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Looking for AI use-cases
- ▶ 27:49 Benedict Evans The, the, the, the meanwhile, this is the thing that my, my former colleague, Steven Sinomsky was saying is that basically every text box on the internet gets an LLM.
What's your AI strategy?
- ▶ 12:22 Benedict Evans I mean, I was listening to a, um, podcast with Steven Sinofsky from, I mentioned sometimes who I used to work with, who used to run Office, and he's got stories of going, literally going to investment banks with PCs, showing them Excel,…
LLMs, links, and the death of links
- ▶ 18:17 Benedict Evans Well, so, so, um, I mean, I used to work with, um, Steven Sinolsky, who ran Office, and he always had this model of, um, filers versus pilers.
Threads
- ▶ 18:29 Benedict Evans I mean, there's a, there's a point here, there's a point here, which is like, um, so that I saw Steven Sinoski, um, I used to work with, used to run windows talking about this, which he used the phrase basement dwellers. 2 times in the scene
Working out AI questions
- ▶ 28:33 Benedict Evans And this is, this is almost like this, by this conversation that we used to have with Steven Sinofsky, who kind of ran Office, which is, how is it that you surface
GPT-4 is here, now what?
- ▶ 29:19 Benedict Evans Um, I mean, Steven Sinoski said that, um, basically every text box on the internet is going to get an LLM attached to it.
Figma, unbundling and $20bn of antitrust
- ▶ 13:20 Benedict Evans I wish we had had Steven Sinofsky on to talk about this because he could talk about this for hours, but like, it's really difficult to add that real time, multiple people working on it, multiple people collaborating at the same time to…
Lighting and tech diffusion
- ▶ 11:29 Benedict Evans I think Steven Sinofsky sort of made this point that there's a guy I worked, worked with at Andreessen Horowitz who's been going to CES for like 50 years.
Three ways to say no
- ▶ 1:47 Benedict Evans And, um, and I'm reading, um, my, my sort of former colleague, Stephen Sinofsky's, um, book slash, sort of, serial newsletter where he's publishing sort of his, his memoir of Microsoft, basically. 4 times in the scene
Stories in the noise
- ▶ 19:42 Benedict Evans Um, I mean, I know Steve, Steve Stanowski has this, Steven Stanowski from, I used to work at Microsoft, had this story that, you know, they would,
The Evolution of networks
- ▶ 23:33 Benedict Evans I mean, there's lots of like, this is sort of a very Steven Sinowski kind of a conversation, which is like, it sounds easy to innovate until you've actually got to like deal with how the file format actually works and where the UI actually…
Talking about crypto
- ▶ 20:38 Benedict Evans I was talking about this on publicly on messaging back and forth with Steven Sinoski on Twitter.
What we know about web 3 so far
- ▶ 12:25 Benedict Evans So, um, Tim Berners-Lee got very angry with Marc Andreessen when he added pictures, and if you talk to sort of people who are at Microsoft then, like Stephen Sinowski, like, a lot of people thought this was like a network drive, that this…
- ▶ 16:39 Benedict Evans Um, so there's a sort of, you know, it's the same problem with, um, you know, Steven Sonowski, who used to run Windows, said, you know, all text editors grow until they have tables and charts.
'Digital transformation' - beyond the silly slogan
- ▶ 26:18 Benedict Evans I don't know, maybe that one of those, and maybe Steven Sinowski would tell me that that's a dumb way of doing it.
Paying attention to Apple again
- ▶ 36:35 Benedict Evans So there's a super, um, sort of, what my sort of colleague, Stephen Sinofsky, um, used to call the Dr.