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Benedict Evans

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The Knowledge Project
Why Everyone Is Wrong About AI (Including You) | Benedict Evans

That was like amazing.

The Knowledge Project
Why Everyone Is Wrong About AI (Including You) | Benedict Evans

Yeah, it would do a week of work in half an hour.

The Knowledge Project
Why Everyone Is Wrong About AI (Including You) | Benedict Evans

Yeah.

The Knowledge Project
Why Everyone Is Wrong About AI (Including You) | Benedict Evans

Or less.

The Knowledge Project
Why Everyone Is Wrong About AI (Including You) | Benedict Evans

And he has all these stories about accountants who would, you know, they would be given a one month project and they get it done in a week and then they'd like go and play golf for three weeks because they partly because they didn't actually want to tell the client I needed it in a week because the client would think they hadn't done it properly.

The Knowledge Project
Why Everyone Is Wrong About AI (Including You) | Benedict Evans

So I look at ChatGPT and I think, right, I don't write code.

The Knowledge Project
Why Everyone Is Wrong About AI (Including You) | Benedict Evans

I have zero use for something that will write code for me.

The Knowledge Project
Why Everyone Is Wrong About AI (Including You) | Benedict Evans

I don't really do brainstorming.

The Knowledge Project
Why Everyone Is Wrong About AI (Including You) | Benedict Evans

I don't do a summarization of things.

The Knowledge Project
Why Everyone Is Wrong About AI (Including You) | Benedict Evans

I don't do the things where it's sort of out of the box, easy and obvious.

The Knowledge Project
Why Everyone Is Wrong About AI (Including You) | Benedict Evans

And then there's a sort of mental load of, OK, I've got to kind of try and think of what things am I doing that it could do for me.

The Knowledge Project
Why Everyone Is Wrong About AI (Including You) | Benedict Evans

And that most people don't think like that.

The Knowledge Project
Why Everyone Is Wrong About AI (Including You) | Benedict Evans

So there's a sort of, I said a moment ago, there's like a matrix.

The Knowledge Project
Why Everyone Is Wrong About AI (Including You) | Benedict Evans

There's a matrix of like, who has the kinds of tasks that it's good at, obviously.

The Knowledge Project
Why Everyone Is Wrong About AI (Including You) | Benedict Evans

Who is good at, has the kind of tasks that it's good at, not obviously.

The Knowledge Project
Why Everyone Is Wrong About AI (Including You) | Benedict Evans

Who is good at thinking about new tools for the things that they're doing?

The Knowledge Project
Why Everyone Is Wrong About AI (Including You) | Benedict Evans

Who isn't?

The Knowledge Project
Why Everyone Is Wrong About AI (Including You) | Benedict Evans

If you were using Salesforce and you had a button that said draft me an email to reply to this client, then that gets massive adoption.

The Knowledge Project
Why Everyone Is Wrong About AI (Including You) | Benedict Evans

Well, that's a feature that we talked about earlier.

The Knowledge Project
Why Everyone Is Wrong About AI (Including You) | Benedict Evans

But that's a different thing.