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“And I'm saying, I think in that particular case, that the AI would perform significantly worse than the human.”

“The speed of I'm going to use algorithms to make quick bets on these things will probably at some time make very important decisions, be very major mistakes. And since we're all connected, that scares me.”

“I'm all in on artificial intelligence. All in. I think it's going to be great for the recording because I think you could say, Play me something, make me something that is Johnny Cash only with a Dre beat. And you may not hear something great, but you may hear…”

“YC was mostly funding software companies, but I had a lot of conviction that we could apply the same thing that made YC work so well for software companies to companies in a lot of the areas that I cared about. AI, synthetic biology, energy.”

“It's actually happening across all three elements of our business, auditing, in our tax, in our consulting. So we have platforms that our entire audit business is run off of. We have artificial intelligence that's being built right into that platform in a typi…”

“The way we've looked at it is non-regulated businesses in general will be earlier adopted. So think consumer and other areas, areas that are highly regulated, like financial services or healthcare will be slower because of the risk of getting it wrong.”

“While there have been various algorithmic and technique improvements, it wasn't like we suddenly discovered the intelligence algorithm. It's actually, in fact, how do we get thousands of compute units, but by getting that scale compute, you started generating …”

“Well, Elon's in particular was signing this six month pause letter while trying to hire people and buy as much compute and get going as fast as possible. Everyone else slow down so I can catch up. That's not intellectually honest.”

“If you kind of walk through a corporation and say, if you make everybody 10 X more productive, how does that cause you to reorganize? And by the way, that doesn't cause you a whole lot of job loss. Some, you know, like I think customer service will both reorga…”

“Anytime that large tech companies talk to each other, you know, it's like, ah, antitrust, and you're like, well, actually, in fact, you want them talking to each other about safety considerations with computation generally, whether it's cybersecurity or whethe…”

“To be clear, I don't fully align with Brian on his assumption that AI will never be capable of parsing microexpressions and evaluating body language. To a certain extent, it already can.”

“In fact, I say, if it was, oh, wow, the two companies in the world or three companies in the world have AI, that's not a world that any of us want to live in. In fact, that's a world that won't exist. No country will allow that. It is a silly way to even conce…”

“One of the places where the most of the existential risk people are doing a disservice and causing an increased likelihood of dystopia is that by focusing on kind of future robot overlords versus how human beings use this technology, Including, by the way, cri…”

“If this was true for AI, that is both going to be the most incredible boost to creativity and productivity in the history of our species, but also potentially an incredibly destabilizing time. Because anybody who has an agenda, who wants to amplify their narra…”

“It's really good at coming up with ideas, but it doesn't really know what's a good idea and what's a bad idea, right?”

“We have a way of working with clients where in an hour we ask clients to develop a new product and come up with a campaign for its launch. And they can really see what AI can do. By the way, you're creating a brand for client in an hour.”

“And if you don't know yet, in my world, I think it's okay to wait another month, another quarter, not saying 10 years, but just a little bit, and then revisit on a regular basis whether or not there's new application of AI, new development that would make sens…”

“Many envisage a technology-led future with even more daily screen time than today. However, the power of AI points towards the opposite. If you trust AI to complete tasks on your behalf, You'll uncover more time to nurture relationships and advance your person…”

“It's a research buddy for me where it's not ever going to give me the right answer. It's going to help me focus my thinking to hit that formula exactly as I need to hit it.”

“We will act as if the AI did a thing. So we'll say, AI will replace teachers. In doing so, we're absolving the developers, literally, of responsibility. It's the outsourcing of the morality of the decision, and frankly, of the adverse outcomes that could resul…”

“By spending too much time debating the existential risk of AI, we actually increase the likelihood that AI will help bring about a dystopian future. The long-term conversation is doing a disservice to the immediate issues that we face.”

“And one of the things I think is naive about that statement and the reason I didn't sign it is because while it can be an existential risk, just like, you know, for example, you create nuclear power and nuclear weapons or an existential risk, it is also one of…”

“One of the things that's going to come from AI is how do you look at a big pile of data and then generate a fictional piece of data that has the same characteristics of the other one? So you say, well, We should allow this AI to look through all of the medical…”

“There are deep parallels between the huge advances in computing underway at this point in Ed's story and the seismic impacts of the current AI revolution. Like AI, the computational wave that Ed was immersing himself in was going to inform sweeping changes in …”

“It takes me a lot of used to take me a lot of energy to formulate email responses in a way that, you know, is concise and direct. And warm and all the things that a female CEO has to think about when you're in doing correspondence and having a tool that I can …”

“I think the most creative people are going to be the ones who get the most out of it, as opposed to it being something that replaces.”

“I think that my perspective is that for media companies that solve a problem, I call it utility, right? Like a company that is providing content and information and entertainment that is a utility, meaning that people can actually use it where there's value. I…”

“We had to train people and say, okay, make sure you're not actually pasting the entire data set into this right now, please.”

“And I really believe that the folks who figure out how to partner with AI to be more productive or more creative or more connected or more empathetic are going to do better and be more competitive and more marketable and more kind of in demand than people who …”

“And it used to take, you know, months or years. And with AI, I've actually been able to shorten that to sometimes just a few hours.”

“It often won't yield the right idea, but I can usually shortcut weeks Off the process, because it helps me get through all the bad stuff faster, and it helps me find the little tiny sparks that might be interesting, and then I can grab those and dive right in.”

“For those who don't have a Jordan, AI serves that purpose perfectly because it will do that combinatorial mathematics at lightning speed. All you have to do is be really astute and really open-minded as you look at the results and find the two ingredients that…”

“Tell me something that AI is going to help you to do that was not possible to do before. Even if you don't fully understand the technology, Tell me in one sentence, thanks to AI, we're going to do X. And if I immediately see that without AI, X will never have …”

“Then to figure out the theme, I take those instructions that I've spent weeks working with an AI to generate, and I feed them right back into the AI and say, become an expert at this game and tell me what it should be called to attract this target audience. An…”

“What I care about is, Is there a big, gigantic problem in front of us? And do you have a really different way of solving it versus everyone else? And if that means using AI, awesome. If it means not using AI because you have a better option, that's fantastic t…”

“Games should make the people you're playing with entertaining. And AI sucks at that.”

“Because ultimately, the defender has the home turf advantage. They are the people that know the business and its culture and its digital identity better than anyone else. And by leveraging AI, they're able to arm those defenders with that knowledge and stay on…”

“It seems to be optimizing for near-term business interests within a small group of owners.”

“Journalism is doing a disservice by covering one of the most consequential aspects of our reality today in that way.”

“This is the same level of power and the ability to both create and the ability to destroy that we're dealing with. And what I, that's what I took away from Oppenheimer. I was like, wow, that much power with one individual, one small set of individuals. That's …”

“To me, AI is, is a bigger deal than personal computers, chips, social media, internet, all combined.”

“I think that almost for sure, just like every other epoch of Technological development in human history is we're gonna have a lot of, oh my god, the world's coming to an end, and then in a few years, it'll be like, oh my god, that's really great, and there's a…”

“First of all, I do think that AI will be a net job creator.”

“Long term, I would like to bet on open source as a future of AI.”

“So the issue is if you create, if you drop the cost of content creation down to zero or near zero, you're going to get a lot more content. Simple law of supply and demand.”

“It's not that AI is going to take your job. It's that the person who knows how to use AI will take the job from someone who doesn't know how to use AI. I do think that is true”

“In the next six years we will make contact or have the technical capability of making contact with these thirty four million year old cultures.”

“If we as a US are gonna spend a trillion dollars in the next couple years on AI capabilities, shouldn't we at least be spending one percent of that on upgrading governance itself? Like, the US was founded on the idea that a group of people could come together,…”

“The core insight is that you could build a shape that represents English, a shape that represents German, and just rotate one shape on top of the other to do translation. And even though there are words in one that don't exist in the other, the point which is …”

“There are fields where the people in that field are very smart, but if they could be completely digitally specified those people are more at risk than people who, Do things that can't be completely digitally specified because then AI cannot be a substitute as …”

“And so I think that's true of AI, and I think we're kind of in this five-year window where it's not completely obvious where to play, just like it wasn't completely obvious in the first five years of the internet, but all my instincts tell me that it's going t…”

“Obviously, initially, people aren't going to necessarily have a lot of trust for AI, so you brand trust AI, that doesn't work. You have to have humans in the loop in really strong ways and I think that's one of the things that's kind of pretty essential to do …”

“And so I think part of what we're going to be doing is kind of training, you know, AI to kind of be as an assistant on every smartphone, and the first question will be is, do you have access to a GP, right? Because by the way, if you have access to a GP, You k…”

“He discovered that no, that what happens is that people have a sense of like they slack a bit when it comes to with good AI. And so then they miss the edge cases that the AI misses.”

“In which data and AI were at the center, and the work that was being done by these organizations was being done by the machines and not by the humans. The humans designed the machines, the humans monitored the machines, the humans updated the machines, but the…”

“At the same time, we discovered for the task that the AI was not good at, performance dropped. Those using AI did worse than those not using AI.”

“I also think that more and more software will actually complete a job. I think software to date has been a productivity enhancer. Now we're going to have AI that actually returns the results of doing work.”

“Technologies like AI, it's a big game changing technology, but the costs are still so high to launch something. I think startups, you know, need to raise a lot more money to get started right now today. Than I did. I mean, I started with 250 K from angel inves…”

“If the human intelligence isn't compensated fairly, then the AI will eventually lose access to it. It'll dry up. There'll be no incentive to create new art, music, words, whatever it is.”

“The next trillion dollar company is going to be AI first, and it's being born now.”

“One of the reasons why I kind of advocate very strongly against the existential risk, the robots are coming, you know, Terminator movie, et cetera, is because most of the real bad things to focus on are AI in the hands of, you know, kind of bad human beings. W…”

“I don't think AI is going to reduce healthcare costs. I think what it's going to do is give people back time, which I think is probably even more valuable.”

“I think that we will not make the mistake I believe Europe is making, which Europe often makes, of over-regulating trying to make, be so careful about bad things happening, you don't allow the good things to happen, and we need to figure out a way to, you know…”

“All of these weight loss drugs, like, right? That is also a product of AI and biotechnology.”

“But individually, these groupings of technologies, these general purpose technologies aren't important. It's the convergence we discovered that matters. And what's happening is improvements in one begets improvements in the other. So there's this sort of flywh…”

“So it turns out, in the course of our research artificial intelligence is a general purpose technology, which is defined as you know, something that has a profound and lasting impact on the economy. You mentioned as a general purpose technology. Electricity. Y…”

“I have used AI to clone my friends and play test an adventure before I run them through it and they're actually, it's actually pretty good.”

“We said, people who use AI, this is an augmentation tool and it will potentially replace people who don't use AI.”

“I think the reality with all technology, all automation is, you know, I, it introduces way more jobs, and it disrupts some, and I don't think AI will be you know, that different, and a lot of the, you know, automation or menial things that people do, it'll for…”

“On the ideation of creativity, on the prototyping, at the front end of the entire process, this is going to be the biggest boon to creativity because people can use other modalities to talk about what they want to do.”

“A lot of what these compliance workflows are taking information in one format and putting it in another. So taking a policy document and turning it an engineering config, and a control, a rule that's followed basically. You know, turning all of this into like …”

“When Sid and I went through the whole area, we abandoned any interest in an AI thing, so it wasn't every slice, there wasn't a minimum of 10 X And frequently it was like, okay, no, no, it's much greater than 10 X that we can make this work and then focus on th…”

“And so even in this kind of hallucination case because of the research, it was actually still an accelerant. It just is an accelerant in a way that kind of proves the point from my earlier book, Impromptu, and also part of what I'm trying to say in Superagency…”

“What has changed is that relationships is the competitive edge at this moment. It's the one thing for the time being that AI cannot compete with yet.”

“And if a, if we just simply rely on AI to make the outputs, you know, learning to be a better prompter, isn't going to make it doesn't that there's no torture and growth requires, requires struggle.”

“Even with companies now trying to bring a, elements of artificial intelligence into how they run their business, it's not plug and play, because the data isn't secure enough, or It's not a hundred percent accurate. It's 99.9% accurate, which is not enough if y…”

“You're the last generation that's gonna have traditional textbooks. Like, even for my freshman in high school, like, my assumption is that probably by next year, certainly by the time he's a junior, he's gonna be in conversation with Martin Luther King and Mah…”

“AI, I am finding, is incredibly useful in fast flaring. And then I still think it's on the human to really think about what does that mean, right? How do I connect that with the human needs that I've been uncovering, and how do I use my human intelligence to m…”

“Art is by humans for humans about being human. It's not about Ideas. Because ideas are constructs, and humans are not a construct. They experience ideas, and they have emotional responses to them, and I think art is that combination of an idea that, that elici…”

“Now it isn't per se, I think even now a particularly good joke writer.”

“That's the pitfall I believe that professor would have with AI. Is that you love too well the work of your own hand, and that you replace the experience of the creation with your own sub-creation.”

“I think AI is already good enough that consulting it for a second opinion, that's different, that's important and different than a first opinion. Is actually, in fact, really useful.”

“Even if it's actually inferior to humans, the access that more people get it is better than nothing.”

“AI is the best learning technology, learning being part of how we elevate As human beings that has been invented, even including the book now builds on the book as a way of doing it.”

“For such a long period of history, we've trusted the technology to do something. And now we're testing, trusting technology to decide something and to create something. And the reason why this is so important for entrepreneurs and designers and business leader…”

“So the fact that it can't absorb emotions, that it doesn't get flooded, allows it to be empathetic in a way that humans can't, like whether you're a therapist or whether you're a doctor. And the interesting question is whether, where it stops. So it's really g…”

“Now we can visualize spaces more quickly. So within a week, we used to take us three months or six months. Now within a week, we can have multiple ideas and take our clients and bring them right into the space.”

“Like, for example, we obviously run more and more at risk of serious pandemics, whether they're manmade or natural or anything else. AI is the only thing I can really think of as a good defense against that.”

“And so in, in terms of principles, the number one is transparency, right? That is always knowing that there is an AI present where the AI is present, not pretending that it is human or sentient or some other thing, right?”

“I don't think anything that Eliezer Rutkowski read, for example Eliezer Rutkowski, big AI, maybe he doesn't describe himself as a Doomer, I would say AI Doomer, wrote a lot about how AI could end the world and kill literally everyone. Like, I can't, like, you …”

“And by the way, if you try to lock that in, you're essentially going to be stealing your children's future, because the other society will move ahead, and then yours will now have put them in a very disadvantaged position.”

“We're in the similar times to the industrial revolution. Now there's a cognitive industrial revolution. And so many, many jobs will change. Right? Like if you said, my job is, I'm a form filler for digital marketing. Like, yeah, that's not really gonna be, you…”

“Elon said this a long time ago, the only moat is continued innovation, rapid progress, and I think that's true in, in AI today.”

“That being said, like, AI revenue can go up as easy as it goes down.”

“So we want to make sure that we're using AI too, to help set our lines and help manage them”

“And so, as we continue to really advance technology and think about how we leverage AI and Gen AI to personalize the experience and make it more intuitive and simple. I think that's gonna be a real unlock for targeting more women in the category.”

“The technology is very good for facilitating research and being able to compare odds more effectively across the platform, but we don't think it's going to give you a mathematical edge.”

“My concern with science fiction meeting reality, especially as it relates to AI, is that we're creating a world in which we can't allow our minds to get lost. You know, it's a little bit like GPS. People have forgotten how to orient themselves because we just …”

“Leverage AI. LLMs can be really helpful, not to help you create answers. That's not what I'm looking for, but to help you get questions to practice.”

“Tech may be the early, early beneficiary, but I will note everybody in tech right now is losing money in it.”

“I think that you should try to use AI in a case where you're not going to have to go undo six months of work or undo having spent hundreds of millions.”

“After year two, we were definitely getting a return that was 10 X compared to what we were spending.”

“So research for those cases used to be very manual, very hourly intensive. And now a lot of our researchers and master's level social workers, they can rely on AI and reduce days into hours.”

“And I think we're in this weird paradox with AI that I would have thought by now that people would be all over the place with these testing machines and they'd be Building prototypes in a day and testing and they're not, and it's not what I see because you can…”

“I would argue it is not yet a platform at a consumer level.”

“In this AI era, we are just hurtling towards living our lives at the speed of play. And I think that that's more and more accessible to all of us, that this idea that we don't, you don't have to quit your job to try out, build an idea that you've been thinking…”

“It's very obvious at this point, wherever there is chip, there's compute. Wherever there's compute, There will be AI if it's not there. So from that point of view, both from a business as well as use case point of view, AI is the future.”

“And definitely at the moment exclude and go to great effort to exclude both from our online catalog Probably happens, we think, with the, with what's in our stores naturally because we're selecting and curating, but online we really need to put in lots of filt…”

“Is AI gonna write, write the next great books? I very, very much doubt it, but it will take categories of books out quite clearly. Such as? Home study guides, you know, you, that will, that's an easy thing.”