Menu
Sign In Search Podcasts Libraries Charts People & Topics Add Podcast API Blog Pricing

Kevin Weil

πŸ‘€ Speaker
See mentions of this person in podcasts
764 total appearances
Voice ID

Voice Profile Active

This person's voice can be automatically recognized across podcast episodes using AI voice matching.

Voice samples: 1
Confidence: Medium

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

The a16z Show
AI Is Crossing the Frontier of Human Knowledge | Kevin Weil

And you expand it by a couple orders of magnitude, you get an explosion of creativity because lots of people have ideas.

The a16z Show
AI Is Crossing the Frontier of Human Knowledge | Kevin Weil

And sometimes the

The a16z Show
AI Is Crossing the Frontier of Human Knowledge | Kevin Weil

they weren't, they didn't have any route to actually implement those ideas.

The a16z Show
AI Is Crossing the Frontier of Human Knowledge | Kevin Weil

And you go everything from like thinking about people that can start companies now that didn't used to be able to start them all the way through to like, I remember sitting and talking with, this was like a little bit post COVID with this city official somewhere, you know, like small city saying,

The a16z Show
AI Is Crossing the Frontier of Human Knowledge | Kevin Weil

And he was telling me about the kinds of programs that they wish they had been able to run and operate, just like basic kind of information awareness things for the people that lived in this small city.

The a16z Show
AI Is Crossing the Frontier of Human Knowledge | Kevin Weil

It's like, I just didn't have any way to do it.

The a16z Show
AI Is Crossing the Frontier of Human Knowledge | Kevin Weil

The data was sitting there.

The a16z Show
AI Is Crossing the Frontier of Human Knowledge | Kevin Weil

I could draw what I wanted it to look like, but I had no way of getting it done because he wasn't an expert and they didn't have however many thousands of dollars to hire a person to do it for the city.

The a16z Show
AI Is Crossing the Frontier of Human Knowledge | Kevin Weil

Now what would you do?

The a16z Show
AI Is Crossing the Frontier of Human Knowledge | Kevin Weil

You would like enter a prompt into Codex and it would be done.

The a16z Show
AI Is Crossing the Frontier of Human Knowledge | Kevin Weil

So I think these kinds of things are awesome.

The a16z Show
AI Is Crossing the Frontier of Human Knowledge | Kevin Weil

I'll say personally, we just launched Prism like, what, a week ago.

The a16z Show
AI Is Crossing the Frontier of Human Knowledge | Kevin Weil

Anybody see that?

The a16z Show
AI Is Crossing the Frontier of Human Knowledge | Kevin Weil

Use Prism?

The a16z Show
AI Is Crossing the Frontier of Human Knowledge | Kevin Weil

Tried it?

The a16z Show
AI Is Crossing the Frontier of Human Knowledge | Kevin Weil

It's like an AI native environment for scientists to do scientific writing and collaboration.

The a16z Show
AI Is Crossing the Frontier of Human Knowledge | Kevin Weil

So if you're using LaTeX, things like that.

The a16z Show
AI Is Crossing the Frontier of Human Knowledge | Kevin Weil

Because it's a small product in a small team, I've been spending a bunch of time

The a16z Show
AI Is Crossing the Frontier of Human Knowledge | Kevin Weil

like writing code, fixing bugs, et cetera, which I haven't done in a bunch of years.

The a16z Show
AI Is Crossing the Frontier of Human Knowledge | Kevin Weil

And it's super fun.