Lovinsky: Continuous background AI inference won't reach general knowledge work by 2026
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Noam Lovinsky is Chief Product Officer at Superhuman. He responds to Harry Stebbings' prediction that knowledge workers will run continuous background AI inference loops by 2026.
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“Whether it happens widely in knowledge work, By 20, 26, I think is, you know, I'll take a bet with you on that. Certainly for coding. I think in a lot of places we're already there, right? I mean, you have like the Ralph Wiggum stuff that, that popped up over, over the holiday and now people are running in friends, 24, seven for their coding tasks for the sort of knowledge work that the majority of us do on, on a day to day, will we be there by the end of 20, 26? I might disagree with you on timing, but I think that the insight is correct.”
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