Ben Thompson
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42,103 appearances
120 recordings
2 series
first heard Sep 2024
last heard 21 Aug
Ben Thompson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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To the extent it surpasses human capabilities, then it is going to be good enough, which means the increase in quality and capability, to your point, is not going to be noticed or appreciated because it's already good enough.
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In which case, we are reverting back to a zero marginal cost world where the computing is effectively free because, oh, yeah, oh, the the
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AI is up there in their planning meetings and saying, Oh yeah, the humans can run on the model from thirteen years ago because they don't know any difference.
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It's good enough, right?
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And running on like, you know, the the oh, those chips from twenty thirty five, those don't matter.
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Yeah.
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Like what super like that's
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Like which one is it?
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Like and there's so there's a bit there's this overall attitude towards AI of always choosing the pessimistic interpretation of everything, even when they're totally in conflict with each other.
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And this is a good example.
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This insistence that compute is gonna be consumed infinitely is in direct conflict with the idea that AI is gonna get smarter than humans.
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Once it's smarter than humans, it's smarter than humans, right?
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At least to your point, if we're talking
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Yeah.
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And you made the point.
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What do consumers actually want?
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Like, if it's just an answer bot, we're already in a pretty good position, to your point, right?
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We we sort of saturated the space remarkably quickly.
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Now, I think there's a bit where one reason it makes sense to focus on enterprises.
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Right now, AI is clearly a productivity booster.
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