Bret Taylor

9 statements across 2 episodes · 6 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Aug 8, 2024 by Bret Taylor · across every show →

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Aug 8, 2024 neutral
Disclosure
Bret Taylor reveals both OpenAI factions asked him to mediate crisis
“And then when the governance crisis happened and, you know, I got some phone calls from both the outgoing board and, Sam and Greg and others were, you know I'm paraphrasing, but there was some mutual trust that I could help mediate the outcome and there weren'…”
Bret Taylor Aug 8, 2024 ▶ 16:06 OpenAI’s Bret Taylor & Reid Hoffman: Your business can’t wait until AI is perfect | Masters of Scale
Aug 8, 2024 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Bret Taylor predicts AI agents will rival websites in corporate importance
“Every company will want their own agent, and they'll spend as much care and attention on their AI agent as they do building their website, as they do building their mobile app. This is going to be one of the main digital artifacts as a business that you make.”
Bret Taylor Aug 8, 2024 ▶ 2:29 OpenAI’s Bret Taylor & Reid Hoffman: Your business can’t wait until AI is perfect | Masters of Scale
Aug 8, 2024 neutral
Opinion
Taylor: AI safety governance is a geopolitical issue, not just technological
“This is a geopolitical issue, not simply a technology issue. So the committee is a combination of both members of the board and members of management to provide, you know, broadly oversight and governance on safety decision-making around the models.”
Bret Taylor Aug 8, 2024 ▶ 19:09 OpenAI’s Bret Taylor & Reid Hoffman: Your business can’t wait until AI is perfect | Masters of Scale
Aug 8, 2024 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Taylor: AI software will complete jobs rather than just enhance productivity
“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.”
Bret Taylor Aug 8, 2024 ▶ 6:26 OpenAI’s Bret Taylor & Reid Hoffman: Your business can’t wait until AI is perfect | Masters of Scale
Aug 8, 2024 positive
Insight
Taylor: Encouraging startup competition holds Big Tech accountable better than regulation
“The best possible thing to do to hold technology companies accountable is to encourage competition, or what, you know, I think Andreessen and others call little tech. I think that's actually probably the most viable thing. I think it comes from the natural sor…”
Bret Taylor Aug 8, 2024 ▶ 24:46 OpenAI’s Bret Taylor & Reid Hoffman: Your business can’t wait until AI is perfect | Masters of Scale
Aug 8, 2024 positive
Insight
Taylor: Conversational interaction is the most ergonomic software interface
“My intuition is that with the advent of large language models and ChatGPT being that inflection point with large language models, talking to software is perhaps the most ergonomic way we can interact with software because you don't need an instruction manual t…”
Bret Taylor Aug 8, 2024 ▶ 2:50 OpenAI’s Bret Taylor & Reid Hoffman: Your business can’t wait until AI is perfect | Masters of Scale
Aug 8, 2024 neutral
Insight
Taylor: Productivity will never end human status competition or jobs
“We're all competing for status in this world, and no amount of productivity in the economy will change that aspect of society or human nature, and as a consequence, we'll create an economy around the technology that exists around us to enable us to be what we'…”
Bret Taylor Aug 8, 2024 ▶ 10:47 OpenAI’s Bret Taylor & Reid Hoffman: Your business can’t wait until AI is perfect | Masters of Scale
Aug 8, 2024 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Taylor: AI wave will drive workplace productivity gains unseen since early PCs
“This wave of software will, like the early waves of software when we first brought the PC to many businesses, hopefully drive productivity into the workplace in ways that we haven't seen for a very long time.”
Bret Taylor Aug 8, 2024 ▶ 6:53 OpenAI’s Bret Taylor & Reid Hoffman: Your business can’t wait until AI is perfect | Masters of Scale
Aug 11, 2026 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Taylor: Conversation designers will become as important as UI designers
“I actually think that conversation designers will be as important as UI designers in the future.”
Bret Taylor Aug 11, 2026 ▶ 6:31 60% of today's jobs didn't exist in 1940. 5 leaders on what's next.
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