Ed Helms

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.

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

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

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

The answer is yes.

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

No.

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

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

But

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

Like that is 100% true.

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

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

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.

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

frequently cognitive abilities decline very rapidly.

It turns out when you stop thinking for yourself, it's harder for you to think for yourself.

And it turns out the brain is a muscle and it turns out that you actually need to use it frequently.

And I think the best thing that a human has is like, you know, semantic awareness and contextual understanding and judgment.