Today’s clip from Mustafa Suleyman (Microsoft’s AI CEO) on the Next Big Wave Podcast gave me a big insight…
Why It Landed For Me
In my last message, I shared how while AI may be the most general tool we have ever created, its frontier is still very jagged. In other words, it’s really good at some things and not so good at other things.
But, two things it happens to be really good are more profound than people realize:
Coding (creating other tools)
Tool-Use (using tools)
The big implication this is:
Tool use becomes recursive and exponential rather than linear and generational.
When tools can use tools to create better tools without human bottlenecks, we enter a phase transition in the evolution of intelligence itself.
This is a big deal.
If we want to understand the implications of recursive, exponential tool-use and tool-creation trend, we can simply look at human history. A huge amount of human intelligence can be attributed to the fact that we can use and create tools. It’s the difference between cave people society and modern society.
