Cal Newport
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39 recordings
5 series
first heard Oct 2025
last heard 6d ago
Cal Newport’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And you will notice it was around this time that they switched to chain of thought reasoning that the benchmark charts became the main thing the LLM companies talked about.
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Look at these numbers getting better, and those made the numbers getting better, but it's not sustainable because it requires a huge amount of compute.
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And the future of LLMs that us, the normal consumer, should care about is LLMs that are integrated into more of the stuff we do with computers.
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Now, in fact, OpenAI clearly recognizes this because if you look at the video, the slickly produced video that they released along with Astra,
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It is all about LLMs helping to power natural language interfaces in the computers, right?
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It's people talking to their computer about what they want it to do, and the computer goes and does it.
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That is a future that everyone should be excited about.
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This is what I think the primary use case for LLMs should be.
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It turns out to be harder than they thought.
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Microsoft tried this with Microsoft Office, with Copilot.
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They had to recently essentially scrap it because the LLMs weren't there yet.
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It didn't work very well.
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But that's a fantastic use case.
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I mean, clicking things with a mouse, like having to learn these arcane menus and buttons on software, we're used to it, but it's really inelegant.
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If Steve Jobs was alive today...
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And involved in AI.
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What would he be telling Apple to work on?
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We got to figure out how to get natural language interface.
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And that's the next level of elegance, massive productivity booms.
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And OpenAI realizes this because it was at the core of their marketing of Astra.
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