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If you're having it do your brainstorming like your brainstorming muscles are going to get weaker

and I don't want my brain. That's my livelihood. My career is coming up with stuff. I got to keep that. I got to keep

that sharp. Now, maybe in five years, they'll just have an AI do my show and the AI will generate

all the takes and the AI will talk and I'll be out of a job. Right. Fine. But until that happens,

I don't want the AI doing that.

I'm Charlie Warzel, and this is Galaxy Brain, a show where today we're going to calibrate our feelings about artificial intelligence. There's this phrase that's coined by AI researchers that I can't get out of my head these days.

It's called the jagged frontier.

The phrase is meant to describe

how AI can be extremely and unexpectedly good at some human tasks, and then also extremely and

unexpectedly bad at others. Individually, this can mean that it's useful or even transformative

for some people, while others see it as unnecessary or even more akin to snake oil. For example,

large language models and especially coding agents have transformed the job of many programmers, making them more productive. That's not true

of all industries, though, especially creative ones, where there are moral or financial or creative

reasons to object to its use. The jagged frontier is meant to apply to use cases in industries. In

some ways, it's an echo

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