Eric Ries

When I was writing this book, I basically realized at a certain point, I've been working on it for several years, that I was like headed for a true disaster because the book had basically gotten twice or three times as long as it needed to be

because there's so much detail to these techniques that people desperately need to know.

And I had to find a way to cut, I basically had to cut a whole book out of this book to get it to the length and the thing.

And I just like, I was extremely, extremely daunted.

And like, as I was really struggling with this, one of the companies that I had helped found is an AI research lab called Answer AI.

And we have a very contrarian thesis about AI.

We don't think that you should ever use AI to replace human creativity.

You should only use it to amplify human creativity.

And mostly at the time, we had used the technology that we've developed for programming, as everybody's doing.

So we built these really cool tools.

People can go to AnswerEd and learn all about it.

I think it's super cool.

But we had always said at the beginning we were going to try to use it for non-technical tasks.

Also, we had helped start a law firm.

We had done a lot of legal work with it.

And at a certain point, I was like, I wonder if this can help me with writing and editing and researching.

And I was very nervous because if you tell people that you used AI these days to help you write a book, people get super, super agitated about it, which I completely understand.

And I have very mixed feelings about it.

My work was illegally used without my consent to train these models in the first place.

If you ask them to imitate my voice, they do a really good job because my data is all, I'm all over the training data.