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Ed Helms

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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SNAFU with Ed Helms
S4E21: Chris Winterbauer & Lizzie Bassett - Starfish Prime

Lizzie's not buying it.

SNAFU with Ed Helms
S4E21: Chris Winterbauer & Lizzie Bassett - Starfish Prime

Right, right.

SNAFU with Ed Helms
S4E21: Chris Winterbauer & Lizzie Bassett - Starfish Prime

I believe this is so much like an offshoot of the Silicon Valley desire for transhumanism.

SNAFU with Ed Helms
S4E21: Chris Winterbauer & Lizzie Bassett - Starfish Prime

Could this be a stepping stone to uploading my brain?

SNAFU with Ed Helms
S4E21: Chris Winterbauer & Lizzie Bassett - Starfish Prime

It's effectively a group of men, candidly, who are deeply uncomfortable with the fact that they're going to die at some point in time.

SNAFU with Ed Helms
S4E21: Chris Winterbauer & Lizzie Bassett - Starfish Prime

And I think that the tragedy with AI right now is...

SNAFU with Ed Helms
S4E21: Chris Winterbauer & Lizzie Bassett - Starfish Prime

There is very little actual evidence that these tools make anybody more productive.

SNAFU with Ed Helms
S4E21: Chris Winterbauer & Lizzie Bassett - Starfish Prime

You can look at the evidence that's presented for coding tools, like, can you generate a great deal of code?

SNAFU with Ed Helms
S4E21: Chris Winterbauer & Lizzie Bassett - Starfish Prime

The answer is yes.

SNAFU with Ed Helms
S4E21: Chris Winterbauer & Lizzie Bassett - Starfish Prime

Is that code replicable, widely usable, bug-free?

SNAFU with Ed Helms
S4E21: Chris Winterbauer & Lizzie Bassett - Starfish Prime

No.

SNAFU with Ed Helms
S4E21: Chris Winterbauer & Lizzie Bassett - Starfish Prime

It's oftentimes created in a way that doesn't make a lot of sense for the specific application that you're using it.

SNAFU with Ed Helms
S4E21: Chris Winterbauer & Lizzie Bassett - Starfish Prime

And then it requires more time by the engineer to debug and to defrag this thing that's been created.

SNAFU with Ed Helms
S4E21: Chris Winterbauer & Lizzie Bassett - Starfish Prime

But

SNAFU with Ed Helms
S4E21: Chris Winterbauer & Lizzie Bassett - Starfish Prime

Because it's been this incredible economic engine, we would be in a recession right now if we're not for AI investment.

SNAFU with Ed Helms
S4E21: Chris Winterbauer & Lizzie Bassett - Starfish Prime

Like that is 100% true.

SNAFU with Ed Helms
S4E21: Chris Winterbauer & Lizzie Bassett - Starfish Prime

And as a result, it is in the best interests of all incumbent parties to pump this as much as possible.

SNAFU with Ed Helms
S4E21: Chris Winterbauer & Lizzie Bassett - Starfish Prime

But it's effectively just management selling it to management.

SNAFU with Ed Helms
S4E21: Chris Winterbauer & Lizzie Bassett - Starfish Prime

These are just the heads of these companies are saying to the heads of other companies, your employees could be five times more effective if they were using AI.

SNAFU with Ed Helms
S4E21: Chris Winterbauer & Lizzie Bassett - Starfish Prime

But the truth is, again, a lot of studies have shown if you use ChatGPT effectively,