984: Building Skills Better in an AI-Driven World with Matt Beane
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 5 August 2024
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Matt Beane reveals how the quest to optimize productivity is harming our learning and growth–and what you can do about it.
— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) The trillion-dollar problem with trying to optimize everything
2) How to modify ChatGPT to help you learn better
3) Three counterintuitive ways to learn better and faster
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— ABOUT MATT —
Matt Beane does field research on work involving robots and AI to uncover systematic positive exceptions that we can use across the broader world of work. His award-winning research has been published in top management journals such as Administrative Science Quarterly and Harvard Business Review, and he has spoken on the TED stage. He also took a two-year hiatus from his PhD at MIT’s Sloan School of Management to help found and fund Humatics, a full-stack IoT startup. In 2012 he was selected as a Human-Robot Interaction Pioneer, and in 2021 was named to the Thinkers50 Radar list.
Beane is an assistant professor in the Technology Management department at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and a Digital Fellow with Stanford’s Digital Economy Lab and MIT’s Initiative on the Digital Economy. When he’s not studying intelligent technologies and learning, he enjoys playing guitar; his morning coffee ritual with his wife, Kristen; and reading science fiction—a lot of science fiction. He lives in Santa Barbara, California.
• Book: The Skill Code: How to Save Human Ability in an Age of Intelligent Machines
• Article: “Gen AI Is Coming for Remote Workers First”
• Substack: "Don't Let AI Dumb You Down"
• TED Talk: How do we learn to work with intelligent machines? | Matt Beane
• Website: MattBeane.com
— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —
• Study: “GPTs are GPTs: An early look at the labor market impact potential of large language models” by Tyna Eloundou, Sam Manning, Pamela Mishkin, and Daniel Rock
• Book: Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology by Chris Miller
• Book: There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | We have a huge opportunity to nudge all of humanity in a healthier direction on skill while getting crazy cool new things out of AI. |
| 0:14.8 | I'm very convinced that we can use the very technology to build new systems so that |
| 0:21.2 | skill development functions better from now forward than it ever could have in all of human history. |
| 0:30.0 | That's Matt Bean. He's an award-winning researcher who studies robots, AI, and their impact on the world of work. |
| 0:37.0 | In 2021, he was named to the Thinkers 50 radar list. |
| 0:41.0 | Today, Matt sharing some of his wisdom from his latest book, |
| 0:44.0 | the skill code, how to save human ability in an age of intelligent machines. |
| 0:48.0 | So you'll learn one, the trillion dollar problem with trying to optimize everything. |
| 0:52.0 | Two, how to modify chat gPT to help you learn better, |
| 0:55.0 | and three, counterintuitive ways to learn better and faster. |
| 0:59.0 | I'm Pete McKitis, this is how to be awesome at your job, |
| 1:02.0 | and now here's Matt. |
| 1:07.8 | Matt welcome. |
| 1:08.9 | My pleasure. |
| 1:09.8 | I'm delighted to be here. |
| 1:10.8 | Thanks for the invite. |
| 1:12.0 | Well I'm excited to learn how I can save human ability in an age of intelligent machines. |
| 1:16.8 | I think we all should be and I've been trying to be excited for a good long while now. So glad to be here and chat about it. |
| 1:23.7 | Perfect. |
| 1:24.7 | Well, kick us off. |
| 1:25.5 | There's a lot of chatter about AI all the time. |
| 1:28.3 | Can you maybe tell us something that is surprising, |
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