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Azeem Azhar

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6819 total appearances

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Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
My OpenAI thought experiment: $500B to $1.5T?

They move at different clock speeds.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
My OpenAI thought experiment: $500B to $1.5T?

They need to do different things.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
My OpenAI thought experiment: $500B to $1.5T?

And if you look at companies that are big and successful that have done that, Google would be a great example there with, you know, Google as a consumer search engine, then moving into publisher and advertising services, then into Google enterprise services and the cloud.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
My OpenAI thought experiment: $500B to $1.5T?

Another good example would be Amazon with going from retail through to AWS.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
My OpenAI thought experiment: $500B to $1.5T?

Another example would, of course, be someone like Microsoft.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
My OpenAI thought experiment: $500B to $1.5T?

The computing industry was just so different when Microsoft sort of embedded itself in the late 1980s.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
My OpenAI thought experiment: $500B to $1.5T?

So I do think it's hard to serve both masters.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
My OpenAI thought experiment: $500B to $1.5T?

But that said...

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
My OpenAI thought experiment: $500B to $1.5T?

The team in OpenAI has history to guide them.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
My OpenAI thought experiment: $500B to $1.5T?

They've got a really deep and talented bench now with people like Kevin Weil and Fiji Simo and others.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
My OpenAI thought experiment: $500B to $1.5T?

And perhaps that allows them to kind of, you know, run across both markets.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
My OpenAI thought experiment: $500B to $1.5T?

But there's another thing that I think is really important to bear in mind and what is, I think, underappreciated about these LLMs today, the software that we're using.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
My OpenAI thought experiment: $500B to $1.5T?

I ended up in a chat with a friend of mine who...

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
My OpenAI thought experiment: $500B to $1.5T?

every morning uses ChatGPT to build social stories for her son who's autistic that allow him to understand what he will have to navigate that day.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
My OpenAI thought experiment: $500B to $1.5T?

And she described it as being a lifesaver.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
My OpenAI thought experiment: $500B to $1.5T?

Really, really remarkable story.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
My OpenAI thought experiment: $500B to $1.5T?

She has some agency.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
My OpenAI thought experiment: $500B to $1.5T?

She's got some ability to understand what he needs and can deliver that to him every day.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
My OpenAI thought experiment: $500B to $1.5T?

I also separately read about how KPMG, the accounting firm, had had dozens of its tax specialists build a 100-page prompt that can do several weeks' work of tax expert work

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
My OpenAI thought experiment: $500B to $1.5T?

on inter-jurisdictional tax issues.