term trends should be consistent with a long-term forecast. Read More ›
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Conceptual Illustration of Sora, OpenAI's Text-to-Video AI
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Jeffrey Funk and Gary Smith
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March 6, 2024
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Artificial Intelligence
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Sora: Life Is Not a Multiple-Choice Test

With Sora, as with other generative AI developments, some are quick to proclaim that artificial general intelligence has arrived. Not so fast.
Jeffrey Funk and Gary Smith
March 6, 2024
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Artificial Intelligence
The hallucinations are symptomatic of generative AI models’ core problem: they can’t identify output problems because they know nothing about the real world. Read More ›