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David Pierce

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2710 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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The Vergecast
The 'AI is inevitable' trap

Isn't that nuts?

The Vergecast
The 'AI is inevitable' trap

It just bears repeating.

The Vergecast
The 'AI is inevitable' trap

It's an iPhone chip that runs Mac OS.

The Vergecast
The 'AI is inevitable' trap

You unnerf the chip and let people do computer stuff with it for real.

The Vergecast
The 'AI is inevitable' trap

And everyone loses their minds.

The Vergecast
The 'AI is inevitable' trap

Um, do you, what do you make of the, the sort of Microsoft response here?

The Vergecast
The 'AI is inevitable' trap

It's like, do you think, can this company actually sort of pull up its bootstraps and compete here?

The Vergecast
The 'AI is inevitable' trap

It's hard to talk about Microsoft's response here without talking about Microsoft and open AI.

The Vergecast
The 'AI is inevitable' trap

I think Microsoft, remember that when they introduced Bing and Nadella was like, he literally said to me, I want to make Google dance.

The Vergecast
The 'AI is inevitable' trap

Like they were riding high on what they thought was an interface revolution and

The Vergecast
The 'AI is inevitable' trap

That would let them just upend mobile and search and computers.

The Vergecast
The 'AI is inevitable' trap

And boy, did that relationship not turn out how they wanted.

The Vergecast
The 'AI is inevitable' trap

Like just this week, you know, OpenAI leaked another memo about focus, which is hilarious because the thing that is distracting OpenAI is how many memos they write about having to focus.

The Vergecast
The 'AI is inevitable' trap

Every week another executive is like, it's time to buckle down again, I said.

The Vergecast
The 'AI is inevitable' trap

And it's like, didn't your boss say that last week?

The Vergecast
The 'AI is inevitable' trap

And it, but in that memo, uh, it's like the CFO of OpenAI, it says we're now on AWS, which is what our customers wanted always.