Ali Eslami

So imagine if I was a carpenter or an artist, without exaggeration, it would be like putting away all of your brushes and then moving to photography as a medium.

That's happened three or four times.

And I think that there is no indication that that's going to stop.

I think as I fully expect my job to transform again in those ways, I suspect many other professions will feel this too with a bit of a time delay.

So we're super aggressively using these AIs to redefine our own jobs in AI.

And I suspect other professions will feel the same.

Yeah.

Well, one thing is when you're in a competitive environment and you're trying to be at the forefront, you end up working with very immature technologies.

One key characteristic of my experience of these things is that I'm constantly working with broken tools.

None of these things work as well as I would want, and it's partly my job to make them better.

I think for everyone else, there's probably a luxury of being slightly further behind and therefore using more mature versions of these tools.

And to a large extent, my role in this transformation is to help things progress fast and in the right direction.

But for many people in this room, I think

These are ultimately just tools meant to serve a purpose, which often has social value or commercial value or human value.

So I think there should definitely be less anxiety than, say, I have, because at the end of the day, it's just a tool that's going to serve whatever customer base or client base you already have.

But yeah, the competition is pretty intense, and there is...

That intensity, I think, traditionally has always gotten a little bit simplified as it comes into the world, because there's a hundred things going on right now.

Nobody knows which one's going to be the right way to go.

But eventually, gradually, we will find out what the winning patterns are, and then they will kind of percolate through society in a much more manageable way, I imagine.

Yeah, I caught the end of that previous conversation.