Ben Thompson

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518 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Sep 2026 last heard 4d ago

Ben Thompson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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TBPN · Harvey's Margin Whiplash, Human Powered Agents, McLaren Rebrand, Insects > Humans? | Ben Thompson, Gagan Biyani, Alex Ratner, Peter Kalogiannis, Daniel Petkevich · 22 Sep 2026 podcast

My personal what is AGI rule is AI that actually learns. voice-verified

And right now, what makes these agents possible is this facsimile of learning where they're just writing stuff down all the time. voice-verified

And that has lots of challenges. voice-verified

It's been super interesting trying to develop this version of the bot that I'm using internally because... voice-verified

You're learning way more about context management and way more about actual data structures and what stuff to dispose of and what stuff to keep track of and all these sorts of things. voice-verified

And it's just a real challenging problem that is based on the fact that these models are frozen in a moment of time and everything is layered on top of them trying to sort of overcome that challenge. voice-verified

Given that, I'm going to stick with humans, I think, for now. voice-verified

Now, the whole bit here, though, is... voice-verified

If you didn't have a personal assistant, you now have this. voice-verified

And I think there's going to be a real learning process in figuring out how that's done. voice-verified

This is going to be one of the big challenges. voice-verified

So I'm obviously out there, been out there frequently saying people don't care about being productive. voice-verified

Employers care about their employees being productive. voice-verified

Once you're off the job, you just want to go home and watch TikTok or whatever it might be. voice-verified

The way to frame this, and this is going to be the challenge for Meta, I think, with Muse and anyone else in this space, is we're not helping you be more productive. voice-verified

We're helping you get rid of annoying crap in your life. voice-verified

It needs to be framed more as a pain relief as opposed to this aspirational, I'm going to be so productive and get things done. voice-verified

That's number one. voice-verified

I think there's a messaging problem. voice-verified

But number two... voice-verified

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