Tasks often require "intelligence tokens."
- Tasks often require "intelligence tokens."
- A unit of attention from a sufficiently-intelligent actor.
- Before, most cognitive labor tasks required a human.
- Human intelligence tokens are quite expensive.
- Not only do you have to find and train the human, but you need to pay them continuously, keep them happy and engaged, etc.
- LLMs are good enough at many tasks, and their intelligence tokens are orders of magnitude cheaper than humans.
- Normal mechanistic code has even cheaper intelligence tokens… but the tools by default aren't useful in a given domain.