Azeem Azhar

These new technologies really make

new things possible we start to do things that we didn't do before maybe because they weren't possible or just because they were too expensive because what a general purpose technology does has to do is it has to in some way reduce the cost of something we're doing in the market in the economy

And an exponential general purpose technology will reduce that cost even more.

So think about how you might be using this today.

You might get a contract for something that you're signing up to.

And if it's got any degree of materiality, you'll probably get it read by Claude or chat GPT.

Well, we wouldn't go to a lawyer for a contract like that five years ago or two years ago.

But now these are new behaviors that we will generally take.

Well, what does this mean?

Is this a reasonable non-disclosure agreement to sign, something I have to do many, many times a week, and they're not all reasonable.

So there's this new behavior that has emerged, that's been enabled as a consequence of this exponential technology.

Another one of my favorites is

that I use it to prioritize my to-do lists set against the plans that I have.

I mean, those who work with me know that I'm always pushing, putting pedal to the metal.

I've got way too much on.

And so prioritization becomes quite important.

The amount of time I spend has declined significantly, but the quality of that has improved dramatically.

But perhaps my favorite new use is building software that works.

So I've been writing programs for a long time, since the early 80s.

Over my shoulder, you can see my first computer just over there from 1981.