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Ed Zetron

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
350 total appearances

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

You are a cloud storage and collaboration.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

What do you sell?

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

And the answer is nothing.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

They don't sell any agents.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

Oh, agents are going to do this.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

What you are describing is a different kind of technology.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

Just, that's it.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

Like, it's something else that doesn't exist.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

But this is everywhere.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

You go, you look at any consultancy right now, any conference right now, there will be a speech about agents.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

Even Meredith Whitaker, who I deeply, deeply respect, went on stage last year and was like, yeah, AI agents using money, they're booking plane tickets.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

No, they're not.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

They're not.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

That's not happening.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

And I say this again, deeply respect Meredith.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

I said this online, people flip their shit at me.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

It's like, oh, she's directionally correct.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

She's directionally correct.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

It's like, let's be scared of the things that exist, because I think it's perhaps scarier for a different reason that we have large swaths of the tech industry talking about something that doesn't exist.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

Agents don't.