Christopher Mims
speaker
246 appearances
3 recordings
3 series
first heard Oct 2025
last heard 30 Apr
Christopher Mims’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And most of that is this pre-generative AI.
And that's going to remain the case for the foreseeable future.
Most of our interactions with AI are going to be invisible.
And they're this kind of older, so-called classical AI.
In the short term, I'm very concerned about what's going to happen in the labor market.
Big moves in the labor market, they never happen because of one thing.
But AI is arriving at the same time that we have tons and tons of economic uncertainty, which business leaders hate.
So whether it's an excuse or it's the reality, business leaders are either laying people off or keeping headcount flat
And one of the ways they justify it is they're like, well, I'm going to use AI to make existing workers more productive.
So in the short term, I'm extremely worried about the disruption that always happens when there's a profound and general purpose new technology.
I mean, people always joke like, well, you know, we don't have buggy whip makers anymore.
Ha ha ha.
I mean, that was terrible for the buggy whip makers, right?
They all had to get new jobs.
That's the kind of transition that we're in now.
It turns out that the world runs on small models.
We just don't hear about it because it's not as flashy or exciting and it's not a place where companies can make zillions of dollars.
Small models have taken over for translating text and documents into machine-readable text.
Small models are what allow voice transcription on your phone or in any app that does that for you.
Small models are fast.
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