The Thinking Leader Rebroadcast - Uncertainty and the Limits of AI with Chris Butler
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Dec 25, 2023 Lead Product Manager at Google, Chris Butler, discusses the importance of simplifying processes, the limitations of AI language learning models, and using randomized constraints for decision-making in this insightful podcast.
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Clear The Way For Emergence
- Chris Butler frames his role as moving work between the complex and complicated domains to surface useful processes.
- He emphasizes removing unnecessary processes to make space for emergent innovation.
Quarterly 'Start Over' Audit
- Regularly list everything your organization does and ask: "If we started today, would we do this?".
- Stop activities whose reason you can't remember to free resources for new ideas.
Focus On Human Outcomes
- Large language models and ML will touch nearly every human endeavor and change software development practices.
- Success depends on defining human outcomes and tracking whether systems deliver them.