Simon Willison
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The same way as like when you're working in a company, you don't review every line of code that another team has written, your team depends on.
But you do talk to that team and you make sure that they are making a convincing case to you that the code works well and they've tested and they've covered the bases and so forth.
It's a similar kind of thing and it's so uncomfortable.
Could I tag a prediction onto that, which is that if phones are not the most popular form factor, I think it's going to be the neural link device of some sort.
But if not phones, it has to be that.
Because all of the other form factors, the little bracelets and things you talk to, that's all garbage.
Nobody wants to talk out loud to their computer.
But if you can think to your computer in public, that's the thing that could knock the phone off its pedestal.
So you're betting against the AI labs being able to tamp this stuff under control?
Famously, apparently that wasn't real.
The Target guess someone's pregnant from their purchasing habits.