Now, however, powerful new foundation models, together with accessible natural language interfaces, have ushered in a pivotal new phase of AI-one that moves us from “AI on autopilot” to “AI as copilot.” It’s a whole new interaction model between humans and computers, turning natural language into the most powerful productivity tool on the planet. This AI is so ubiquitous, we’re barely aware of it. We’re accustomed to AI in our daily online experiences-personalizing our news feeds or suggesting an email autocomplete. You can also follow us on Twitter, and listen for Hidden Brain stories each week on your local public radio station.Now, AI promises to help us not only overcome these challenges but vastly expand what’s possible. The Hidden Brain Podcast is hosted by Shankar Vedantam and produced by Maggie Penman, Jennifer Schmidt, Renee Klahr, Rhaina Cohen, Parth Shah, and Lucy Perkins. This episode is part of a series of episodes called You 2.0. This week on Hidden Brain, we look at how to cultivate deep attention and what we gain when we immerse ourselves in meaningful work. Replying to a string of emails rarely arouses this same feeling. We're also denying ourselves the satisfaction that often comes from committing our full attention to a task. "We treat it, I think, in this more general sense of, 'eh, I probably should be less distracted.' But I think it's more urgent than people realize," he says.īy letting email and other messages guide our workday, Cal says we're weakening our ability to do the most challenging kinds of work -what he calls "deep work." Deep work requires sustained attention, whether the task is writing marketing copy or solving a tricky engineering problem.
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