Houston: Large models bottle cognitive energy like Industrial Revolution mechanized labor
Drew Houston · Building the Silicon Brain - Drew Houston of Dropbox · Oct 18, 2024 · at 43:39
Drew Houston, co-founder and CEO of Dropbox, explains his macro framework for why AI foundation models represent a civilizational inflection point.
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“I believe that the large models, that's really the first time we can kind of bottle up cognitive energy and offload, you know, if we started by offloading a lot of our mechanical or physical busy work to machines, that freed us up to make a lot of progress in other areas. And then with AI and computing, we're like, now we can offload a lot more of our cognitive busy work to machines, and then we can create a lot more of it, the price of it goes way down.”
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