Socher: Cheaper AI will dramatically increase total consumption via Jevons paradox
Richard Socher · Former Chief Scientist at Salesforce, Richard Socher | You.com, LLMs, AI Agents, Complex Work · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea · Oct 25, 2024 · at 35:35
Richard Socher is the founder and CEO of You.com. He is discussing how the falling marginal cost of intelligence will affect technology adoption.
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“As the cost of intelligence is going down. We're just going to use more intelligence. Everywhere, right? Like anything from your light switch to like your flight scheduling to your marketing automation, to your tier two support, everything will get more access to technology.”
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