Carlo Cocuzzi and a colleague debate a Genesis report's 2x productivity target. One argues it was chosen for political acceptability rather than realism, while the other contends that given AI's rapid advances and government's slow pace, aiming for 10x makes more sense.
In your report, Genesis talks about doubling productivity, which I guess historically might have been thought of as ambitious. Is it 2x because it's politically acceptable? Is it 2x because you don't think 10x can happen? Where do you see the limits here?
You know, when we were thinking about the 2x number, that's actually a number from, from last year when we were actually building, building the program at the present sign as a Genesis mission in, in December. And it's funny you say that because I've been sort of noodling on that actually myself for quite a few months now. And as we were finalizing the report, I think we had even a conversation internally about whether or not we should rethink that, but we'd sort of already stated that publicly, so wanted to keep running with it. My sense is government is one of the hardest institutions to change and to move. Yeah. And it's linear at best. It's linear at best. And I think, to me, I think we should probably be aiming for 10. And to be honest, with the transformations that have happened in AI, even over the last 6 months, we should definitely be pushing for 10. The pace of innovation on AI is just is just insane. And I think we, we got it. We got it. We got to aim big. We got to do 10x.
