Nilay Patel

Yeah.

because the AI systems are good at words.

You can either hire a 26-year-old who's been drunk for several years, that was me, and they can be whoever they are as a first-year associate, or you can have a robot do it, and maybe that's the same.

I think the question that I have in sort of a response is I think it will happen very fast, and then it will slow down because everyone will realize

There's not a next generation of people who understand how to control the systems.

And that investment still needs to be made.

And the outcomes of those systems are not as good as we wanted them to be.

Literally just before we sat down, Goldman Sachs announced that it was putting AI into more of its accounting functions and other functions at the company.

And you can see the acceleration.

I think my prediction is we're going to accelerate into it and then we're going to pump the brakes really hard when we realize these systems are not as predictable as we want them to be.

But I will have you back faster than 15 years to see how it's going.

I've loved this conversation.

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