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Spivack: AI is nowhere near replacing programmers, editors, or writers
“I do not think that AI is anywhere near replacing programmers, which I think are creative people, or editors, or writers.”
Spivack: Machine-generated news will fail outside narrow domains
“I don't believe that machine generated news outside of maybe very narrow domains, like financial news is, is really going to Cut it. I think that, you know, the human brain is so far beyond what AI can do today.”
Spivack: AI job displacement will target manual and factory labor
“In fact, I think, basically where AI is going to Replace jobs is, is lower level manual labor, like factory labor.”
Spivack: EarthWeb's 1998 IPO was NASDAQ's sixth largest first-day gain at the time
“I started EarthWeb in 1994 as one of the first internet companies in the world.
went public in 98.
It was the sixth largest gaining NASDAQ IPO in history at the time.”
Spivack: SRI incubator invented the technology that became Apple's Siri
“Dice.com went public in oh seven, and then I went and worked with SRI, which is Stanford Research International, to build their incubator which, among other things invented the technology that later became Siri on the iPhone for Apple”