Friedberg: Software publishing and startups could fade as users generate tools via AI
David Friedberg · E124: AutoGPT's massive potential and risk, AI regulation, Bob Lee/SF update · Apr 14, 2023 · at 17:06
David Friedberg, investor and co-host of All-In, discusses how generative AI and AI agents will shift software creation to the edge of the network.
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“I really do believe that at some point, the whole concept of publishers and publishing maybe goes away. Where, you know, much like we saw so much of the content on the internet today being user generated, you know, most of the content is made by individuals posted on YouTube or Twitter. That's most of what we consume nowadays, or Instagram or TikTok in terms of video content. We could see the same in terms of software itself, where you no longer need a software startup or a software company to render or generate a set of tools for a particular user, but that the user may be able to define to their agent, their AI agent, the set of tools that they would individually like to use or to create for them to do something interesting.”
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