What AI Is Really Good At & That Feeling You Get When You Don’t Fit In

About this episode

The episode explores the capabilities of AI and the psychological concept of feeling out of place, featuring insights from experts in technology and social psychology.

What makes someone—or something—attractive? It may have less to do with beauty and more to do with how easily your brain can process what you’re seeing. There’s a hidden pattern behind what we find appealing, and it shows up in more places than you might expect. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3130383/?utm Artificial intelligence is evolving rapidly, and it’s easy to feel like you’re either falling behind—or overestimating what it can actually do. So what is AI truly good at right now? Where does it fall short? And how can you use it effectively without getting lost in the hype? Christopher Mims, technology columnist for The Wall Street Journal and author of How to AI: Cut Through the Hype. Master the Basics. Transform Your Work (https://amzn.to/3Qtnd0n), breaks down what today’s AI tools can realistically do, how they differ, and how to get real value from them in your everyday work and decision-making. Have you ever been in a room where you felt like you didn’t quite belong? Maybe you held back from speaking, worried about saying the wrong thing, or felt subtly out of place. That feeling has a name: “churn.” Claude Steele, social psychologist at Stanford University and…

People in this episode

Host: Mike Carruthers

Guest: Christopher Mims

Topics covered

• artificial intelligence
• social psychology
• identity
• perception
• attractiveness
• workplace dynamics

Keywords

• AI
• attractiveness
• social psychology
• identity
• workplace
• Churn
• Christopher Mims
• Claude Steele

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: The Wall Street Journal

Books & works: How to AI: Cut Through the Hype. Master the Basics. Transform Your Work, Churn: The Tension That Divides Us and How to Overcome It

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