Forget AI Agents. You Need an AI Exoskeleton.
Channel: Tiago Forte
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[0:00] You may remember what happened in early
[0:02] 2023. [music]
[0:03] After 6 years and 6,000 students, I
[0:06] stopped teaching Building [music] a
[0:08] Second Brain.
[0:11] It wasn't a clean, strategic pivot.
[0:14] Something about that moment felt [music]
[0:16] existential to me, not just
[0:18] professionally, but personally.
[0:20] >> [music]
[0:21] >> It forced me to return to the bedrock of
[0:25] who I am and what I stand for.
[0:28] >> [music]
[0:29] >> It's now been 1,200 days, and I've spent
[0:32] that time trying [music] to answer one
[0:35] question.
[0:36] What does it actually mean to extend
[0:39] your mind with technology, now that AI
[0:42] can perform most knowledge work?
[0:45] >> [music]
[0:46] >> And what I kept finding, there are two
[0:48] very different visions of what AI is
[0:51] supposed [music] to do for us.
[0:54] The first one is everywhere right now.
[0:56] It's the vision of AI as a replacement.
[0:59] Autonomous agents [music]
[1:00] doing your work for you, taking over
[1:03] tasks, running in the background while
[1:05] you step aside.
[1:06] >> [music]
[1:06] >> AI as a substitute for human effort and
[1:10] judgment.
[1:13] The second vision is one I first wrote
[1:15] about way back in 2015, [music]
[1:18] before large language models, before
[1:20] ChatGPT, before any of this. I described
[1:23] it as a cognitive [mus