Christopher Mims

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246 appearances 3 recordings 3 series first heard Oct 2025 last heard 30 Apr

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Marketplace All-in-One · Making AI work — for work · 3 Feb 2026 podcast

So they were kind of just...

humans were brainstorming alongside the AI and the AI gave them this sort of unconventional idea by connecting a bunch of other data points they had of like, well, why don't we like bomb the toilet?

And they're just like, what?

This doesn't make any sense.

We're going to blow up the toilet.

But, you know, there had been a lot of chatter online.

People were playing with other similar products where it's like you drop a, it's like a bath bomb really is where the inspiration, you drop a thing in your toilet and it fizzes up and it feels like it's doing more work than just a conventional cleaning tablet.

Um,

So they attribute, you know, basically they're like, this is the first thing that we've ever made where AI really was a part of the genesis of this idea.

And we wouldn't have done this without AI because one of the things that AI is good at is coming up with weird ideas that are, you know, slightly inhuman.

I think the average person doesn't realize that AI is already, you know, the water that we swim in and we're all fish, right?

Every time you open up Google Maps, there's a very particular kind of route planning AI that is solving this incredibly difficult so-called traveling salesman problem to get you the shortest route to your destination given the traffic that's happening.

Every time you make a claim through your insurance company's app, which they love for you to do now,

I mean, one insurance adjuster told me... Actually, he was a PhD who works for the company.

He said, there's 20 different AI models in production when you use that app to make a claim.

And it means that, like, you know, an adjuster has way less work to do when you bump into a pole or something with your car.

So...

AI is powering our Google search results.

It is determining what we see in our TikTok and our Instagram and all of our other social media feeds.

We're constantly exposed to it.

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