Cory Doctorow

They can't do it cheaper.

They're Chinese.

So my point is not about the market realities, the material reality.

So I'm talking about what happens after the market pops, right?

So, you know,

I've seen people do interesting and useful things with AI.

I think you've probably seen people do some useful and interesting.

I'll give you an example.

I was writing an essay and I couldn't remember where I'd heard a quote I'd heard in a podcast.

I couldn't remember which quote it was.

So I downloaded Whisper, which is an open source model from OpenAI to my laptop, which doesn't have a GPU, right?

A little commodity laptop.

Through 30 hours of podcasts that I'd recently listened to at it, I got a full transcription in an hour.

My fan didn't even turn on.

That's awesome.

Yeah, so I know tons of people who use this, and the title of the book, Reverse Centaur, refers to this idea from automation theory, where a centaur is someone who gets to use machines to assist them, a human head on a machine body, right?

And so, you know, you riding a bicycle, you using a compiler.

yes and a reverse centaur is that's right a machine head on a human body right it's someone who's been conscripted to be a peripheral for a machine right and when i you know i i should say you talked about good cancer i have the least bad kind of cancer i've got a very treatable form of cancer but i'm paying a lot of attention to stories about cancer and uh you know open source models or ai models that can sometimes see solid mass tumors that radiologists miss

And if what we said was, we at the Kaiser Oncology Department are going to invest in a service that is going to sometimes ask our radiologists to take a second look to see if they missed something, such that instead of doing 100 x-rays a day, they're going to do 98.

then I would say as someone with cancer, hmm, that sounds interesting to me.