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Bret Taylor argues AI hallucinations will help solve digital disinformation
“And if you want a contrarian take on this, I think it will help with the disinformation problem a bit. People don't assume everything coming out of these agents is a hundred percent accurate and they like verify it. And my hope is the combination of these AI t…”
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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.”
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Bret Taylor: AI will widen the performance gap between top and bottom workers
“I think it will make the better people even better by giving them more leverage. It will probably increase the gap in the distribution between the best people and the worst people, because the best people will now have an Ironman suit, you know, of AI capabili…”
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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'…”
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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…”
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Taylor: Generative AI's creativity and hallucinations share the same underlying basis
“The amazing positive impacts of these generative models and their flaws are very intertwined. What affords their ability to be creative and responsive and aligned with the person using them is also the basis for hallucination.”
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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'…”
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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…”
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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.”
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Bret Taylor: Big tech companies have shorter half-lives than commonly believed
“And I just realized that the half life of big knock technology companies is not as long as we often think.”
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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.”
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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.”
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Bret Taylor: Operating AI code generators is more strategic than writing syntax
“I think the operator of a code generating machine is actually a more strategic role than typing if statements, you know, all day.”
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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.”
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Bret Taylor: AI hallucinations violate 30 years of deterministic computing expectations
“Because we have been trained for the past 30 years to think of Computers as these extremely powerful rules engines. A correctly running computer was entirely deterministic, right? A correctly running computer could look up facts. When you search something in G…”
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