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Alex Lintner

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
616 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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Decoder with Nilay Patel
Experian's tech chief defends credit scores: 'We're not Palantir'

we assume, Hey, if we provide the following information to a team, uh, to a person as an assistant, uh, in, in their workflow, they are going to use it that way.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Experian's tech chief defends credit scores: 'We're not Palantir'

And therefore it's a good thing.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Experian's tech chief defends credit scores: 'We're not Palantir'

Well, we're not always right.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Experian's tech chief defends credit scores: 'We're not Palantir'

You know, people don't, I, I, I sometimes compare it with, you know, I, I, I, I drive a, I drive a, I drive a Mercedes car and I can talk to the car and, and, you know, it has a, uh, uh,

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Experian's tech chief defends credit scores: 'We're not Palantir'

a map that I can talk to and say, hey, Mercedes, take me to, tonight I'm seeing the Colorado Avalanche play hockey, take me to a ball arena in Denver.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Experian's tech chief defends credit scores: 'We're not Palantir'

And so it will put in the directions from where I'm at, and I will be taken there.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Experian's tech chief defends credit scores: 'We're not Palantir'

I got so used to the tool that I now listen to the tool all the time.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Experian's tech chief defends credit scores: 'We're not Palantir'

Though I know the area really well, and sometimes it doesn't give me the right route.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Experian's tech chief defends credit scores: 'We're not Palantir'

Is that good?

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Experian's tech chief defends credit scores: 'We're not Palantir'

Are you describing a good outcome?

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Experian's tech chief defends credit scores: 'We're not Palantir'

No, it's not a good outcome.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Experian's tech chief defends credit scores: 'We're not Palantir'

And that is the outcome you want to avoid.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Experian's tech chief defends credit scores: 'We're not Palantir'

It's the answer to your question.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Experian's tech chief defends credit scores: 'We're not Palantir'

If you trust AI to the point where you blindly trust it and always follow it, and you don't check yourself through the data scientist in the example that we discussed a couple of minutes ago,

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Experian's tech chief defends credit scores: 'We're not Palantir'

it bears risk.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Experian's tech chief defends credit scores: 'We're not Palantir'

So the real job that we have is to make sure that doesn't happen.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Experian's tech chief defends credit scores: 'We're not Palantir'

And the interaction with the human still happens.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Experian's tech chief defends credit scores: 'We're not Palantir'

You can sort of force it in rather than it automatically, AI automatically doing what it does.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Experian's tech chief defends credit scores: 'We're not Palantir'

In my car, I can turn on the lights.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Experian's tech chief defends credit scores: 'We're not Palantir'

I can turn on the radio.