Computers

“Laundromats are really, really hard on computers, especially ones that have fans in them. Lots of lint in the air. You literally have to take the computer out and dust it off with some cans of compressed air to get the lint out of the computer.”

“And so I don't think that means that computers are just going to be like a screen and you just talk to it, because actually we'd get tired of talking, but I think it's going to be a dimension that's added to everything, and so that over the next couple years w…”

“My kids will never grow up in a world where they were smarter than computers.”

“I think they'll re-engineer the computer entirely. Like it won't even look like this.”

“AIs are actually still really weirdly bad at just using computers. Like it's like a, it's a surprisingly hard problem that is not well solved.”

“The idea of us using the internet and using our computers in the same way that we are today, 10 years or five years even down the road, It's not gonna happen. I do think that most of it will happen by these, like, smart AIs that just understand everything abou…”

“Will you have a language model optimized hardware rolling out in, in our phones, in our computers? Yes.”

“And I think that's really my kind of one line description of how all of this is going to end up. It's going to be magic. And in 20 years time, we'll just say, well, of course, that's how it is. Computers have always done that.”

“It's so funny to say that, but like when younger people in Silicon Valley right now, I think that Silicon Valley is uncharacteristically full of people who don't actually love computers.”

“Like, I do think the paradigm that we all have to operate our computers all day long is going away, and I think that's hugely positive.”

“It's not about needing a Mac mini. It is about needing a computer that is isolated from your personal files.”

“Computers, I think, you know, Whether it was the mainframe or the desktop, you know, have sort of pulled us away from one another, away from society, brought us indoors right into this very like single player experience.”

“In computers, you can run the same software on any number of different hardwares. But in brains, hardware and software are absolutely indistinguishable. Every experience, every memory is a physical set of connections in the brain.”

“Most of the internet is still built around text and that is going to shift in a huge way over the next five to 10 years as the models become smarter and more human-like you interact with them in more human-like ways like voice, right? Is the primary way we int…”

“And right now is like an amazing time for computers. Like one of the most amazing times since the web back in the late nineties or mid nineties, really.”

“There's this meme going around that you know, Silicon Valley people don't let their kids use computers. And I just, I, there may be a handful of people who are like that. I don't, you know, I don't know. I think it's more honestly the other way around, which i…”

“Now the computers understand what we see, what we say, what we write and that changes a little bit, the human computer interface. And with that changes the whole you know, definition of what the computer is.”

“We reinvented the computer, and the new computer is far better than the one that we have been building on for the last 50 or so years.”

“I think there will be a shift over time to the way people use computers, where they go from a sort of Dumb, reactive thing to a very smart, proactive thing that is understanding your whole life, your context, everything going on around you, very aware of The p…”

“Yes. Every phone and computer was built pre-AI. The, All the hardware we have today in the world needs to be completely rebuilt from scratch.”

“At some point, the computers are going after the humans, and I don't think it's that far away.”

“One thing I know for certain is that the CEOs, if they can reduce their cost structure in the short term, They're gonna replace, they're gonna take computers over humans.”

“We assign these human-like traits to these things reasoning, intelligence, These are very specific things that, like, computers cannot do, and, like, anyone who builds these models will tell you that.”

“Computers are exempted right now. There's a computer and everything, so everybody in the world is trying to claim that this is actually a computer. It's not a watch, it's a computer, and then you get, you know, how do you get I've seen a lot of different peopl…”

“And so I think that more and more of that, like, human compilation step will go away, and computers will be able to kind of fill in the gaps, fill in the details.”

“Whatever sniffer dogs are doing, I think eventually a computer will be able to, ah, either help with or do entirely.”

“I think when it comes to learning, you know, math, science, engineering, the fundamentals, these are, this is information. And so information can be transmitted through computers. In a lot of ways, you know, better than a human can do it.”

“This idea that computers will learn humans instead of humans needing to learn computers. And I think we were seeing the beginnings of that.”

“Already there's a lot of industries Where like, 20% or even 50% of people's time and action is, is in some ways dictated by the computer.”

“I just think in five to 10 years, people are gonna use their computers by giving them high-level goals, right?”

“We're going from this era where computers were highly efficient calculators, and I said, you know, we're not far off from it being, computers being able to reason and think, and being smarter than every human who's ever lived on the planet”

“Screwing up with a computer is not new. This is my point. Ruining people's lives. This is kind of the kind of mistake that the AI dealers make is like, we haven't had computers before. We've never before have we had computers that were making decisions and cou…”

“As technology continues to improve, I would not at all be surprised to see a future generation of this product that not only is mass market, but is delivering society a better new version of phones, computers, TVs, and gaming consoles in a single experience.”

“Now the truth was they did a financial analysis and the financial analysis says there's no benefit to using computers.”

“The diff between this, where we are today, and that is kind of like the diff between the first calculator and where computers are today.”

“Well, look, I think that, you know, for the first time we can see that computers can do what we thought only people could do, right? Take photos, write copy, Create press releases. You know, not a perfect job of it, but certainly enough for the first draft to …”

“No one wants to let these computers totally go off on their own. And so, The computers tend to cut problems down into finer and finer things that need more and more people to manage.”

“It's like fragmenting responsibility and you, you're incentivizing people to not know. You're giving people incentive to stay in their lane and stay focused only on their task and the computer or the system or the organization is supposed to take care of every…”

“It's Very easy to look at this and think, okay, all those voiceovers are going to be done by computer next. And then all the animation is going to be done by computer as well.”

“I couldn't use computers before we started our first, I hated computers to be honest, before we started our first business.”

“The way I describe it to kind of normies is that, you know, that sort of unlocks the ability for computers to more and more interact with the real world. Yes. And with the messiness of the real world, right, and the probabilistic nature of the real world.”

“I always say that I don't think that a computer can sit down with five business plans and figure out which one is Amazon in advance, or meet five CEOs and know which one is Steve Jobs.”

“Empathy cannot be made up. Empathy cannot be recreated by computer.”

“I went to Princeton and I studied economics rather than computer science because it explained to me the way the world worked. But I went to Princeton having no money coming from France. And so I actually built my first reasonably small company there, exporting…”

“IQ is now completely commoditized, both because computers are now in our days and they can consume knowledge faster than we can.”

“Well, computers have arbed out first price discrepancies, but they've also arbed out now time discrepancies. Meaning when you find an idea and you're like, I found it, nobody's in it. Well, no computers are pretty good at using data to find the same idea.”

“Not being technically working and typing on your computer doesn't mean that you are not working.”

“The first 50 years of the computing industry is everyone gets a computer. Second 50 years of the computing industry is what happens once everybody's got a computer. I'm like, yes, they'll carry on getting better, but they might look more or less the same.”

“When our thesis is that humans are particularly good at the creativity required for idea generation, good at working off of thin data or very scarce data, good at defining and refining goals, knowing what questions to ask, seeing the big picture and how things…”

“So I think it's good to use computers, obviously, but I would never, ever believe in using a computer as a tool for creativity at the beginning. You can use it later, like I said, to give you variations and options and things like that, and maybe to speed up t…”

“And like, to me, it's gotta be a lot easier to pick stocks than to drive a car for a computer.”

“Every different brand of computer had to have its own version of the popular software programs.”

“20 years from now, No young person will have grown up in a world where computers could see, right? Computers could always see.”

“Almost everything in investing that's good practice is really routine, and computers are a lot better at routine things than people.”

“We are the native speakers of the human created world. Computers are doing this as their second language. We, I believe we have a massive advantage. We are the native speakers about this reality around us.”

“Compared to computers, humans are extremely slow computing machines. The information transfer in our brain is very slow compared to transistors. And add on top of that, our motor system You know, from our brain to our muscles is even slower.”

“When computers move into a workplace, they never take anybody's entire job, that what they do is they take away certain tasks”

“A computer should never ask a question. It should be able to work out the answer to.”

“And many of our customers, before we walk in there, don't have any idea. They don't know how many subnets they have. They don't know how many computers they have. They don't know what's running on those computers. They don't know where their data is.”

“The more that, that goes we run the risk of just sort of conflating progress with computers and kind of stop, you know, stopping demanding it in all these other, you know, other contexts.”