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Ara Kharazian

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338 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

The a16z Show
Why AI Isn’t Killing SaaS Yet

Yeah.

The a16z Show
Why AI Isn’t Killing SaaS Yet

But I will say it's pretty good at certain kinds of writing.

The a16z Show
Why AI Isn’t Killing SaaS Yet

Anything like highly structured.

The a16z Show
Why AI Isn’t Killing SaaS Yet

If you just tell it like, hey, just like give me straight up bullet points.

The a16z Show
Why AI Isn’t Killing SaaS Yet

Summarize this thing that happened.

The a16z Show
Why AI Isn’t Killing SaaS Yet

And that's essentially what granola and note taking apps do.

The a16z Show
Why AI Isn’t Killing SaaS Yet

It's pretty good at that.

The a16z Show
Why AI Isn’t Killing SaaS Yet

It doesn't add the weird, you know, vicissitudes of how it talks.

The a16z Show
Why AI Isn’t Killing SaaS Yet

It does a pretty good job being comprehensive.

The a16z Show
Why AI Isn’t Killing SaaS Yet

Yeah.

The a16z Show
Why AI Isn’t Killing SaaS Yet

Yeah.

The a16z Show
Why AI Isn’t Killing SaaS Yet

And a lot of reporting, you know, let's say a reporter like does their job and they talk to a bunch of sources and they...

The a16z Show
Why AI Isn’t Killing SaaS Yet

They go on the ground.

The a16z Show
Why AI Isn’t Killing SaaS Yet

They literally talk to people in person.

The a16z Show
Why AI Isn’t Killing SaaS Yet

The AI robots will never do that.

The a16z Show
Why AI Isn’t Killing SaaS Yet

They're not going to go to an event and interview people.

The a16z Show
Why AI Isn’t Killing SaaS Yet

They don't have that ability.

The a16z Show
Why AI Isn’t Killing SaaS Yet

But if as a reporter, you can do your research process, the actual reporting work, and then have an AI write the straight summary of your reporting, that's not...

The a16z Show
Why AI Isn’t Killing SaaS Yet

unreasonable i mean can it write a profile of someone maybe not can it do the investigative journalism aspect of having to go in person and talk to the county clerk and get some documents that are you know uns that are sealed no it can't do that but it can write out what you found so i think there is a world in which uh some parts of writing are done by ai models

The a16z Show
Why AI Isn’t Killing SaaS Yet

I mean, I don't know.