Benedict Evans
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1,906 appearances
3 recordings
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first heard Sep 2025
last heard 4 Jun
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Because that gives you a great feeling of moral superiority.
And you can go on Blue Sky and shout at everybody, shout at each other about how evil AI is.
Like, great, I'm happy for you.
But that's not going to help.
What helps is you diving into this completely submerging yourself in it and coming out understanding what you can do with it, how this changes things, how you can be a great hire.
And that may still not help.
But, you know, if you're going into a law firm and they're like, well, we hired 100 associates last year and this year we're only going to hire 50, going to the interview and say, well, I think AI is bullshit and I'm never going to use it is probably not the right move.
So, you know, you can, that, that, that may not be particularly comforting, but I don't think there's, there's an alternative is, you know, you have to dive into this and absorb it and internalize it and think about what it means just as, you know, you and I did with mobile and with, with the internet.
I don't know.
I struggle with this question because I'm thought of the lawyer looking at Jack TVT.
So, you know, the stuff that I would do that I would automate are sort of precise information retrieval tasks, which is precisely the thing that this is kind of worst at.
And, you know, that's not a criticism.
It's just an observation that kind of the kind of stuff that I would want a machine to do for me is the stuff that AI kind of can't do for me very, very, very well at the moment.
I use it for proofreading.
I use it, you know, for images.
I used it redecorating my apartment.
That worked fantastic.
You're well at that.
Here's a picture of this room repainted at this light and this table and this rug.
Um, no change of color of the rug.
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