Yes, SMEs building everything will be a phase. It has been before! This time, unlike with the trial of SMEs everywhere recording their meetings as trainings, or walking through their day with mobile video capture, AI will be there to help organize and curate. It can DO the editing, it can make the outline, and it can do it much faster and on average better than many average humans.
Though I don't think it can last. Why? Because human sensemakers are still better than silicon ones for fellow humans. We just don't seem to care as much about what our botfriends say or evaluate what they are telling us in the same way. We glaze over and gloss over. We do this for humans too, but less so and we already have developed cultures and other processes to deal with that.
As far as content quality? Sure, current tech probably gets us there now, and it's evolving fast to become even better.
It's the audience quality that I'm speaking to with reversion post-AI-SME boom. We humans have very predictable preferences, biases, and failings, and I don't see changing nearly so quickly. If we want to move people, for better or worse, it generally takes other people to do it.
Love all your posts and thanks so much for this one!
Wait. Didn’t this happen with REL tools starting around ‘09? (I’m looking at you articulate.)
the outline of the dynamics became visible but now we have scale and speed.
Yes, SMEs building everything will be a phase. It has been before! This time, unlike with the trial of SMEs everywhere recording their meetings as trainings, or walking through their day with mobile video capture, AI will be there to help organize and curate. It can DO the editing, it can make the outline, and it can do it much faster and on average better than many average humans.
Though I don't think it can last. Why? Because human sensemakers are still better than silicon ones for fellow humans. We just don't seem to care as much about what our botfriends say or evaluate what they are telling us in the same way. We glaze over and gloss over. We do this for humans too, but less so and we already have developed cultures and other processes to deal with that.
As far as content quality? Sure, current tech probably gets us there now, and it's evolving fast to become even better.
It's the audience quality that I'm speaking to with reversion post-AI-SME boom. We humans have very predictable preferences, biases, and failings, and I don't see changing nearly so quickly. If we want to move people, for better or worse, it generally takes other people to do it.
Love all your posts and thanks so much for this one!