David Pearce
speaker
14,416 appearances
53 recordings
4 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 18 Sep
David Pearce’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And the only way any of that stuff is going to return for itself is business services, right?
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Like this is what we always talk about.
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AI is business software.
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The business of AI is business software.
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And again, if you're Demesis Hobbis and you're really interested in curing cancer, like building B2B AI infrastructure to make it slightly easier for people to do accounting at their companies is not going to be very interesting to you.
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And there's been some really good reporting since this news in in Semaphore and elsewhere that Demesis Hobbis has actually been kind of disengaging over the course of the last year because he doesn't want to run a giant organization.
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He doesn't in
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enjoy the politics of Google by all accounts, he doesn't, he doesn't care about any of this.
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He's like, he is a true believer in, I think the truest sense of what AGI is going to be and what it could be and what it could mean.
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And and I think it's exactly what you said.
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If that if you are all the way at the end of that spectrum,
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The hell are you doing working on business software?
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And I think the thing about this that I really enjoy is my joke about AI all the time is AI is gonna cure cancer way before it builds you a good personal assistant.
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You know who believes that is Demis Hassapis.
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And and I and like again, if if that's what you believe, of course you should give yourself a giant fancy title, like chief scientist at alphabet, that lets you go be on stages around the world to proclaim what AI is going to be.
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It lets you go be influential all over Google instead of just a deep mind.
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It lets you not spend all of your time dealing with people fighting for compute at Google Maps versus Gmail.
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And it lets you go invent AGI.
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Is that a weird decision that's gonna make him it do a lot of odd things with his time over the next few years?
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Like, yes, absolutely.
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