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Derek Thompson

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The Bulwark Podcast
Derek Thompson: The Party of Vicemaxxing

I wrote down just a couple of the examples, like Microsoft is putting a limitation on engineers' use of external AI.

The Bulwark Podcast
Derek Thompson: The Party of Vicemaxxing

They have an internal AI.

The Bulwark Podcast
Derek Thompson: The Party of Vicemaxxing

Uber's COO said it's getting harder to justify its AI costs because there's no way to show a link between that spend and increase in features.

The Bulwark Podcast
Derek Thompson: The Party of Vicemaxxing

Amazon had a leaderboard contest designed to incentivize employees' use of AI, but they canceled it because employees used AI to cheat the contest.

The Bulwark Podcast
Derek Thompson: The Party of Vicemaxxing

That's what I thought.

The Bulwark Podcast
Derek Thompson: The Party of Vicemaxxing

I thought it was most interesting just because of what the company is.

The Bulwark Podcast
Derek Thompson: The Party of Vicemaxxing

NVIDIA said that it was a VP.

The Bulwark Podcast
Derek Thompson: The Party of Vicemaxxing

So they were looking at it and they think maybe the cost of AI for this one, this VP's team was more than what humans would have been.

The Bulwark Podcast
Derek Thompson: The Party of Vicemaxxing

Yeah, go for it.

The Bulwark Podcast
Derek Thompson: The Party of Vicemaxxing

It's not so much- Is this why Polar Abyss for me?

The Bulwark Podcast
Derek Thompson: The Party of Vicemaxxing

Did you watch Polar Abyss?

The Bulwark Podcast
Derek Thompson: The Party of Vicemaxxing

I didn't, no.

The Bulwark Podcast
Derek Thompson: The Party of Vicemaxxing

Okay, you should.

The Bulwark Podcast
Derek Thompson: The Party of Vicemaxxing

And Gilligan says that it wasn't AI that inspired, which I find almost impossible to believe, but whatever.

The Bulwark Podcast
Derek Thompson: The Party of Vicemaxxing

But the world gets a hive mind, basically.

The Bulwark Podcast
Derek Thompson: The Party of Vicemaxxing

And then I forget what it is, like six or eight people that it didn't work on them.

The Bulwark Podcast
Derek Thompson: The Party of Vicemaxxing

And so they exist with their normal brains and everyone else has a hive mind.

The Bulwark Podcast
Derek Thompson: The Party of Vicemaxxing

And it's like everyone gets really smart, like really fast, like as you know all of the world's knowledge.

The Bulwark Podcast
Derek Thompson: The Party of Vicemaxxing

But then the hive mind starts getting very dumb.

The Bulwark Podcast
Derek Thompson: The Party of Vicemaxxing

Yeah.